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I can't believe the number of people here that think YouTube has some right to access my eyes and attention.

No one is forcing them to stream me free data. What I do with the data they send me is none of their business. I've never consented or given them permission to access me.

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A lot of those people work for adtechs. Once you realize that 50% of bigtech is relying almost entirely on ads, a lot of people are simply advocating for keeping their FAANG salaries by forcing us to watch debilitating ads.

I guess it's not disruption when we do it.

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