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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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[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] kwr112233@feddit.dk 1 points 1 week 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)