Since May, YouTube has ramped up its block of ad blockers and the company has now fully launched this policy worldwide...
  • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I don’t believe that it really would have to. Any official government accounts likely are tied to the government Google organization. If you are talking about private accounts then Google can use the horde of data they have to tie government officials to private accounts.

    Overall though, this is also following the belief that anyone in the government is smart enough to use ad blockers which I have my doubts. I don’t think any real high up government official uses ad block.

    • hiddengoat@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yes, shithead, the IT professionals tasked with setting up government computers do in fact know how to install a fucking browser extension.

      • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hey bad actor, stop name-calling if you want to have a conversation. There are a lot of limitations to the computers that government officials work on and what I said was clearly in jest. Most IT departments do not put in ad block on the preinstalled browsers in my experience and furthermore will block you with group policies from doing much with your computer.

    • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They probably don’t.

      If you’re talking about when they’re in the office and on the job, chances are they’re not using Chrome at all, they’re using IE or Edge (depending on the Windows version deployed these days), with group policy pushed out from the domain that prevents installing any additional software (note: this doesn’t prevent the use of portable installs of software, uncompressed to their Documents/ subdirectory or something) (but most of those folks don’t know anything about portable software).

      There is also a very good chance that they’re still blocking Youtube on NIPR for bandwidth management purposes.

      I’ve no idea if US .govs are using Google Orgs for anything these days. When I was still a Beltway Bandit it was all Exchange with Outlook, all the time.