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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by jackfoxy on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:16PM (#30215487)
I figured this out about a year ago. As well as ad-free viewing I get YouTube Music, so I don't need to pay for an additional music service.

Now, if they would only stop with the censorship. When in the history of mankind have the censors ever been the good guys?

Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by gambiting on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:23PM (#30215562)
>>When in the history of mankind have the censors ever been the good guys?

I mean.....removing pedo or gore content from Youtube is still censorship. Just the kind that we probably all agree with. The way you view censorship(and censors) mostly depends on whether they remove content you want removed or not, and that line can massively vary even in western societies(for instance I love the fact that in Germany any nazi-related content is actually criminal, but many Americans gasp at the very concept - however the line is there even in America, but it's just placed in at a different point).

Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by boplicity on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:34PM (#30215669)
> When in the history of mankind have the censors ever been the good guys?

It's not called censorship when it is the right and reasonable thing to do. In many cases, it is simply decision making done collectively by society. For example, we don't tend to allow blatantly religious proselytizing in public schools by teachers. Is that censorship? Maybe? Is it controversial? Not really.

Education is actually a good example -- as decisions are constantly made in terms of what is and is not made available to students. It's easy to find decisions that are blatantly wrong -- for example, banning "A Big Mooncake for Little Star," which is a book about a little kid eating a cake. (But there are other choices that are obviously correct, such as banning books in school libraries that are blatantly misleading.

Whether something is considered censorship is often a matter of perspective.

Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by markstos on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:24PM (#30215564)
It doesn’t feel that great to help a company that’s dominating video hosting to help them muscle into the music streaming business through a bundle offer. But otherwise, yes: we might all be better off if Google made more from subscriptions and less from ads.
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by robrenaud on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:06PM (#30217237)
Since the end of WW2, Germany has made spreading Nazi propaganda and denying the holocaust illegal.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/germanys-laws-ant...