Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

  • q47tx@lemmy.worldBEnglish
    261·
    1 year ago

    Imagine using the official youtube website. Piped and Invidious FTW.

    • specfreq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      I simply open up YouTube+Ublock in Firefox on my smartphone.

      I actually like the personalized video recommendations from being signed in sometimes, but I still don’t like my data being sold. I use both.

      • MataVatnik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        Same. Firefox +uBlock on mobile. The YouTube app actually kinda sucks. Never used it