How Retailers Use Personalized Prices

Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by jstanley on Sunday October 22, 2017 @08:49AM (#15526572)

I refuse to participate in YouTube's opaque ad selection system. If the video has an ad, even if it's skippable after 5s, I don't watch the video.

I very rarely get shown ads.

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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by Spivak on Sunday October 22, 2017 @09:25AM (#15526712)

Why not get an ad blocker? Good for attention, privacy, and security.

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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by jstanley on Sunday October 22, 2017 @09:28AM (#15526726)

I do on my computer, but I watch a lot of YouTube on my phone.

I ran AdBlock Plus for a while until I discovered that it runs as an open proxy, allowing anyone on the same wifi network as you to fetch content through your phone.

In combination with a VPN client that routes everything over the VPN, I considered that an unacceptable risk.

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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by Spivak on Sunday October 22, 2017 @09:31AM (#15526739)

Firefox for Android has extension supprort and in particular uBlock origin support. Same as your desktop browser.

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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by muxator on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:18PM (#15529302)

Could you elaborate on the "open proxy" part? I now switched to unlock, but still miss adblock plus interface. This could help me not switching back

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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by fjsolwmv on Sunday October 22, 2017 @11:57AM (#15527348)

How about paying for Youtube Red?

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Re:How Retailers Use Personalized Prices by detaro on Sunday October 22, 2017 @12:32PM (#15527562)

Not available on my continent. Always wondered why they didn't roll that out further.

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