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Comment by Ekaros | Hacker News Reader

Just in general look at those cookie consent dialogs at any site living on advertising or using it and really see the insanity of number of partners... That should show that we might actually need to burn it all down...

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Just install uBlock on your friends and families browsers. Most people seems fine with being tracked if that means they get "offers" they don't want to miss. I however detest anything connected to advertisement to the level that I frequently hang up when our own sales people call me because I directly spot a salesperson, even before I recognize the voice... Quite embarrasing sometimes :-)

So I install uBlock, uMatrix and Pi-hole everywhere. Also help customers do the same with sane defaults so they get rid of most stuff without burning their whole browser.

And as an advertiser we don't have to pay for the people that didn't want to see our ads in the first place, win win loose :-)

Specifically, uBlock Origin

To add: the iPhone has no adblocker BUT nextdns gets rid of all ads on my non jailbroken iPhones. Except YouTube. So I don’t use the YT app.

iPhone has AdGuard which is decent. There's also Lockdown Privacy which acts as a local VPN server (that the device itself connects to) which can filter in-app spyware such as the Facebook SDK.

Can they block YT ads? It’s the only place I’m getting ads on my phone.

Not sure - I recommend just using Invidious for this. Host your own private instance on a small computer at home. Put it on a random domain/port and it's unlikely to be discovered so you don't even need auth.

Would you be willing to pay for the content you get for free from sites like YouTube, Reddit, and HackerNews?

If you pay, you still get tracked. PS: And now they have your name, address, email and CC on file.

Also an important data point: (1) you have disposable income and (2) you are willing to pay.

I'd be willing to pay the 5 cents a month or whatever it works out to be

If you're talking Facebook in the US, it will be ~40$, I would think it would be around the same for Youtube.

https://www.adexchanger.com/investment/google-reveals-youtub...

Youtube at least puts a price on this: $12/mo. $18 for a family of 5.

And then you can't use the incognito mode when you don't want to mess up your recommendations.

YouTube has a setting to pause watch/search history. I'm sure they still track these things being the scenes, but I've found that removing videos from watch history is enough to keep similar things off my feed.

Yeah, that's something I don't trust at all: that they don't feed it into every single machine learning model available to them.

The ad industry as a whole is absolutely untrustworthy. Even you pay you can't trust not to be tracked.

You assume that product must exist. It does not have to.

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