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by kergonath 280 days ago
That’s the thing: I cannot. The whole web is infested with their trackers and their ads.

And there is no alternative to YouTube, for example, including for videos that were uploaded before they went completely overboard with ads.

So no, I am not giving up on my ad blockers.
1 comments
charcircuit 280 days ago
>The whole web is infested with their trackers and their ads.

This is an exaggeration. There are ad free alternatives.

>And there is no alternative to YouTube

Youtube has a subscription you can pay for no ads. There other video sites who charge a subscription instead of offering ads too.

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kergonath 280 days ago
> This is an exaggeration. There are ad free alternatives.

Again, their (mostly Google and Facebook’s, but there are many companies tracking me with whom I never had direct contact) trackers are all over the web and I see them in the blocked list very regularly on websites that have nothing to do with them.

> Youtube has a subscription you can pay for no ads. There other video sites who charge a subscription instead of offering ads too.

Yeah, cool. They changed their terms of use, and I changed mine. Happy to negotiate when they are available.

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