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> I was happy enough to use youtube and give google my data on my own terms. I don't think they're really that bothered about your data. They want to show you

• autoexec 2y ago
  The thing google cares about most (after money) is your data. Youtube is just one of many places ads are shown and ads themselves are just one way to turn your data into money. Youtube ads in particular make money in part by being so obnoxious that people will pay youtube to stop the ads from getting in their way. I have a strict policy against paying people to remove the problems they themselves created for me (AKA racketeering) so I was never going to be a youtube premium customer, but there are plenty of other opportunities to make money from my data, including through ads, even without those ads I won't tolerate on youtube. I'm not Google's preferred user, but that doesn't mean they can't still make money at my expense.