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1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 21:49:37 UTC Electronic Frontier Foundation

   • The Register

   "I have a hard time believing that YouTube would be unable to keep business afloat without the revenue generated by behavioral-tracking advertisements,” EFF’s Daly Barnett told @theregister. “It’s a lazy and deliberately malicious move on their part."
   https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/youtube_ad_blocking/

   • Olle Gladsø (gladso@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 22:18:40 UTC Olle Gladsø

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     @eff @theregister What happened to "don't be evil".
     It is high time that YouTube gets some real competition.

   • personxyz (personxyz@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 01:45:54 UTC personxyz

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     @eff @theregister Let me explain why I think it's sh***y behaviour:

     1. The majority is still not using an ad-blocker so it's not going to be the major revenue boost at the cost of behaviour tracking.
     2. Use of ad-blocker was recommended by the FBI due to malicious ads.
     3. I would have watched the ads (1-2 ads per video), but they have increased this number to (3-4 ads per video). This much as is way too much.

   • aproposnix (aproposnix@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 05:18:41 UTC aproposnix

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     @eff @theregister can someone with coding skills, please help develop a peertube client for AndroidTV (esp. something similar to SmartTube)? Please.

     We need federated alternatives to YouTube.

     #peertube #degoogle

   • RickTimmis (ricktimmis@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 06:32:04 UTC RickTimmis

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     @eff: Recently the amount of Ads on platforms like YouTube has been driving me mad. I realise it cost money to run these platforms, but I wish they'd get better targeting. No!! "I Really am NOT interested in currency trading Forex!!!"