• helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t understand why people are all pro-piracy but then get offended when someone accuses them of piracy…

    He never went on any “big rants”. He’s mentioned it a few times, and he’s right. You’re bypassing payment (in the form of watching ads) to watch the video. LTT doesn’t really care because AdSense only makes up a small portion of their income, which is why he’s shown many different times, many different ways to block/bypass advertising. I could make an argument about how he’s “pulling up the ladder behind him” but I digress.

    Regardless “piracy” is a fairly convoluted term with no concrete definition and it’s a dumb argument for anyone to have.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You’re bypassing payment (in the form of watching ads)

      By this argument going to the bathroom during a commercial break is piracy.

      This isnt “someone being offended when accused of piracy”

      This is " People getting upset when an idiot tries to blame end users, instead of holding the people who created the problem accountable"

      Cause adblock isnt a user problem.

      Its an ad service problem. They created a hostile environment where people had to run adblockers to protect themselves against unmoderated and unpoliced content and malicious/infected advertising.

      If you have issues, blame the people who caused it, not the end users trying to protect themselves.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        By this argument going to the bathroom during a commercial break is piracy.

        Only you didn’t go to the bathroom. The ad just never appeared.

        Chances of you getting up and leaving the room every time an ad comes on: 10%.

        Chances of you blocking an ad with an ad-blocker: 100%.

        This isnt “someone being offended when accused of piracy”

        I think it very clearly is.

        This is " People getting upset when an idiot tries to blame end users, instead of holding the people who created the problem accountable"

        Whether it is piracy or not has nothing to do with blame or responsibility. You’re still just taking personal offense to being called a pirate and conjuring up nonsense arguments to combat it.