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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.

Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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Obfuscate as boycott? (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi,

I was wondering about the services I can’t boycott. Youtube being one.

If youtubes value is my usage data, can I obfuscate their data by liking things I don’t really care about, changing my info, and get irrelevant ads, thus making the advertising product less effective and valuable?

And create some doubt about value in the mind of advertisers in the proces?

I’m not dumb enough to think it matters if only I do it. But if it was a movement?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It ain't gonna change the value of ur data, they'll still sell it, it just won't be as accurate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sure, but pure cocaine is also worth more than the diluted b2c products.

Or in seriousness, companies do care about return on advertising spend. I sure as shit aint buying any of the weird dutch stuff youtube is trying to sell me (have a VPN through NL for some odd reason - came with vivaldi browser)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe try FreeTube, and not only block ads but keep your preferences (subscriptions etc) out of their data-ravenous hands.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just download 7-8 videos once with ytdpl or newpipe on my phone and watch them offline later. I use a fedi bot named birb to keep updated with some creators I follow. Some creators are on other platforms like odysee

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried using Odysee. Unfortunately, it's a far right hellhole with vaccine and climate misinformation. Very weird vibes there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don't follow those people. I just ignore them. I follow those people I already known from YouTube

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unless you can automate that with a script that runs in the background, it sounds like a pretty time-intensive thing to do. What really matters to YouTube is retention, so if you spend more time loading videos - albeit irrelevant to you - it's still watch time they can monetize. I wouldn't bet too heavily on that strategy.

Ad-blocking is still the most efficient way to hurt their bottom line, considering how hard they fight it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I’d need some way of getting the random things to follow. I was thinking a plugin like the good old stumbleUpon days.

I’m om youtube, bam it suggests something to fuck with their tracking. I click. Done.

Same on fb.

I’ve done it manually on fb and it had the weird effect of just making fb sooooo boring. After a while it was real easy to just delete.

But yeah for sure, adblockers also count :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This. If you totally have to use the horrible YouTubcrap, disable all ads. I have never seen an ad on yt until I saw a friend use it and watch like 3 ads in a single, short stupid video. What the...