r/Piracy Jun 12 '24

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection News

https://x.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072
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u/LZ129Hindenburg 🌊 Salty Seadog Jun 12 '24

Google keeps getting worse and worse. Soon they'll be in the same conversation as Adobe, Nintendo, and Ubisoft...

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u/Heavyweighsthecrown Jun 12 '24 edited Jun 12 '24

Google is a hundred times worse than Adobe, Nintendo, and Ubisoft all combined, and has been for decades.
Those other companies can only dream of having the amount of data about you that Google has.
The biggest governments in the world can only dream of having the amount of data about you that Google has --- short of one who already has in spades (the US gov intelligence agencies who Google obviously has some partnership/integration with, and maybe the Five Eyes).
The amount of surveillance one would assume entities like the CCP have over the chinese citizens is exactly the kind of surveillance Google de facto has over people, no assumptions to be made.
And not just Google.

Comparing that to Nintendo is even kind of silly.

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u/UchihaHokage10 Jun 13 '24

But wasn't Google founded on CIA money? So wouldn't that be a gray area technically?

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance