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You can have my eyeballs on your ads when you out then from my cold, dead head.
Ads are brainwashing. They sell companies access to your brain case and it's always been a disturbing behavior.
I already try to consciously not click YouTube links in my primary browser to avoid this. I load them in a backup browser with no privacy tools or, much more often, download them directly for local viewing. Fuck Google and their ads.
So I would like someone to maybe try to confirm this, but I've been rightclicking and then opening in private browser if there is something I want to check out but don't want to dominate my feed.
However, I've been finding that I still am sometimes getting these things presented to me as if I care. I am beginning to suspect that YT is either a) tracking mouse coordinates and clicks, and using these or b) some kind of ip/ browser based finger printing that gets around private/ incognito browsing.
I'm on firefox, and running pop_os, so if any one else could weigh in anecdotally, I'm very interested.
Private mode deletes cookies and browsing history on your device, it has no impact on the amount of information sent out to browsers and your ISP.
Okay but so how is activity I'm doing in private mode relating back to non-private mode? Are they tracking mouse activity? Is this browser finger printing? How would I be able to figure that out?
I'm not entirely sure how they do it, but I do know alot of information is relayed to websites that can be used to fingerprint and track you. Even if you aren't logged in they know where you are and what device you are using. Alot of this depends on how hardened the browser you are using is, because its entirely up to the browser to block this information.
You can try to confuse the data a bit with a VPN, but I'm not sure if a VPN alone counts for much these days.
If you really want no fingerprint you can try either of these two technologies:
TOR is a way to browse the internet that makes it very hard to fingerprint you. The network's bandwidth is limited and there are people in oppressive regimes who legitimately need this though, so I think it would be a waste to use it for regular browsing.
WHONIX is used by Edward Snowden himself. Its an OS within a virtual machine that is entirely reset everytime its run. It has alot of built-in privacy tools, but its not very convenient to use.
I personally use Brave with as many shield options on as possible, alongside a VPN when I think its necessary. On mobile I sometimes use Kiwi, which is unfortunately no longer available. Its the only browser I've found that actually masks whether your device is a phone or PC.
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Pretty sure there were patents where they record audio and camera to detect if the user is present to pause and resume ads
fuck youtube. use a front end instead.
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Seriously, I love the concept of NewPipe but the low resolution bugs me too much. I'm holding out with Firefox and uBlock as long as I can.
And guess what, if it gave me an ad free experience at an affordable price I actually wouldn't mind paying for YT Premium.
Oh yeah, definitely your way on pc. I was thinking my phone. And, i can adjust the resolution... It ain't 4k, but i don't care
I will never pay for Youtube or accept ads. Yes, even if it would bankrupt them. I am more than willing to let it all burn.
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AI has to advance to a point it can reliably ID someone using the camera despite different models and potential obstructions.
This scenario is obviously incredibly unlikely and some dystopian shit. They'll make the ads interactive first, if anything, the interaction being a requirement to move on. In either scenario, I'm just leaving. I pay for Amazon Prime. The delivery service works really well where I live. I won't go on the video service because there might be ads. I am so turned off by ads, it makes it super easy to just not use shit.
Where YouTube Premium, and Spotify, and any number of services that I pay for (on a family plan I share with five friends), differ from Amazon is that none of them are tied to some other valuable service. If any of them hit me with ads, I'm out, ezpz. I was 13 in 2020. I pirated 'everything, because I didn't have any money. I don't pirate anymore because I am 37, and I have money, and I have no problem paying for good services. But I'll equate not having money at 13 with refusing to pay for ads at 37, in that pirating is the solution to both problems.
I was 13 in 2020
I am 37
That's not how time works...
Ha, it's definitely not, but I can't go back and change my comment now, so I must accept the shame.
Hopefully by that point, it can also be used to generate a fake video file of "someone paying attention" to output to a virtual camera :)
It would be the same technology, because both use cases would require AI to have built an accurate model of what human faces look like