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submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

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[-] dack@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

This is why Google has been using their browser monopoly to push their "Web Integrity API". If that gets adopted, they can fully control the client side and prevent all ad blocking.

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 year ago

Thankfully, Firefox is still a thing. If that comes out, it's going to be a hell of a lot more popular.

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 1 year ago

... and dependent on Google ; they may either push that API into FF or push something different so bad that FF would lose even more users.

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago
[-] yoz@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago
[-] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 1 year ago

Delayed... For now

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 1 year ago

Google also said they would cancel there plan to roll out FLoC after significant pushback a while ago, only to renamed it as Ad Topics and roll them out anyway when no one is looking. If Google do the same with web integrity API, I wouldn't be surprised anymore.

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, FLoC had signifient issues and could be used to fingerprint users. Google's whole point of FLoC was to get rid of third party cookies, to stop sites from fingerprinting users and tracking them throughout the web, so FLoC didn't really solve the problem in that regard. With Ad Topics, only a limited subset of topics are presented to the advertisers, and fake data is injected, making that fingerprinting less likely.

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