Unlock origin + Firefox! The harassment stops. I'd rather donate to the unlock team monthly instead of paying google for a solution to a problem they created.
Pi-Hole + VPN and you can stop mobile ads as well. (You connect your phone to your VPN, whose traffic passes through your Pi-Hole)
Ublock Origin also works on Firefox mobile for Android, but that only works inside the browser.
You need the Pi-Hole network-level blocking to block ads in apps.
You don't get to say "No" to YouTube, Microsoft, or the thousands of websites that ask to you to give them your email. There's only a "Maybe later".
I fuuuhuhuhucking hate this condescending, pestering dark pattern that apparently every single designer on the planet is required to use
Would you like to review our app?: Yes or Not Now.
I always say yes then give one star and complain about being asked to review it
This is the way
If an open source app asks me to do so, I usually give it a five star review. It's the least I can do to support them and make them visible on Google Play.
Maybe Later
Pro-tip: apps can't ask for leaving a review twice, so if you press yes and then go immediately back, it will never ask again.
Uhm, that' s just capitalism in a nutshell.
Everything is just routing around people telling you "no."
Government regulation is literally the epitome of being told "no" and they spend all the money in the fucking world to force it into a "yes."
I mean, these people are so far up their own asses, I've seen ad industry people say seriously that people avoiding ads is breaking a contract. The genuine attitude that if they paid for the ad, in real life or online, that we owe them our eyes on it because they spent money on it. They're so far out of touch that they can't even face small risk.
Is it really a shock that a lot of people in corporate America are actual fucking rapists?
Gates, Weinstein, Musk, Trump, McMahon, I could go on... Plenty of these guys are well documented as not being able to take "no" for an answer, even if there's no evidence they raped anyone (Gates, for example).
No means no but ask me later means ask me later. You never said no. Source: the option doesn't exist
Use inspect element to change the button from "ask me later" to "no" and then click it
Why is tech so hell bent on removing consent. We need to frame this in a way that makes their pr teams shit themselves.
I just assumed it was because they secretly wanted me to use SmartTube
No means "I'll ask you again in 30 days, because we really really want shorts to be a thing."
Sorry man I don't make the rules
Their full screen popups when I first open the app have started to load the subscribe button a second before anything else on screen. I keep catching myself about tap it out of pure reflex and I think they doing it on purpose.
Very few, if any tech companies care about consent.
As Louis Rossman says, they have a rapist mentality.
Yes they are. But no one who can do anything about it is doing anything about it.
Not just Youtube. Google is! Ever try to use Gmail or Google Drive or Google Docs in a non-Chrome browser? That’s another level of harassment!
