YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers

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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
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Youtube is a perfect example of why ad blockers exist. They use ridiculous ad volumes and spy on their users for data to sell.

ive had ads longer than the video i watch and then ads when that video ends

YouTube doesn’t sell user data, the data is for targeting ads.

You realize Google owns YouTube, right? 😆

Google owns YouTube and the AdSense advertising network. They don’t need to sell the data to advertisers because they are the advertiser. It’s more valuable for them to just hoard that for forever and use it for ad targeting.

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