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YouTube gets more aggressive in pushing adblock warnings with countdown timer (www.neowin.net)
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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Botnet = Google/Alphabet. It has simply too much control over video sharing (and other things).

[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is it a botnet?

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Botnet" is just a pejorative nod against Alphabet and the fact that, for all intents and purposes, it controls your computer quite a bit. It is not a real botnet.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Idk, just seems like an odd word choice when it's obviously not a botnet.

And it doesn't control your computer. It spies on you a lot but it doesn't actually control your computer.