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.

  • malchior@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Same. It is no longer worth it, I’ll be sad to lose my music streaming, but there are other pathways that some may consider unethical.

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        1 year ago

        That’s getting harder though, at least in my experience. Circa 2010, it was music and shit everywhere. Now it’s slimmer pickin’s, it seems.

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          1 year ago

          I’ve tried torrents but those seemed to all be dead ends, i found another website that uses some backdoor from a streaming service and the file info is actually correct but you get songs 1 by 1. Which takes a lot of time.

        • Keith@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          If you just want YTM for free there’s beatbump on web and Innertune or ViMusic on android

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      1 year ago

      If only there was a place to buy DRM free music in the file type I want for use in whatever device I want also for movies.