cmon, pretty sure Linus says that it is basically equivelent to piracy (and hes right) while also freely admitting his use of ublock and saying youre free to use it. Let’s not defame others by quoting them out of context.
The more ubiquitous ad blockers are, the more incentive companies have to pour resources into the “problem”. I’m really not sure what the endgame is of calling out why every user doesn’t have ad blockers on. The more we push on it, the harder it is to block ads. Honestly, in 2023 if someone allows ads in their spaces, let them. But I’d rather continue with what we have than push all users to something. I say this as a sports fan who knows all too well what happens to streams once they get too popular. I’ve gone through countless quality streamers that haven’t survived once word of mouth got out. Ad blocking will go the same way if it grows in popularity
heres why this is important: in the current regime, we are the defenders and they are the attackers. Ie, they just need 1 exploit, we need to block all of them
in a piracy regime, the roles are flipped: we just need 1 exploit to get the data, they need teams of people to protect their shit.
Nobody wants to return to that, which I think is to our advantage wrt adblock.
I get what you’re saying, but I’m hoping I’m more right :)
I don’t care. I’m not worried about it. It’s not that important. I’m not refusing, I’m just not giving two fucks about it. Why are you so militant about people doing the same thing as you do?
I said (translating vernacular into meaning): In this thread complaining about ads, there is a free tool that solves this problem, but many people refuse to use it – why? are they stupid?
you said: “I don’t find ads, presence or otherwise, to be meaningful in my life. Stop being militant about your adblocking ways”
ie, you are in zero ways the target audience for my comment, but instead come across as a super aggressive pro-ad-capitalism weirdo. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Stop accepting ads in your life, ffs. What is it with people and steadfastly refusing to install an adblock? Are you stupid?
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jesus sus, man
Je sus
maaaad sus
What’s a TV?
Its one of those boxes you use as a monitor for retro game consoles with analogue output
They either don’t know adblock exists or are listening to YouTubers like Linus, who claim that blocking ads on their videos is “stealing”
cmon, pretty sure Linus says that it is basically equivelent to piracy (and hes right) while also freely admitting his use of ublock and saying youre free to use it. Let’s not defame others by quoting them out of context.
can you coherently explain why you think this is right? please be sure to refer to the relevant legal texts.
wait, i have the permission of a youtube simp to install software on my own computer???
holy mother forking shirtballs
I dont know a lot about linus except he invented linux, so I cant help but disrespect him
The more ubiquitous ad blockers are, the more incentive companies have to pour resources into the “problem”. I’m really not sure what the endgame is of calling out why every user doesn’t have ad blockers on. The more we push on it, the harder it is to block ads. Honestly, in 2023 if someone allows ads in their spaces, let them. But I’d rather continue with what we have than push all users to something. I say this as a sports fan who knows all too well what happens to streams once they get too popular. I’ve gone through countless quality streamers that haven’t survived once word of mouth got out. Ad blocking will go the same way if it grows in popularity
we have already seen this story in 2000: piracy
heres why this is important: in the current regime, we are the defenders and they are the attackers. Ie, they just need 1 exploit, we need to block all of them
in a piracy regime, the roles are flipped: we just need 1 exploit to get the data, they need teams of people to protect their shit.
Nobody wants to return to that, which I think is to our advantage wrt adblock.
I get what you’re saying, but I’m hoping I’m more right :)
I don’t care. I’m not worried about it. It’s not that important. I’m not refusing, I’m just not giving two fucks about it. Why are you so militant about people doing the same thing as you do?
This does not come across the way you think it does.
So the OP calls me stupid? Yeah, I’m stupid for not needing to block ads. Fuck off.
no u
of the two of us, you are clearly militant.
I said (translating vernacular into meaning): In this thread complaining about ads, there is a free tool that solves this problem, but many people refuse to use it – why? are they stupid? you said: “I don’t find ads, presence or otherwise, to be meaningful in my life. Stop being militant about your adblocking ways”
ie, you are in zero ways the target audience for my comment, but instead come across as a super aggressive pro-ad-capitalism weirdo. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.