• schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Isn’t he the same person who calls adblocking piracy?

    I mean I get that Youtubers have no morals and it’s all about money but that seems excessively hypocritical, even for a Youtube “personality”.

    • TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Isn’t that essentially what it is? Getting something for free through certain means you wouldn’t get for free otherwise? Which means no money goes to whoever owns the service you’re using?

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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        2 months ago

        Say you walk up to some person giving out free samples of food. As a condition of taking this free sample, you also must take a pamphlet of advertisements from the people who are giving you the free sample. You take your free sample, and then walk away while dropping the pamphlet in the nearest trash can. That’s essentially what ad blocking is. You’re simply preventing certain parts of a web page from being downloaded to your device. That’s why people have issues with the “piracy” label, because nothing is being “stolen”. You’re just refusing to take all of it.

        • ContrarianTrail@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          More accurate comparison would be taking the sample but refusing the pamphlet. Dropping it in the nearest bin would be skipping the ad after 5 seconds.

    • Prandom_returns@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Youtubers have no morals? What kind of idiotic generalisation is that?

      BTW, adblocking is a form piracy, that I’m completely fine with.