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.
Does Google understand consent?
[Yes] / [Maybe Later]
So, they do?
This is a trend I’m seeing everywhere. And I hate it.
I started telling uBlock to zap any popup that tries to force me to agree to something
Interesting, how did you do that?
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.
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
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984
it time to use piped invidous or peertube fuck google
Can’t view nsfw marked videos in those anymore from my understanding.
They’re giving you a false sense of control so you don’t feel the need to block ads at all.
Tech bros and “no understanding of consent”, name a more iconic duo.
“Can I rape you now or in a week?”
Remind me later
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.
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.
Hey can you remind me how to get ublock origin? I used it years ago but between getting different phones and mandatory software updates, it always gets lost so I don’t remember how I got it. Is it only available on a certain browser? I’m currently using Vivaldi browser for some reason because some tech savvy person recommended it.
Depends on different devices. On iphones and chrome based browsers (like vivaldi), you can’t really install ublock origin. You need to use firefox or a phone browser that already has adblocking functionality like duckduckgo browser or brave. If you’re on android then the firefox app can install the ublock origin extension.
Okay I’ll go back to using firefox. Yes I’m an Android girl.
For basically anything pro-privacy, Firefox (edit: or derivatives) is the way to go.
vivaldi is chromium-based. therefore uBo does not exist.
i, therefore, recommend floorp browser. it has a lot of features like vivaldi, but it’s based on firefox. so uBo (and a bunch of other great extensions google hate) DOES exist.
if you want, you can keep using the builtin adblocker of vivaldi. but keep in mind it’s nowhere close to uBo.
(uBo=uBlock Origin)
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
Counterpoint: I don’t like any ads, so you’ll let me block all of them, right Google?
No?
Too bad, doing it anyways. :3
Of course they do, it’s called “paying for content”.
🤡
Ad starts playing for their paid no-ads experience…
Duckduckgo browser ftw
That notification Sounds like a shitpost
Google: “Block ads you don’t like.”
Me: Blocks ad
Google: Ad blocked; 928749638174002 Ads Remaining
No means no, Google.
NO IS NOT AN OPTION, DAVE.
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…
