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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      1 year ago

      I simply open up YouTube+Ublock in Firefox on my smartphone.

      I actually like the personalized video recommendations from being signed in sometimes, but I still don’t like my data being sold. I use both.

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        1 year ago

        Same. Firefox +uBlock on mobile. The YouTube app actually kinda sucks. Never used it