• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Can’t possibly make it worse than shoving ads from hate groups. On my computer, I use Firefox with adblock, but on my phone and tablet I had been using the YouTube app until a few days ago. Google decided to show me a PragerU ad on mobile, so I decided to switch to Firefox mobile to watch YouTube. And the app either moved or removed the ‘don’t show this ad’ selection.

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        1 year ago

        If you log in, know that Google knows you’re using MicroG amd has the capacity to ban your account.

        Not heard of any bans yet, but I’m probably close to ditching revanced soon because this is my primary email address and Google is getting more and more aggressive

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          1 year ago

          Look in to switching to a privacy respecting email. It’s not for everyone, but i am very happy with the Proton suite of apps.

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            I’d advise against Proton - they’re not good at actually respecting privacy and require a premium subscription to access your email over SMTP (making it much harder to switch away and locking you into their client).

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              1 year ago

              Email isn’t private. They don’t scan your email for ads which is about all you can ask for

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                1 year ago

                ??

                They strip all the tracking from the emails. I’ll unsubscribe from ads, or turn off compromised addresses, but them not scanning my emails is a plus.

                How is it not private?

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              1 year ago

              Please expound on your thoughts. I happen to be a paid subscriber, cause I want to support them and I appriciate the extra features I get. So the issues with the free accounts arent a problem for me, but my friends who use the free account don’t seem to have any complaints.

        • Senseless@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          I think what you have in mind is YouTube Vanced. ReVanced doesn’t use the MicroG Suite.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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          Even Walmart lets shoplifters return to their stores after like three years. Think about that, if you owned a shop, what would mean to welcome back as a customer someone who previously stole from you?

          Not that blocking ads is stealing, that they need us a lot more than we need them. Can build the nicest, fanciest store around with all the best things for sale, doesn’t mean shit if nobody shops there.

          If the experience gets any worse, I just won’t watch YouTube videos. I already watch way less than I used to when it was a cool video hosting platform, before it started enshitifying.

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          1 year ago

          I’ve been using microg for ages both for voiced before it got shutdown by Google and for revanced

          Nothing has happened to my account

          • Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Yes, I said that, but there’s still the possibility. It’s explicitly against their terms of service and when you log into an account specifically to break their terms of service, they reserve the right to tell you to go fuck yourself

            Just because they haven’t yet doesn’t mean they won’t. We’re entering a new era of enshitification

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        1 year ago

        Yeah recently starting using this and it’s excellent, no more manually trying to skip over yet another nordvpn sponsor monologue