YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues::Ad blockers are firewalls for our sanity – turning them off is madness
Google in general doesn’t give a flying fuck about your privacy
EDIT: actually, they do care so much about it being shared with them :P
Oh, they care!
They care about invading it for profit :)
Oh yes it does, it cares about your privacy being shared with them.
Yep, it is one of the main reasons I have been switching away from Google products. Proton Mail for email, for example. I have no desire to give Google every detail of what I do online.
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No fucking way, what a revelation
What? No shit! That’s crazy. Since when?
Does this surprise anyone?
I don’t think any big corporate company cares about your privacy at all. They just want revenue.
In other news, air contains oxygen.
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Google and privacy goes together like lithium and water
[Company] cares more about its shareholders and profits more than [the environment, safety, its employees or customers, the economy, etc.] Not sure why this would be a revelation to anyone.
YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues
Duh. It’s a Google product, what do you except?
Um welcome to capitalism.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Disable your ad blocker or pay for Premium, warns a new message being shown to an unsuspecting test audience, with the barely hidden subtext of “you freeloading scum.”
The reason YouTube has been dabbling with its own “Unblock Or Eff Off” strategy instead of bringing down the universal banhammer is that it knows how much it will upset the balance of the ecosystem.
Google has revenues in the hundreds of billions of dollars, while publishers struggle to survive, and users have to wear a metaphorical hazmat suit to stay sane.
The pre-internet days saw advertising directly support publishers who knew how to attract the right audiences who would respond well to the right adverts.
YouTube’s business model is a microcosm of the bigger ad tech world, where it basically needs to spam millions to generate enough results for its advertisers.
Of course, this wouldn’t provide the revenues to YouTube or the ad tech business obtainable by being spammy counterfeits of responsible companies with a lock on the market.
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Well, caring less for your privacy means more revenue for them, so yes.
Just pay for the service. Then you can run all the blockers you want.