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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by jacooper on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:46PM (#36564389)
Nope thats not true, Adblockers stop a lot of ad tracking, blocking tracking pixels, scripts, telemetry and so on.
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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by acdha on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:58PM (#36564518)
Sure - on third party sites where Google can’t see the traffic. Do you really think YouTube refuses to share that data internally with Google’s core business?
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