Thread 107062590

Does /g/ block ads even after knowing its not the right thing to do?

If I wasn't blocking ads already I would start just to hurt Linus Sebastian specifically.

>>107062590 (OP)
Not only I block ads with UBO, but I also use SponsorBlock
Linus can get fucked

>>107062590 (OP)
It's not my fault his entire business model runs on advertisements. It's his fault for willingly engaging in an exploitative and obnoxious system, all so hecan accumulate and hoard personal wealth. How much do you want to bet that he pays e.g. an accountant to help him pay as little in possible in taxes? If he gets out of paying his fair share, I'm within my rights to not watch his advertisements. Simple as. He'd gladly take money from DraftKings (if they thought he was worth the money) same as everyone else. It's all interconnected.

>>107062590 (OP)
surveillance capitalism ruined modern IT
instead of affordable proprietary software for everyone corpos just extracting unholy amount of data from unholy amount of jeet's phones and offering bs subscriptions for basic functionality to white goys
modern web and apps constantly trying to scam you while getting every piece of data that can be used in getting "targeted" ads for you, this is causes bloat and low performance out of nowhere.
old good way of buying program like groceries is never coming back, until goolag and M$ are nationalized by government so the only way is being freetard. block ads, pirate, report bugs and participate in community of FOSS software

find some new bait

is he wrong? you're a leech
you can be against DRM bullshit and against people claiming the right to run and show whatever they want on your PC, or just dislike ads etc but is it not obvious that by doing so you are costing the site money? they still have to create that content and serve it, you're just freeloading on the fact there's enough people that don't freeload

>>107063174
Normies pay the ad tax so I can live off adblock neetbux

>>107063174
>is he wrong? you're a leech
If your content's so good, paywall it.

i would if they stuck to that 'acceptable ads' initiative. e.g. Google AdWords, just text in a small font.

watching an actual video, with sound? that's way, way worse than a flashing banner ever was.

>>107062590 (OP)
why not sell access to your service directly? Oh right, that's because you won't be able to make money off of impressionnable children by shoving ads in their face.

>ad blocking hurts creators!!
>kills his own computer because he can't read
Why should I trust what a tech illiterate retard like Linus says?

>>107062590 (OP)
kys bootlicker

>>107062590 (OP)
ads and profit chasing have cause the massive enshittification wave of the internet.
we need to go back to how it used to be in the late 90s and early 2000s

blocking ads is the right thing to do annd no amount of bait will stop that from being true

>>107062590 (OP)
Lienus can't hit 1m views anymore lmao. Lost all his talent.

>>107065480
how much moneys he got? can he stop everything and never work a day in his life?

>>107062590 (OP)
>adblock is theft
>stealing people’s prototypes and auctioning them off isn’t
>stealing people’s content and not even citing them isn’t
>demanding other people come to your events to make you money isn’t
>breeding with browns and hiring browns in your shitty company isn’t
Topkek.

>>107062590 (OP)
Yes ofc
99% of people don't use adblock so it's not even a problem

I'm ok with it being piracy. I actually wish it was theft so that I could directly harm people by blocking ads.

>>107062590 (OP)
I won't browse the web if I can't block ads, I already left a job because I could not.

>>107062655
>How much do you want to bet that he pays e.g. an accountant
He's married to one.

>>107066017
I’m always amazed at his wife’s ugliness.

>>107062590 (OP)
>Install adblockers on your corporate computers, antivirus is fighting last-decade's battles.
:)

>>107062590 (OP)
Linus BTFO by uBlock Origin in a couple of paragraphs.
https://github.com/gorhill/ublock

>>107062590 (OP)
Holy fuck that's retarded logic. I block ads because I don't give a shit about any of them and I don't want them interrupting whatever I'm trying to engage with. Even if there was an ad for 90% off something I badly wanted and that deal wasn't available in any other way I still wouldn't want to see that ad.

>>107066252
Dude had Ella Hollywood publicly lusting after him yet he settled for this. Crazy shit.

Blocking ads is the right thing to do.

>>107062590 (OP)
>Ad blocking is piracy
Yes, so what?

>>107066345
>Linus BTFO by uBlock Origin
To be fair, anyone could blow his point pretty hard with simple arguments, because you can't steal something if you're just blocking parts of the something.
It's as if M$ argued that you're a criminal for installing a firewall in your network so windows can't phone home to send your private information, specially knowing that windows costs well over 150$ for a home license and almost every pre-built computer comes with one.

>>107066345
All an ad needs to be is a simple png or gif on your website, which uBlock doesn't block

using the interweb without blocking ads is like wallking barefooted in a dumpyard

>>107062590 (OP)
uBlock Origin on medium mode is a necessity in the modern web. I don't use sponsor block though. If you have sponsor segments and I don't want that, I'll just not watch your videos. Youtubers lost the power to choose not to have ads though, so I don't see a moral problem with that.

>>107067122
>uBlock Origin on medium mode
>on medium mode
Chromefag.

>>107067201
I haven't used anything but Firefox and elinks since like 2009 lmao

Yes
>nooo you can't block ads, how will I make money
not my problem + your ads suck and make everything worse + shut your punk ass up + if you sell nothing maybe you make nothing of actual value + follow a business model that actually works without relying on you crying like a bitch about how it doesn't work without you crying like a bitch about it

>>107062590 (OP)
who died and made you a king of what's right?

It's not about right and wrong, it's self defense. Ads and influencers and "creators" are literally trying to hurt you. They despise you.
Stand up for yourself.

>>107062590 (OP)
>block ads
hosts file
adblocking dns
UBO with a shitton of filters and custom filters

What else?

>>107067337
There's no "medium" mode on uBlock Origin, faggot. It's a uBlock Lite "feature".

I pirated software with my friends on our Apple //e's. I pirated software on our Amigas. I pirated media off Compu$erve and Usenet. I pirated music off Limewire (Napster was for normies) and I don't even remember what I was pirating off eDonkey.
With torrents now, I pirate damn near everything that can possibly be put into some kind of digital form.
I've been pirating since before most of y'all here have been alive. I doubt I'm going to turn over a new leaf at this point. So yeah, I block any ad I can figure out a way to block, and if I can't block it I just don't go there.
I would hope everyone here does the same damn thing. If that somehow hurts the corporate thugs, well, fuck 'em.

>>107067587
I bet you are also a butt pirate smuggling nigger cum in your rectum

>>107067431
>hosts file
>adblocking dns
That's doing the same thing twice.

Not only do I block all ads, but if I see any I will just stop using the service LOL!

>>107067104
Per site rules are common in filter lists.
The only way to not get filtered is to constantly changing HTML structure so that filter lists could not keep up the cat and mouse game.
With just pictures, the webmaster can't even detect if the user has interacted or if it has seen the ad, so there is no metric for an advertising company to pay him.

>>107066983
whos gonna tell him

>>107067711
They could use a referrer. Yeah people like us bypass those too, but still.

>>107062655
I remember how advertising was supposed to allow to keep websites usable and it was supposed to be sensible and ethitcal.
Now it is impossible to read any website without an adblocker because they are shoving everything down your throat.
Not even talking about the user tracking.

>>107067517
https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/blocking-mode:-medium-mode
Nice try though

>>107067752
If it starts with a J, I already know.

>>107067780
>so you go there then you toggle this then that and after this and then-
Wait a minute anon.This isn't an actual mode at all!

Didn't these guys force an 18 year old girl into self harming because they were bullying her for not wanting to fuck the LTT employees? I think James was one of the guys that was pressuring her to fuck him then started bullying her when she rejected him. Even Linus pressured her to go on a date with him after she complained to him.

>>107065348
>early 2000s
>SAY SOMETHING
>WHAAAT
What about an ad section, like newspaper classifieds? That way people who give a fuck might check.

>>107067083
his argument is about (implied) contracts and tort
in that he argues that theres an implied contract between the creator and the viewer, whereby the creator (only) offers their content at the performance of watching advertisements
not watching the advertisements would be tort, as you are not upholding your part of the contract
that makes a little sense until you realise there was never any contract implied to begin with, and even if there was, it would only be between the viewer and the video platform because the creator never directly offers the content in exchange for the act of watching ads
the platform is solely responsible for the transaction

>>107067805
I don't even know what the fuck uBlock Lite is, but when some zoomer tells me three clicks are too much to set something up, I think I'm getting too old for this board.

>>107067778
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFYasDoJ-98

advertising has never been ethical, it is fundamentally incapable of being ethical
the whole premise is to manipulate you

>>107067885
Sure you don't.

>>107067784
its called a carousel

>>107067896
>the whole premise is to manipulate you
The entire field of marketing is to manipulate people into making a purchase decision (that they otherwise would not have.) First thing you learn on the first day of a first-year marketing course in university, or on the first few pages of an introductory marketing textbook. It is the devil's work, and there is a special circle in hell for advertisers.

>>107062590 (OP)
It absolutely is the right thing to do, ads pose a huge security risk, ads engage in unsolicited data consumption, ads are invasive, ads track your activities. It is ontologically correct to block advertisements.

>>107062590 (OP)
I'd leave ads on if they weren't always taking a mile because I gave them an inch.
That and youtube just blasting me with porn ads because I made the mistake of connecting to university or hotel wifi once upon a time.

>>107067973
never have i been happier to believe in god than when justice calls for him most

>>107067990
thats not what ontologically means

>>107062590 (OP)
uh huh okay linus

>>107068028
Yes, do as I say!

>>107067431
sponsorblock if you consoom youtube
clearurls to remove affiliate cancer
umatrix if youre not rarted

>>107068028
Please delete this

>>107068028
kek

>>107062590 (OP)
>open website
>popup advertisement taking the whole screen
>banners that take 1/4th of the screen and can't be removed
>click anywhere, get redirected to dubious site
>get malware thanks to ads running random scripts
No thanks, I'll block ALL ads.

>>107062590 (OP)
I block ads precisely because it is the wrong thing to do. If it causes all these ad-monetized cucks to shut down - so be it.

>>107066345
TRVKE

>>107062634
Not only I block ads with UBO, I also block them at the DNS level with FreshTomato.

>>107062590 (OP)
(((advertisements))) are the bane of the Internet and they will bring the Internet down with them.

I wish it hurt them more

>>107062590 (OP)

>Don’t hide my ads
>Well I do it sometimes
>But still don’t do it

>>107062590 (OP)
>s not the right thing
blocking ads is always the morally right thing to do

people who argue that invasive adverts are necessary for their business model are parasites.

>inb4 muh creators
bitch people will always create, and fame leads to wealth outside the invasive online advert revenue stream. my adblocker isn't going to do shit to their merch or patreon

>>107062590 (OP)
>2022

Quality thread, OP.

>>107068028
Oof.

You guys remember a few years ago when Firefox shat the bed and suddenly we were all seeing ads again?
It was pretty brutal. How can normies live like this?

>>107072223
most normies don't actually browse the internet any more not even kidding