I know the topic of whether adblock is piracy is debated, but I am guessing there are a lot of adblock users here and I was wondering if anyone has seen the youtube adblock warning message in the wild. I use ublock origin and still haven’t seen it once.

  • @ruk_n_rul
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    211 months ago

    The hypocrisy lies in Linus preaching “ad blocking is piracy” while taking VPN sponsors which enables piracy in another way.

    Gotta work on that reading comprehension friend.

    • @nani8ot@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      LTT also did videos about PiHole and YouTube Vanced, so I personally don’t think it’s hypocrisy advertising VPN’s (as long as those VPN ads don’t lie about it’s benefits).

      I do believe that Linus once again uses words in ways not commonly used. I.e. if they define piracy as

      consuming content without paying how the creator intended

      then blcoking ads is piracy. But the commonly used definition is more like wikipedia’s

      […] Online piracy or software piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted works digitally without permission […]