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?

  • Dyskolos
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    6 hours 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…