YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet - eviltoast

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.

    • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Not always. Adnauseam makes the anti-adblock bullshit think you’re clicking on ads.

      There’s also adguard for desktop which filters ads through a mechanism that’s outside of your browser, which makes it much more difficult for things running inside web pages to fuck with it.