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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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[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm okay with the less amount of content. Frankly, I mindlessly spent hours scrolling through "content" on reddit, and feeling no satisfaction. At least the content here is more relevant.

More people would mean more memes and rage bait. No thanks.

[–] Littleborat@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You just need to curate your feed like anywhere else. Who can really stand the main page of reddit or yt or anything really?

Reddit made it so hard to use on mobile that I only check it on the weekend on my pc.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, I used to do that. But then the admins took over some of my curated subs, e.g. programming subs, when the mods refuse to open them up. So now I don't go to those anymore.

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean subreddits like Oculus and Virtual Reality and I am sure many other niches are missing on Lemmy or very quiet.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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