I often see the sentiment that YouTube and adblockers will be forever locked in a cat-and-mouse game. However, for many years now, Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking on desktop web.
What is stopping YouTube from replicating Twitch’s advertising strategy of embedding ads directly into their videos?
To that they will immediately answer - but do you want all your youtube habits to be in the hands of the government?
They already are
People out there not really understanding the cooperative roles of the state, government and capitial under capitialism to reinforce bougerois rule.
Yes if it’s good government. Of course there’s problem of getting good government that won’t abuse anything.
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The company anonymises your data and sells it to get the most value out of it.
The state on the other hand will eventually use it to spy on you and controll you if necessary.
I feel like a lot of people don’t realize this, keeping your data a secret is these ad platform’s top priority, knowing what you like (for highly targeted ads) while others don’t is one of the biggest ways they make money