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YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog (adguard.com)

submitted 3 months ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

So YouTube Premium is as worthless as I thought. Google was never great in drawing recognizable lines between their free offering and paid... and it seems their solution is to make everything as shitty as possible and barely fix the stuff they fucked up.

Let's wait until Google Maps gets ads .... routing already seems fishy to me.

Thanks for your brief description... only shows me that my next Phone won't be a Pixel.

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Definitely avoid Pixels. They look better than most Android devices in terms of software imo, although it’s because they’re really locking down the firmware similar to iOS, which breaks the purpose of using Android anyway. Also the processor on the Pixels are even behind 5-6 year old phones.

Btw…Google Maps has ads already, the square icons are all ads paid by the place owners. Routing is fishy yes, because they’re actively routing people through different routes in order to collect data for their algorithms.

The biggest reason I still use Google products is there is no alternative and they fully know this.

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I got a Pixel 6 because I wanted to try something new .. it will probably be my last Pixel.

If there is a phone out there with Lineage/Cyanogen (or whatever it's called now) out of the box with decent HW, I would prefer that.

The last 2 years changed Google. They feel hollow like a blimp. Looking big but no real oomph any more.