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[โ€“] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

getting what I pay for

GOOG and all its affiliated advertisers -- essentially, every corporation on this planet -- now knows not only all your browsing and watching habits, but also that you are a likely good return on investment for more mining, more fine-grained targeting, more scrutiny.

and also to train AI scraping the comments, and the videos themselves.