So where is the front end I can use to still give YouTube ad views without being tracked? I’m saying this as a YT premium subscriber.
sums it up.
a long time believer of seeing ads here. that way, i don't have to subscribe to bazillion of platforms i tend to visit. but this view started to shift when i started seeing ads from my alma mater's football team everywhere. the "why am i seeing this ad" link told me that "i gave my information to the advertiser".
of course i did, i went to school there!
I think I agree that it probably wouldn't exist. Not very many companies would invest that much to just to break even.
I wouldn’t mind being manipulated into buying a clunky life improvement gadget that I use exactly once as much as being forced to watch a guy screaming at me for 15 seconds. On second thought, isn’t the latter straight up jumpscare?
You can completely, 100% opt out of personalized ads. Go to https://adssettings.google.com/ (edit to fix url)
As for me, I'll stick to youtube-dl
Well there was of course; the do-not-track header.
So now we fight back with ad-blockers and other privacy preserving tricks (like clearing cookies) to keep our sanity and make our compiled profiles a lot less valuable (although Google will probably still profit from it by pretending I do see ads and are influenced).
When you have data on one person, you can sell them ads. When you have data on everybody, you can change elections, culture, and widespread opinions as you see fit. Even if that isn't being abused today (which it probably is) the fact the Google has the capability of doing that one day is scary enough that we absolutely shouldn't let the practice continue.