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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by stirfrykitty on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:48PM (#19444022)
Block the ads. You have every right to do so. There is zero obligation to watch ads. If a company like Google can afford to operate a service like YouTube, then putting it up in the first place is the cost of doing business. I happily block ads on all devices I use and am in control over, even at work.

Pi-hole, uBlock Origin (even kills the adblock detectors), Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes, Tracking Token Stripper, Webmail Ad Blocker, etc.

Ads. What ads? You have a VPN set up on your home network, you can pass your mobile phone through it so as not to get ads even while away.

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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by freeflight on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @05:03PM (#19446892)
Haven't found a good way to do that on my tablet (iPad), yet. I have tried adding known ad-networks to my router-blocklist, it does not seem to impact YouTube at all.

I guess I really gotta look into building myself a Pi-hole.

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Re:Google hit with €1.5B fine from EU over advertising by stirfrykitty on Friday March 22, 2019 @08:41AM (#19461974)
https://github.com/rajannpatel/Pi-Hole-PiVPN-on-Google-Compu...
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