Stumblinbear

They're taking information from the page they served you and runs the code they wrote to read the page they served you to ensure what they served you is actually what you're seeing

You're accessing the site, you're continuing to use the site, you are implicitly agreeing to allow the code they run to modify the page you're on

I fail to see how it specifically being used to check that ads are displaying is any different from code running normally in your browser to change the page without refreshing the page entirely

More importantly and actually on subject: how is this immoral? What moral code are they breaking here? You can argue legal semantics, but legality is not morality. You made a moral argument. How is this immoral?

"Nobody" is a high bar you've set for yourself. There are many people in this thread with the same argument.

How very mature

Assuming it didn't exist for months or years before this. As far as I know, blocking ads has always been against ToS.

which makes it impossible to watch the videos anywhere but on their platform tho

The creators are free to upload content anywhere they want without restrictions. It's not YouTube's fault that they don't.

selling ads was just icing

You're talking about these as if they're separate things. Literally no company in existence harvests your data for any reason other than to serve better ads or to drive business decisions internally. Nobody gives a shit about your data otherwise. Ads are literally the only reason.

as if you were a tin-foil-hat wearing maniac

I mean... If the shoe fits, man.

Google DOES make money from ads. A metric tuckton of it. Why the fuck else would they need your data other than to serve better ads???

RustRover isn't ready for actual usage, I've tried it