For context, this popped up as I went to the youtube homepage. This is absurd. Of course, I have uBlock Origin, so it doesn’t matter to me regardless, but there’s no way to say no.
Tech bros and “no understanding of consent”, name a more iconic duo.
That’s actually a great way of viewing it. Feels like an abusive relationship. Reminds me of Windows.
It is abusive. They react exactly the same way an abusive partner does when you try to leave the relationship.
Also, if an individual person collected and compiled data on another person’s activities the way they do, we would call that person a stalker. But somehow a massive corporation doing it is OK.
“Can I rape you now or in a week?”
Remind me later
That’s your notification to update uBlock Origin.
No worries! uBlock Origin is still making sure no ads are actually being shown, regardless of if I tell it to remind me in a week or give it my data. But I’ve never seen this popup before, on any social media platform, I’m very curious if they’ll actually ask me again in a week.
If you let the folks know at the uBlock Reddit they will eventually make sure you never see it again. I wish they had a Fediverse presence.
Google: “Block ads you don’t like.”
Me: Blocks ad
Google: Ad blocked; 928749638174002 Ads Remaining
Title a dialog “Your ads, your choice” and then don’t give a choice to say no. You’d think their marketing department would realize how awful this looks…
No means no, Google.
Clippy wouldn’t do this
We need more push back. Ublock origin is not going to fix all of the anti consumer stuff companies are doing
Not a fan of clippy, but I saw a video explaining this and I fully agree.
That’s the point. Everyone hated clippy and that piece of shit was still miles better than the absolute cesspool we have to wade through every day now.
Google makes it sound like more surveillance is actually less surveillance.
And the absence of a “Fuck Off Forever” button of course.
Please use a frontend to one of several YT clones/downloaders/alternatives. I’m sure there’s even a browser add-on that will take you there every time you click a YT link.
That’s Google’s standard and has been for a long time on their services, most Androids and Windows. Saying no to personalised ads doesn’t mean you’re saying no to ads, it means getting ads that aren’t filtered to the genre you respond to. If you use a stock-OS Android it might be worth deleting your ad profile in the Play Store app every now and then.
Fun fact, if you don’t give them a locale (for example, when setting up spyware such as Win11, for language and keyboard choose global, and for timezone choose UTC) they can’t give you a large portion of their bloat.
I started telling uBlock to zap any popup that tries to force me to agree to something
Click on the uBlock icon in your top toolbar. The lightning bolt (⚡) will “zap”, hiding the content until you refresh the page. The eyedropper operates almost the same way but a little more permanent.
Interesting, how did you do that?
Right click on the element => uB Block element…
If the block element menu option doesn’t show up, it can definitely be enabled in uB settings.
Meanwhile on my account:
“We’re not sure if you’re 18 or not, so we disabled some functionality like personalized ads”
Can’t tell you how to replicate it, because I’m not sure how I’ve ended up there in the first place
That notification Sounds like a shitpost
it time to use piped invidous or peertube fuck google
Just use freetube already
They’re giving you a false sense of control so you don’t feel the need to block ads at all.
Duckduckgo browser ftw
