my browser vs Youtube
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Kokubunji, 2023.10.06
Youtube has recently started complaining about the "ad blocker" that is part of my browser. I figured out how to disable it and started a video. Out of curiousity, I enabled the feature again to see how man "ads" that Youtube was trying to send me. It was an eleven minute video, so I expected one ad.
It was 29 "ads". These are not, of course, advertisementss, but spyware like trackers, cross-site cookies, fingerprinters to tell someone what laptop and software I'm using, etc, etc. Or so says my browser. All this crap is native to the platform, which is attempting to extract information about me as I use the site. Time to find an alternative to Youtube, I suspect! Or maybe a proxy or a VPN.