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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 year ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That video of some idiot eating tidepods or whatever the current thing is? They could find somebody else that will host

Oh no! Censorship /s

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No need to be sarcastic, in my kingdom I'll be absolute ruler and "censor" and suppress others as I see fit.

And everybody else is free to do the same and tell me to feck off.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think censorship in the Fediverse works because you can always find a host which aligns with your ideology. Bad ideas automatically die out if the overwhelming majority of people stop spreading it, not because a giant megacorp decides it's not a good message to show to their shareholders.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 1 points 1 year ago

But good ideas can be hidden from users if an admin bans instances or remote users. It's a new type of censorship.