• Synthead@lemmy.world
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    Whatever happens on my browser is client side, which is hardware and software I own. I can make what I own do what I want. It’s a right.

    It’s like Google saying that I can’t skim a magazine in my home, and that I must read the ads. Google can do what they want server-side, and I’ll do what I want client-side.

    • FMT99@lemmy.world
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      They’re not saying you can’t have an adblocker. They’re saying their software will try not to serve you their data if you do, or at least make it inconvenient.

      You have a right to your computer. You do not have a right to their service.

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          Me after reading the 1st comment: “OK. True. Fair.” Me after reading the 2nd comment: “OK. True. Fair.” Me after reading the 3rd comment: “OK. Also true. Also fair.”

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Me reading you:

            Fourth gosh darn level of agree

            I’ll never disable my PiHole or turn off ublock tho

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            There was a rabbi arbitrating a dispute between neighbours. One of them complained that the other one gathers apples that fall off his apple tree and into the other neighbour’s garden. “Those are my apples grown on my tree. He’s stealing them!”

            “You’re right,” says the rabbi. But the other neighbour counters.

            “But the branches of the tree are above my property. If he doesn’t want them to fall on my garden, he can cut off the branch. But he lets them fall into my garden making them my apples.”

            “You’re right,” says the rabbi and adjourns the diapute to be able to think about it. He’s at his wit’s end and tells the whole story to his wife when he gets home.

            “That doesn’t make sense. They can’t both be right.”

            “You’re right.”

    • Wrench@lemmy.world
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      And as a service provider, they can choose to degrade your experience. It goes both ways.

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        Except they want to send you videos. The power is with you, the viewer. Without you, advertisers will have no reason for buying ads. Google can’t collect your data either. Realise that you have this power. Youtube is not like electricity or clean water. We can live without it if push comes to the shove.

        • ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world
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          To be fair, what they want is to make money off of you, be it through metadata or through advertising. It’s just that sending you videos happens to be the model which they use to get the metadata or advertising income.

          • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            If they wanted to make money off of me then they should have kept the Pixel Pass as a thing so I’d have a reason to have YT premium

            Or make YT premium worth it

            But nah, they’d rather ruin the product I was paying for, so now they get nothing. At least then I’m not paying for it to get worse

    • gosling@lemmy.world
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      Let’s just hope they don’t start injecting their ads into the video stream itself