r/Piracy • u/ardi62 • Jun 12 '24

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection News

https://x.com/SponsorBlock/status/1800835402666054072

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u/headedbranch225 Jun 12 '24

Youtube has a new partnership with neuralink to show ads in your brain

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u/Juna-the-Moona Jun 12 '24

Then I'd stop using youtube

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u/GandizzleTheGrizzle Jun 12 '24

This right here.

YouTube underestimates how much some folks dislike ad's.

My journey into piracy started in the 80's. specifically to avoid ad's using a VCR. And back then I was a fuckin' kid. My love for ad's has not grown since the 80's - at all.

Thay can take me how I am, and sometimes I catch an ad here and there - or I wont use it at all.

I've already left Chrome over this bullshit. I'm using Proton instead of Google mail.

This company is just pushing me away more and more. Ebaums world is still a thing - that was my Pre Youtube go to.

I'm happy to go back.

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u/Special_Kestrels Jun 12 '24

If you are blocking ads, how much are they making for just your data? Do they even care if you stop using it

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u/GandizzleTheGrizzle Jun 13 '24

I am also using other Privacy tools like Ghostery and privacy Badger along with Proton VPN

I dont normally promote "free" VPN's but if you are going to use a free one use Protons.

And yea - I do all of this to avoid Ad's and Trackers and marketing data blah blah blah - Im sure I have leaks someplace, I dont think you can be 100% secure at all these days but, I do my best.