For example, data on which videos on YouTube I watch are used to personalise my recommendations. My feed becomes subjectively more interesting to me. The ads aren’t personalised because I don’t see any ads. So my data is being used, just for my benefit. Does that make sense?
I see ads on my Apple TV but they're not personalized, just random food delivery, lots if ads for chips, shampoo and meds, or the usual junk that you see on cable TV. I fail to see how this brings me any benefit.
> If you're watching YT and think you are not seeing ads, then you're being foiled.
Actually running an ad blocker/paying for Premium means you aren't seeing ads, pushed by Google. Any creator might be showing you sponsorships/product placements of course, and Google has no say in that.
When I say "you're being foiled" I'm not talking about product placements. I'm talking about how Google designs its sorting algorithm for me, on my personalized YT front page and how that assortment challenges me to become involved, enticed even, to view/buy certain things.
So you think google is guiding you, based on your profile based on all the data they have collected on you, to (for example) specific tech product reviews in order to entice you to consume goods at retailer walmart/dell/apple/samsung etc?
