Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history…

  • Tsunami45chan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Same I delete all my history in clean state on youtube. I hate seeng videos thay I’ve already watched before.

    • Campa@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      But it won’t work, these are centralized platforms, which means whatever you searched, or typted in, they will collect these histories as data into their central server.

      • Jaggle@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Exactly! Erasing your history just means YOU can’t see it anymore.

    • mvilain@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices. It still did a pretty good job of showing me stuff I was interested in watching.

      Then on Oct 1, they threw up a “You’re using an Ad Blocker” overlay on videos. I’d use my trusty Overlay Remover plugin to remove the annoying javascript graphic and watch what I wanted. I didn’t have to click the X to dismiss the obnoxious page.

      Last week, they started placing a timer with the X so you had to wait 5 seconds for the X to appear so you could dismiss blocking graphic.

      Today, there was a new graphic. It allowed you to view three videos before you had to turn off your Ad Blocker. I viewed a video 3 times just to see what happens.

      Now all I see is this: “Ad Blockers violate Youtube’s Terms of Service”

      Google has out and out made it a violation of their ToS to have an ad blocker to view Youtube. Or you can pay them $$$.

      I ban such sites from my systems by replacing their DNS name in my hosts file routed to 127.0.0.1 which means I can’t view the site. I have quite a few banned sites now.