Track_ShovelI'm tired, Boss
lapislazuliThere are still many miles left in you, don’t give up!
I am next for not leaving a tip at the coffee shop.
… giving a tip before you actually get anything.
I am next for not leaving a tip at the self-checkout.
RBGI am next for not tipping my landlord.
567PrimeMoverThey'll have you tip your executioner, and the minimum amount the kiosk will allow is 22%
LeftHandedWaveIt will show 22%, but really be 35%.
We’ve come full circle.
EfreetSKYou monter! Did you know that ?
Remember, according to the small Canadian man, adblock is theft
But then again theft is not theft according to the same small Canadian man.
It’s only theft if he loses money.
DefederateLemmyMlAnd sexual harassment in the workplace is not actually sexual harassment either according to the same man.
Ootl --what’d he do this time?
He auctioned of a startups prototype without permission.
onlookerPiracy, actually, but yes. That tweet was such a dumpster fire. All it accomplished was it showed how grossly misinformed Linus was about this topic. How ad blocking equals copyright infringement is beyond me.
𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬He’s 100% Dependent of advertising on YouTube. So his statement is not only biased but completely in favor of his income.
I’ve followed Linus off and on from the jump, but I’ma listen to actual security experts over him lol.
You get a 5 second delay before they flip the switch if you’re a firefox user.
Can I just say I use chrome so I can get executed instantly?
Yep, just change your user-agent and they’ll flip the switch immediately.
🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑“Remove element: Electric chair”
miss_brainfartZap element: Convict
Excuse me but my user agent says I am “prison warden”, not “Firefox convict”
Someone made a filter for that and it works well. It’s in one of the posts that talked about YouTube doing that (I think the one in the Technology sub).
Semi-Hemi-DemigodBe right behind you for having an unregistered 3D printer
How dare you!
He’s probably a filthy gun-printer!
Guns and dildos is pretty much all those things print!
But can those things print dildo guns?
Don’t do it! That’ll be the last straw and we’ll get registered for having too much fun.
No fun allowed!
I Cast Fist
ikiddYou can tell by the missing fingers.
starman2112I dread the day that a politician seriously tries to outlaw my adorable octopus machine
For refusing to drink the mountain dew verification can
jballsOnce they fully implement eyeball tracking to determine if you’re actually looking at ads, we’re all doomed.
bruhduhIt already was implemented in remote exams sooooo… As soon as society opinion is ready.
And the things we find horrifying now will just be normal to the next generation. Remember when we used the term “creepshot”? The youngest adults today don’t understand what that is.
For refusing to stand up and shout “McDonalds” at the smart TV.
Denying profit to corporations is theft, so using adblockers will be put on the same level as digital piracy. How dare you consume content without letting your eyeballs get force-fed ads.
For a sec. I thought were fr in the first sentence. Then i remembered wich platform we’re on and why that probably is.
Using ad blockers is piracy, insofar as you’re avoiding paying the price the content provider has set for that content. The price is watching the ads, rather than being something directly monetary, and you’re not paying it.
That said, neither that nor piracy are theft, and in both cases I gladly pirate because the prices in most instances have gotten away too high for what you get. Either in terms of subscription cost, or the time and quantity of ads delivered.
If blocking ads is piracy, then ad viewing time is equated to money and showing ads while either failing to provide the service the user wanted or not providing any at all is theft.
SchmooBased
mriormroThis is a bit of a chicken and an egg scenario. Who pays first? The user, the content creator, or the content host?
AntEaterWho pays first? The user, the content creator, or the content host?
I couldn’t care less. If my adblocker is the straw that caused a company to go out of business, brings on the collapse of the internet as a whole, and ultimately the breakdown of western civilization, then all of it deserves to die. With that knowledge, I’d still update by block lists and donate to uBlock Origin.
The user “pays” the creator and host at the same time by watching an ad, so it depends on when it plays. Not sure what you’re getting at.
Yeah this sentiment can fuck right off
What? That piracy is fine and people should be honest with themselves about doing it?
Piracy is a service issue - just like adblocking, not a payment issue
It can certainly be both. A worse service might be worth a cheaper price. And people will pay extra for good service. That’s literally the airline ticket business model.
It was also 100% a payment issue back when I was a broke student and paying for things simply wasn’t an option. The fact that Steam offered a more convenient service than the pirates at the time was irrelevant because I couldn’t afford it.
This is a good point.
If you cannot pay, then you either pirate or not - you don’t buy, because you can’t. On either case, the producer loses nothing, because there is nothing to gain.
In the other case where you could pay, but doing so is much more painful than pirating, the producer is the idiot - they made it painful to buy. They are losing sales not because people don’t want to pay bit because they make buying the product painful.
From what I understand, Youtube ain’t paying for content anyway. Creators are routinely being de-monitized
You wouldn’t block a car.
TakI would if I could. Fuck cars.
To this date, I have never bought something because of an ad. I get the concept of letting people know your product exists, but I know Raid Shadow Legends exists already and I am not interested, so fuck off.
So you admit that you’re a thief? If you see an ad it’s *MANDATORY * to buy that product otherwise the owner of the ad spend money for that ad for nothing!!!
Guilty as charged.
Justas🇱🇹I would like to tell everyone that Raid: Shadow Legends is a shitty game and nobody should play it.
This message is brought to you by me, a private citizen with a desire for you not to waste your time.