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.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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    8 months ago

    It’s taken me about 2 years to degoogle as much as I have. I’ve moved google photos to dropbox (soon NextCloud), gmail to fastmail, search to Kagi, music to Tidal, docs to NextCloud, and (most recently) youtube to Invidious/Freetube. None of it was particularly hard, though switching from gmail took ages. Still using android, but that’s next on the chopping block.

      • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Yes. I see it like using a custom android ROM, it couldn’t exist without Google but its the most private I can be while not going without. I do watch as many creators as possible via Nebula, though.