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Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU (eupolicy.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ugjka@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

selling ads was just icing

You're talking about these as if they're separate things. Literally no company in existence harvests your data for any reason other than to serve better ads or to drive business decisions internally. Nobody gives a shit about your data otherwise. Ads are literally the only reason.

as if you were a tin-foil-hat wearing maniac

I mean... If the shoe fits, man.