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.

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    1 year ago

    I know the topic of whether adblock is piracy is debated

    Its not debated. Its bullshit.

    flat earthers existing doesnt put the earth’s sensual curves up for debate either.

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      1 year ago

      It’s Cybersecurity.

      100%

      Absolutely.

      Adblocking is good cybersecurity practice. It puts into stark relief how much of Marketing is actually just manipulation and malware.

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      1 year ago

      It’s one of Lienus’s L takes. People are giving it the benefit of a doubt because he has a huge following.

      I started parroting “using a VPN to bypass region block is privateering” in response. LMG taking any VPN sponsorships after that L take is hypocrisy in my book.

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        Why hyprocisy? It’s a fair point to say circumventing paying in some way is piracy. It’s possible, so anyone can decide for themselves.

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          1 year 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.