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nixCraft 🐧

For those asking, I logged into my YouTube premium for ad-free access, yet I'm getting 10-20% of ads blocked and another time popup asking to turn off the Ad blocker. LOL. I don't know why Google thinks it is necessary to show Ads in paid options. Tracking never stops. Original thread: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1112 This is why I have trust issues with Google, Microsoft, Apple, and other companies. Their constant display of ads or tracking your every movement is beyond greedy.

@nixCraft uBlock might be blocking other things besides ads

@nixCraft I never had youtube complaining about adblock+ in combination with ghostery.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social uBlock Origin is a content blocker, not an ad blocker. It'll block anything on the block lists so that typically includes tracking and analytics aside from ads. It really depends on what lists you have enabled.

@karebu @nixCraft

I think the point being here that as paying customers, we are still treated like cattle. Sure, they don't staff your 3 min video with 2 min of ads but that's all you are paying for. They are still tracking you as before, they are still selling this data.

Big tech has zero respect for us as people and sadly most of us just think it aint no thing, I GoTz NufIn tO HiDE RHEEEE

@nixCraft wait like banner ads? or are those tracking things that don't display visible ads?

@nixCraft
because Google is looking more and more like a 💩 ?

@nixCraft still getting ads while literally paying for the service is an incredible reason why we should all be using adblockers

@ari @nixCraft join a good instance of peertube for example.

@nixCraft Can you show us ublock expanded. I'm curios of what is being blocked.

@nixCraft there is no point in subscribing to premium...
in principle, no wonder. Another example of a similar:
buying Microsoft products, I become a source of telemetry + tester of released updates.
After money, the next stage is power...

@nixCraft

Try FF with uBlockOrigin and PrivacyBadger.

You will be surprised.

@nixCraft I wouldn't even mind paying for ad-free, just as I pay for some other online content I use, but every time a big tech company does this it feels they inevitably roll out ads again anyways.

@nixCraft I would be happy to pay Google for their services, but enshitification on their part is astonishingly bad

@nixCraft havent had any such issues with dns ad blocking. Gave up on browser based ad blocking once i tried nextdns. Recommended.