So this started coming up today. On every video. I can (so far) click the “x” and remove it to watch (still see 2 ads before the video, and one after 4 minutes - ruins music on YT), but did click the “Report issue” only for the dialogue box not to work.
I found a link to a that said 11% use adblock. Thats not a lot.Maaayyyybe there is a problem with the amount of ads youtube forces down our throats for even short videos. 🤷♂️
The payment for the service is coming from the ad owners. Me choosing not to download parts of a webpage isn’t piracy, it’s me choosing not to download certain parts of a web page. Nobody has any right to force data I don’t want onto my computer except me. Piracy is illegal, adblocking is not (so far).
This isn’t like you copied a game and cracked the DRM. An adblocker just strips out the HTML and javascript needed to display an ad. It’s not different than if you turned off images in your browser like we used to do back in the day on dialup to make it load faster.
Subsequently, the owner of the website also has the right to not serve you parts of a web page. It’s a two-way street mate. This argument that a service provider is obligated to give you everything you want without any conditions simply does not stand up to any real scrutiny.
You’re absolutely right. I didn’t say they don’t. But as long as they still do let me access it, I’ll keep using an adblocker on their website. Once the spigot gets turned off for good, I’ll move elsewhere.
So if I understand correctly, you define the border of piracy as the technicality of websites where the HTML and JS are accessible as opposed to a binary that comes with built-in DRM.
How do you think about DRM-free games?
We’ve had the capability to pick and choose what we want to download from a website since the first web browsers. Why are ads any different? It’s the same as if I decide to strip out all HTML frame and table tags just for shits and giggles. Would you call that piracy?
It’s my device, and I decide what to accept from the website. If they want to block me completely, they can do that too. But they don’t. Not yet.
I also have no stomach for downloading 10 megabytes worth of ads and trackers for a website where the actual content is like, 300 kilobytes. THAT is complete bullshit.