▲ 1342 ▼ Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. (sh.itjust.works) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world 424 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://files.catbox.moe/a6111d.png / https://nitter.poast.org/LinusTech/status/1825956050685800834 If you go the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY. You will see it's gone. So Youtube being Youtube. Here's a Odysee mirror of the video, https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0.
[+] Woovie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Unchanged3656@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago I did not agree to anything. When I open the site they just start serving videos to me (even autoplay is activated by default). If they don't want me to watch their videos without ads they should stop serving them to me (ie, put them behind a paywall) permalink fedilink source parent [–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Ownership implies a device should be controlled by the user. I don't just mean not playing adverts but how about not recording my voice (or other data) to send it to Google servers for them to keep and exploit? You're free to believe in this implied agreement but I doubt that's in your best interests. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Unchanged3656@infosec.pub 6 points 2 years ago I did not agree to anything. When I open the site they just start serving videos to me (even autoplay is activated by default). If they don't want me to watch their videos without ads they should stop serving them to me (ie, put them behind a paywall) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Ownership implies a device should be controlled by the user. I don't just mean not playing adverts but how about not recording my voice (or other data) to send it to Google servers for them to keep and exploit? You're free to believe in this implied agreement but I doubt that's in your best interests. permalink fedilink source parent