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What does this mean?
You can say your webbrowser tells the website "Hey this is me! I look like this!" and the website can then keep track of you.

While I use canvas blocker, each tab, website click my identifyer change. I'm a different web browser each time.
 
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You can say your webbrowser tells the website "Hey this is me! I look like this!" and the website can then keep track of you.

While I use canvas blocker, each tab, website click my identifyer change. I'm a different web browser each time.

Okay that is extremely smart.
 

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For any youtubers out there, think about just how much value you contributed to them for free, and now they treat you like this.
Ever since YouTube was bought by Google, it had gotten a lot worse from then.
 

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I've anticipated that youtube would die sometime in the future for a long time, maybe its coming soon.
I highly doubt YouTube will die anytime soon. It would only be time if people moved to alternative platforms.
 
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Also helps to use an adblocker with blocking trackers as well.
I have quite a few on my browser, and I haven't gotten to that point yet where Susan holds me at gunpoint to sign me up to their stupid Premium subscription.
 
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She won't. She left Youtube a while ago.
I know. She was replaced by Neal Mohan, who looks like he got kicked out of Hollywood for not doing well in the box office.
 

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Yeah they're definitely getting more aggressive with this shit now. I just use "block element" on the popup and invisible overlay each time.

If there were any notable alternatives to YouTube it'd be one thing, but Google was sure to solidify their monopoly on long-form video hosting before springing this shit on us. Seems like it could be grounds for a lawsuit, especially given how bad they are about QA testing. They publish tons of adverts with viruses and malware.
 
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