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Facebook considered offering an ad-free subscription after the Cambridge Analytica scandal
After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on how much data Facebook had on everyone, including “shadow profiles” for non-Facebook users, was enough to shake financial markets and, eventually, prompt a public apology tour…
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YouTube Premium Lite Gives You Ad-Free Videos at a Lower Price
YouTube is expanding its YouTube Premium Lite subscription service, which gives you ad-fre YouTube but without the added YouTube Music service and other features. It started in Thailand, Germany, and Australia, and now it’s available in the United States and will come to other countries soon. This new YouTube Premium Lite lets you watch most videos without ads for a…
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NewPipe Is an Ad-Free, Privacy-Respecting YouTube App for Android
YouTube’s Android app is cluttered, slow, and full of ads. Even worse: It tracks every video you watch. NewPipe is a free and open source Android alternative interface for YouTube that’s fully private and doesn’t show ads. We’ve talked about ways to watch ad-free YouTube videos, and NewPipe is arguably the best one for Android users. Even better: NewPipe plays…
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Review: Apple Sports Is the Best Ad-Free Score App
Basically every sports app is a bloated nightmare. You just want to check the scores, but these apps want you to do something else entirely (maybe gambling?). Whether I’m using official league apps or one offered by a broadcaster like ESPN, it always takes a few taps to get what I want—and that’s after I’ve waited for it to download…
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