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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For static ads there will eventually be visual adblockers which detect ads not from their source but because they look like ads. (The mandated paid advertisement notice helps).

There is the utility that journalists use to capture YouTube video. A version that captured video content and then filtered ads visually would be unblockable.

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

AI will be good for that. For once it will benefit the people.