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.

  • @malchior@aussie.zoneEnglish
    20•7 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.

      • Final RemixEnglish
        4•7 months ago

        That’s getting harder though, at least in my experience. Circa 2010, it was music and shit everywhere. Now it’s slimmer pickin’s, it seems.

        • @CrowAirbrush@lemm.eeEnglish
          2•7 months ago

          I’ve tried torrents but those seemed to all be dead ends, i found another website that uses some backdoor from a streaming service and the file info is actually correct but you get songs 1 by 1. Which takes a lot of time.

        • KeithEnglish
          1•7 months ago

          If you just want YTM for free there’s beatbump on web and Innertune or ViMusic on android

    • @malchior@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1•7 months ago

      If only there was a place to buy DRM free music in the file type I want for use in whatever device I want also for movies.