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Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers.
(lemmy.world)
So this started coming up today. On every video. I can (so far) click the "x" and remove it to watch (still see 2 ads before the video, and one after 4 minutes - ruins music on YT), but did click the "Report issue" only for the dialogue box not to work.
I found a link to a that said 11% use adblock. Thats not a lot.Maaayyyybe there is a problem with the amount of ads youtube forces down our throats for even short videos. 🤷♂️
Let’s be real. Blocking ads isn’t pirating.
Ads are the form of payment for the service and using a paid service without paying is piracy. How do you think this is any different?
The payment for the service is coming from the ad owners. Me choosing not to download parts of a webpage isn't piracy, it's me choosing not to download certain parts of a web page. Nobody has any right to force data I don't want onto my computer except me. Piracy is illegal, adblocking is not (so far).
This isn't like you copied a game and cracked the DRM. An adblocker just strips out the HTML and javascript needed to display an ad. It's not different than if you turned off images in your browser like we used to do back in the day on dialup to make it load faster.
So if I understand correctly, you define the border of piracy as the technicality of websites where the HTML and JS are accessible as opposed to a binary that comes with built-in DRM.
How do you think about DRM-free games?
We've had the capability to pick and choose what we want to download from a website since the first web browsers. Why are ads any different? It's the same as if I decide to strip out all HTML frame and table tags just for shits and giggles. Would you call that piracy?
It's my device, and I decide what to accept from the website. If they want to block me completely, they can do that too. But they don't. Not yet.
I also have no stomach for downloading 10 megabytes worth of ads and trackers for a website where the actual content is like, 300 kilobytes. THAT is complete bullshit.