Is using adblock the same as piracy?

[ditto]

Ad-blocking is a kind of war — a first-world, low-stakes, both-sides-are-fortunate-to-have-this-kind-of-problem war, but a war nonetheless, with damage hitting both sides. I see war in the Tao Te Ching sense: it should be avoided when possible; when that isn’t possible, war should be entered solemnly, not celebrated.

 

[Day Drinking]

Maybe it's just a completely innocent love for foxes....
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Lol. That's sus enough, I'll give that.

 

[Lady Adjani]

I'm sorry, but I have zero sympathy for youtube salesmen

-receive literally free gear from manufacturers
-ads and promotions baked into the videos ON TOP of ad sense garbage

And I absolutely love the fact that you need a massive studio, the best equipment money can buy, employ a team of 20+ people, just so we can get a 10 minute long video with a person staring directly into the camera telling you what GPU benchmarked better with powerpoint style graphs spliced in between takes.

Also, fuck your dumb as shit thumbnails and "muh algorithm", you're a festering wound on the internet.

 

[Day Drinking]

Also piracy, according to old merriam:
3a: the unauthorized use of another's production, invention, or conception especially in infringement of a copyright
b: the illicit accessing of broadcast signals


There's no eula or any other documentation I've seen prohibiting the use of ad blockers, or they'd all be getting shut down. The lawsuits would be massive It'd also be incredibly hard to enforce.

The next logical conclusion would be that visiting any site with ad block is pirating that site. Where does it end?

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

Adblocking isn't piracy. It's practically necessary, considering there's been ransomware delivered through ads on major websites. They always make the user experience worse, and some websites become completely unusable without a blocker.

It's on par with saying that people who complain about DRM are in the wrong, when DRM's had a history of causing a slew of problems for paying customers, while pirates are getting a better experience without paying. That's why you should always, always go for the option that benefits you most, paid or not. It is never your responsibility to pay for an inferior version of the same software that a piracy group has improved and released for free. The onus is on the software creator to provide value for your money that the pirates cannot.

In the same vein, it's not your responsibility to worry about the welfare of websites entirely relying on ads. They can sell merchandise, or open a Patreon. You will never stop the public from blocking your ads by just whining about it.


He's been getting worse lately, and I've considered just making a Linus thread where we just post whatever nonsense we come across.

I've gotten Malware, Spyware, and Viruses from Ads.

If none of those things happened ( and because I use add block all three of those things happen on the reg) I would consider not using adblock.

 

[beautiful person]

1. No.
2. There's nothing wrong with piracy.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

Every once in a while someone will ask me to look at something on their phone or laptop and it's shocking the amount of advertising people put up with now. News sites will easily fill at least 50% of the page up with ads, complete with a 60 second video ad that has to load. It's pretty insane, especially considering people have data limits on their mobile service. I can't imagine trying to actually read things or get anything done with all that shit blaring at you.

Including SUBSCRIPTION News Sites

like

you want me to pay you 4 bucks a month and you want me to put up with this bullshit?

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

ad blockers are no more piracy than changing the tv channel when the ad break comes on. simply choosing to not waste your time looking at ads isnt piracy. Ive never understood what people like about linus and i guess i never will.

 

[Toolbox]

Modern 'content creators' are so entitled that they seem to not even remember the days when the Youtube payouts were nil, and before that - nonexistent. We're a long way from the days when people made content just to inform, entertain, and at most gain popularity. Not like it wasn't possible even before adsense to make cash from merchandise, donations, whatever.

 

[kūhaku]

If anything it's better than piracy, because whenever I see an advertisement for something it reduces my chances of consuming said product, so not seeing any ads at all ups their chances a bit.

 

[Seasoned News Reporter]

Linus "The youtube faggot, not programmer ass blaster Linus" is a fucking retarded faggot. The sheer greed of this cock sucker actually astounds me because he is wholly invested in giving stupid ass takes like "ad blocking is piracy." Meanwhile this faggot literally gets free shit on top of all kinds of shitty ass sponsorships and yet other youtubers actually do a better job than linus could ever hope to do when it comes to tech tips. I don't see this soyjack looking matchstick telling anybody the difference between pcie 3 or pcie 3, what constitutes a bad power supply or how to repair a macbook. Gamers nexus does for more for the average consumer than Linus would ever do since half the time I look at a linus video it's just some stupid gimmicky project they're doing. The most interesting thing his channel has done recently was their linux daily driver challenge & throughout that entire thing it is quite clear that when you compare linus to everybody else that linus barely understands how to wipe his own ass. Holy shit I could only imagine what kind of video he would make if he ever discovers what MoCA technology is.

"Autistic rant over"

 

[Homegrown Homophobia]

I can't get over how much of a fug his wife is.

 

[Seasoned News Reporter]

I can't get over how much of a fug his wife is.

She's still fuckable, at least by my standards but then again those are probably worth less than a penny anyway. Also I'm pretty sure she's smarter than linus since supposedly she manages the affairs of Linus Media Group.

 

[Equivocal_Iki]

Another shill telling me what I'm allowed to do on my computer. You can give me as many ads as you want, but my computer doesn't have to load them and I'm allowed to set it up to do that.

 

[Slav Power]

Guy's an idiot. Using adblock and piracy aren't even in the same galaxy.

Piracy is stealing. No getting around that - you can justify it on occasion, but it's still taking/watching/using something without paying.

Ad blocking is preventing the theft of your time and bandwidth by a parasite.

You cannot steal a car/TV/handbag infinite amount of times and generate infinite amount of revenue loss. There's a reason why piracy is penalized under a different law than theft.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

Not even close to the same thing. Fuck their ads, and their tracking cookies, and all the other shit they try to use to make money off of me without my permission.

 

[dreamworks face]

Linus is an autistic nigger. This whole trend of websites that don't let you access them when ad-block is enabled is already a perversion of the internet. Having a bunch of ads or a paywall on an article does not stop me from reading your content, but it does piss me off that you are trying to make money using a technology you do not understand and never will.

 

[WeWuzFinns]

YouTube bans people for not being a complete and total suck ups. Big tech actively fucks with their competitors by using banks, regulation and such. Just keep blocking the adds, if you actually manage to make a dent your tax money will be used to bail them out.

 

[Stoneheart]

Linus is Canadian, so who cares about his ramblings?

 

[Slav Power]

People are already bashing on Linus under his Pi-Hole video.

Maybe it's just a completely innocent love for foxes....
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Not only does he have a fascination with foxes (feral foxes at that), he (and his followers) believe that Byuu legit killed himself, and deny the official US reports:
Nitter https://archive.is/AcfiL
But also he loudly and proudly sucks the tranny dick:

Rate me MATI, but I cannot wait the day when his pandering to the tranny crowd will be his demise. That or when his morbid obesity finally catches up to him.