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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by kart23 on Friday June 05, 2020 @06:52PM (#23434910)
I'm still confused at what exactly they're trying to accomplish.

So youtube and google drive basically die, some of the most useful free services available right now. I think this does more bad than good and I don't think any American citizen would support this given the effects.

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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by manfredo on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:08PM (#23435040)
YouTube is taking a lot of ad money that would go to cable and newspapers. People's attention is finite. Less competition for eyeballs.
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by bagacrap on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:31PM (#23435624)
I don't really want to go back to watching ads for heartburn meds and Chevy pickups. At least Google shows me something I might be interested in.
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by yokto on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:52PM (#23435329)
I'd rather have people pay for decent financially sustainable products rather than fueling surveillance capitalism and monopolies with their data.
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by bagacrap on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:32PM (#23435630)
You can pay for YouTube and it will remove ads. i don't think drive has ads to begin with.
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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by nabaraz on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:34PM (#23436016)
..and you still tracked and your data is mined like anyone else.

There is just no incentive to pay money to big corporations now. I was paying $14.99 for play music and youtube red (ad free). At this time, I don't want my data to be collected and profiled against. But that is not possible. Same thing goes for Washington Post and NY times.

I canceled my subscriptions and enabled ad block via Pi hole.

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Re:U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech busi... by bozzcl on Saturday June 06, 2020 @02:08PM (#23441113)
If you wanna take it a step further, setting up Wireguard on a Raspberry Pi is super easy. it gives you remote access to your PiHole. Look up PiVPN.
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