For context, this popped up as I went to the youtube homepage. This is absurd. Of course, I have uBlock Origin, so it doesn’t matter to me regardless, but there’s no way to say no.
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Google: “Block ads you don’t like.”
Me: Blocks ad
Google: Ad blocked; 928749638174002 Ads Remaining
Does Google understand consent?
[Yes] / [Maybe Later]
This is a trend I’m seeing everywhere. And I hate it.
No means no, Google.
NO IS NOT AN OPTION, DAVE.
Tech bros and “no understanding of consent”, name a more iconic duo.
“Can I rape you now or in a week?”
Remind me later
That’s actually a great way of viewing it. Feels like an abusive relationship. Reminds me of Windows.
It is abusive. They react exactly the same way an abusive partner does when you try to leave the relationship.
Also, if an individual person collected and compiled data on another person’s activities the way they do, we would call that person a stalker. But somehow a massive corporation doing it is OK.
That’s your notification to update uBlock Origin.
Hey can you remind me how to get ublock origin? I used it years ago but between getting different phones and mandatory software updates, it always gets lost so I don’t remember how I got it. Is it only available on a certain browser? I’m currently using Vivaldi browser for some reason because some tech savvy person recommended it.
No worries! uBlock Origin is still making sure no ads are actually being shown, regardless of if I tell it to remind me in a week or give it my data. But I’ve never seen this popup before, on any social media platform, I’m very curious if they’ll actually ask me again in a week.
If you let the folks know at the uBlock Reddit they will eventually make sure you never see it again. I wish they had a Fediverse presence.
Google makes it sound like more surveillance is actually less surveillance.
And the absence of a “Fuck Off Forever” button of course.
Please use a frontend to one of several YT clones/downloaders/alternatives. I’m sure there’s even a browser add-on that will take you there every time you click a YT link.
Counterpoint: I don’t like any ads, so you’ll let me block all of them, right Google?
No?
Too bad, doing it anyways. :3
Ad starts playing for their paid no-ads experience…
Meanwhile on my account:
“We’re not sure if you’re 18 or not, so we disabled some functionality like personalized ads”
Can’t tell you how to replicate it, because I’m not sure how I’ve ended up there in the first place
That’s Google’s standard and has been for a long time on their services, most Androids and Windows. Saying no to personalised ads doesn’t mean you’re saying no to ads, it means getting ads that aren’t filtered to the genre you respond to. If you use a stock-OS Android it might be worth deleting your ad profile in the Play Store app every now and then.
Fun fact, if you don’t give them a locale (for example, when setting up spyware such as Win11, for language and keyboard choose global, and for timezone choose UTC) they can’t give you a large portion of their bloat.
Duckduckgo browser ftw
They’re giving you a false sense of control so you don’t feel the need to block ads at all.
Sounds like a shitpost
Just use freetube already
