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.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    If you subscribe to premium using an Indian IP address, for example, you’ll get it for like a buck a month

    • lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I did that for a month from Argentina, then Visa stopped working. I started a personal invidious instance and haven’t looked back.

      • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        a bit off topic but when you say personal instance where is it hosted? And if it is strictly personal, doesn’t google create the same profile for you which will be assigned in your IP if it is hosted in your house, or in your VPS’s IP if hosted elsewhere?