Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

Another great article from 404 Media highlighting the power that the tech giants have amassed over how how we use the internet.

This brings me, I think, to the elephant in the room, which is the fact that Google has its hands on quite literally every aspect of this entire saga as a vertically integrated adtech giant.

This extreme power over the adtech and online advertising ecosystem is one of the subjects of an FTC antitrust suit against Google.

  • Rambomst@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I just got an email from YouTube, my premium price is going up by almost double…

    • malchior@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Same. It is no longer worth it, I’ll be sad to lose my music streaming, but there are other pathways that some may consider unethical.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      If you subscribe to premium using an Indian IP address, for example, you’ll get it for like a buck a month

    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      YouTube Music is no longer optional. It’s now bundled into the basic features of Premium and Google uses that to justify the insane price hike. Their argument is that it’s cheaper than before for the dozen-or-so people that had subscribed to both YT Music and Premium. All others now “save” on the YT Music subscription, the fact that nobody saves anything by paying for a service they don’t need is completely lost on them. Just corporate greed and pushing the monopoly a bit further, nothing to see here.