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I think youtube will probably revert this after they look at their metrics and see their user engagement dropping. That little warning is so asinine too, "We're gonna ban your account if you block 3 more ads!", people are probably more pissed then they would be because youtube decided threats would work best in garnering compliance Advertising execs are the scum of the earth
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Grey Cat posted:Are they actually giving a ban warning? Mine never has a countdown. Yeah, I ignored a "youtube does not allow ads" one a few times and I got a new one telling me that if I blocked three more ads they were gonna prevent me from watching any more videos on youtube. I was barely paying attention to the the pop-ups until that one, then I looked it up and it turns out they actually have blocked some people's accounts for blocking ads. As in, those people can't watch youtube videos on their accounts anymore. No idea if it's permanent or if it's just a time-out. Of course people have already come up with plenty of ways to circumvent it, so it was easy to get around it, but apparently now youtube is engaged in some kind of ad-blocker arms race. It's still easy to get around though.
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hbag posted:when i go to a shopping site i search for the thing i want to buy and then i buy it. why does google need to know my browsing history for this? if google knows your personal browsing history they can make a prediction about what you are going to do next/what emotional state you are in based off your activity they can then check to see if their prediction is right by monitoring your activity once they get good at predicting your behavior they can sell off those predictions to marketers and political organizations so that those actors can more effectively manipulate you basically the idea is that they get to know you better than you know yourself and then they can guarantee sales/political engagement to the people interested in foisting those things upon you it's still a work in progress but they're getting better at it every day
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