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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 year ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's taken me about 2 years to degoogle as much as I have. I've moved google photos to dropbox (soon NextCloud), gmail to fastmail, search to Kagi, music to Tidal, docs to NextCloud, and (most recently) youtube to Invidious/Freetube. None of it was particularly hard, though switching from gmail took ages. Still using android, but that's next on the chopping block.

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Invidious and Freetube are still YouTube though?

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. I see it like using a custom android ROM, it couldn't exist without Google but its the most private I can be while not going without. I do watch as many creators as possible via Nebula, though.