Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
by kawogi on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:31PM
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I'd be ok woth paying for their service, as we use youtube a lot. But youtube forces you to create a google account and stay logged in. This way they can easily track almost everything you do on the web, and I'm definitely not ok with paying for being tracked.
If this was a youtube-only account (as it was in the past) then I'll immediately start paying for their service.
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Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
by crop_rotation on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:35PM
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This is a fair point. I too would appreciate some way to have an isolated YouTube account.
Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
by lamontcg on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:46PM
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Firefox containers, set one up for youtube.
Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
by justin_oaks on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @09:24PM
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For Chrome you can setup up different profiles. It's not as nice as containers since separate profiles force you to have different Chrome windows, but it gets the job done.
I have a Facebook-only Chrome profile that keeps Facebook from tracking me all over the web.
Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
by dogleash on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @10:51PM
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That's my beef too. I already pay for twitch turbo which I find to be less valuable, so it's not the cost. I just don't want to be logged into youtube all the time. And I'll never log into my google account from a work computer.