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.

  • AdventureSpoon@kbin.social
    3·
    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.

    • j4yc33@kbin.social
      1·
      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.

    • ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc
      01·
      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.

      • nani8ot@lemmy.ml
        0·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc
          01·
          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.

    • LeHappStick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Is it now? then I’ll do it harder.

      Sadly youtube has all the sweet content, all these alternatives are lacking on that main thing, content.

  • bonegolem@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    ReVanced and Newpipe on mobile, SmartTube on TV, uBlock origin on Vivaldi and LibreWolf (currently in the middle of switching).

    Seen nothing on any of those. They’re all working flawlessly, for now.