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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (12 children)

If you log in, know that Google knows you're using MicroG amd has the capacity to ban your account.

Not heard of any bans yet, but I'm probably close to ditching revanced soon because this is my primary email address and Google is getting more and more aggressive

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Look in to switching to a privacy respecting email. It's not for everyone, but i am very happy with the Proton suite of apps.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    I'd advise against Proton - they're not good at actually respecting privacy and require a premium subscription to access your email over SMTP (making it much harder to switch away and locking you into their client).

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Email isn't private. They don't scan your email for ads which is about all you can ask for

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    ??

    They strip all the tracking from the emails. I'll unsubscribe from ads, or turn off compromised addresses, but them not scanning my emails is a plus.

    How is it not private?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Please expound on your thoughts. I happen to be a paid subscriber, cause I want to support them and I appriciate the extra features I get. So the issues with the free accounts arent a problem for me, but my friends who use the free account don't seem to have any complaints.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Even Walmart lets shoplifters return to their stores after like three years. Think about that, if you owned a shop, what would mean to welcome back as a customer someone who previously stole from you?

    Not that blocking ads is stealing, that they need us a lot more than we need them. Can build the nicest, fanciest store around with all the best things for sale, doesn't mean shit if nobody shops there.

    If the experience gets any worse, I just won't watch YouTube videos. I already watch way less than I used to when it was a cool video hosting platform, before it started enshitifying.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've been using microg for ages both for voiced before it got shutdown by Google and for revanced

    Nothing has happened to my account

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yes, I said that, but there's still the possibility. It's explicitly against their terms of service and when you log into an account specifically to break their terms of service, they reserve the right to tell you to go fuck yourself

    Just because they haven't yet doesn't mean they won't. We're entering a new era of enshitification

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