- YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
- Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
- Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
Any one else watch the Linux tech tips video (degooglefying) where he tried to claim blocking ads was Piracy.
That pissed me off because blocking ads is honestly just protecting yourself against viruses which appear even on ads on Google etc.
Also who am I depriving of their property by blocking ads, F you linus.
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I mean… It probably is. It’s accessing the copyrighted content outside of the terms of the license provided by the copyright owner.
But that shows more how broken the copyright system is than anything when piracy has such a low bar.
To be honest unless I have a cutlass at linus’s throat and take something away from him he can never get again. To me it’s not Piracy.
I mean why should be watching a YouTube video which ultimately bores me and skipping the silly ads I would never ever buy anyway count as taking Linus’s personal property from him. It’s stupid. Honestly to me any YouTube ad is just guaranteeing I will never ever purchase it anyway as the ad just annoys me to that point.
Honestly ads personally piss me off to the point that company is never ever getting even a penny from me.
Not sure why you feel the need to defend your actions by drawing analogies with real piracy - it’s their attitude towards you as a content consumer that you should note in this situation, and that’s just appaling. Your actions may well be piracy but frankly that’s just a word they use to guilt you out of choosing convenience and safety. Be a pirate and be proud, goddammit!
So you think defending myself against viruses is Piracy. Go you.
To be fair In my teenage years I used to write these things for fun, I’m on a vpn now so pretty safe but I’ll honestly warn you to be aware of ads everywhere, even the name brand ones.
If you let them through you are truthfully putting your pc at serious risk nomatter what Google or Linus claims, the vast majority of ads come through ads the rest are from dipshits downloading freestuff.exe but yeah mostly through real ads.
Why can it not be both? It is piracy because you access content that should be payed with your time (ads) instead of money, by bypassing the front door/line of ads and going in through the backdoor.
You do guard yourself from virus and some data hording and it can also be true that you don’t find it worth it of your time and only want to consume without interruptions.
I also use an ad blocker. It is the first thing I install on a browser. The internet is impossible to navigate in without it and I try to only use sites without ads if possible… But I do believe it is piracy to block it, and it is my choice.
I only pay for nebula and Spotify so all the creators who is on there at least get something from me. But I don’t know if that is even close to enough.
Linus is not one of them and will never be haha (I rarely like any of their video formats)