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YouTube runs experiment addressing users with ad blocker
tom66:
--- Quote from: hovadmartin on October 23, 2023, 11:38:21 am ---
--- Quote from: rdl on October 23, 2023, 11:11:57 am ---I'm pretty sure they'd end up knowing way, way more about me than they do now.
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What did you mean by that? That they would collect your personal data (which they do anyway) if you pay a monthly fee?
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Well, for one, they'd have a credit/bank card linked to your account. Which would give them legal name, postal address, and a way to tie your identity up with other purchases and services via companies Google has ownership of.
Karel:
The Windows Phone returns from grave as an anti-ad-blocker blocker on YouTube
https://www.techspot.com/news/100583-windows-phone-returns-grave-anti-ad-blocker-blocker.html
wilfred:
I tried installing "user agent switcher" extension into Edge and it worked for me selecting Windows phone. I finally hit a brick wall where it was a choice of allow ads or buy premium. I may eventually buy premium but not just yet. It works on a per Tab basis so it is not disruptive for other tabs.
I have an Android media box with an app (not from the playstore) that allows me to watch on the couch without ads.
For now this agent switch works so I'll let it play out.
And I can download videos if I know I want to watch the whole thing.
I found Windows Phone on WIN10 and Edge will play the video but I get nothing else. No comments, description, subscribed channels nothing. Just the video. So I may tire of the switching back and forth.
I did try switching the user agent to an older firefox string that immediately got a message screen saying that browser version was out of date and that did give me a more normal looking youtube screen. remember I'm still on Edge browser it is just sending a string telling YT I'm using Firefox, or Windows Phone.
My actual Windows Phone is pretty useless these days for watching YT. And it dies in 7 months when the 3G network dies. Ironically it does show Youtube ads.
I'm still hoping to wean myself off a lot of the YT channels I watch too much of, so some self flagellation is in order.
So there is something to try until you get sick of it and buy a subscription.
MT:
I found out that if you hover with mouse over "videos containers" and let them start playing in the box for 30 sec or so and then select the video to watch in larger screen format
there is no anti ad blocking popping up............so far it works for the last week. Im using Vivaldi browser for this experiment.
Karel:
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law
Last week, privacy advocate Alexander Hanff filed a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC)
decrying YouTube's deployment of JavaScript code to detect the use of ad blocking extensions by website visitors.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/26/privacy_advocate_challenges_youtube/
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