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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do actually see a need for you to switch, Opera is one of the shadiest browsers owned by some weird Chinese company. It collects all of your data and sends it right to China, I wouldn't be comfortable using this, it's far worse than Chrome or even Edge. They also run really weird ads and marketing campaigns, just use Firefox or LibreWolf, the latter has uBlock Origin preinstalled and it's pre-configured for maximum privacy. I can only recommend it!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean I don't really care if China has my data. Rather them than a US company. Not much china's government can do about me (and not like I'm gonna be some high priority target for them so, whatever. If they wanted my data that bad they could just buy it from every American company anyways. )

Understandable though if you don't want china having your data. I just have mostly given up on caring about it. Someone is gonna have my data anyways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its not the point of China having your data. Its the point of opera sells that data, and they have it in the first place

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not everyone cares so much about that.

Someone knowing things about me in general is not a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't fund their army with your data dude. Switch to some Firefox fork ASAP.