LinusTechTips: Ad Blocking Is Piracy

https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1486925588199718912

by orphea • 4 years ago

7 15 4 years ago

Not as long as I own my own computer. Does my computer use CPU to display your ad? Yes. Do I get to control my computer? Yes, we're not a socialist state yet, nor are we a fascist state. It's mine. I will do what I please.

thfuran2• 4 years ago

Yeah, sure. Just like since my car is mine, I spend my weekends driving over my neighbors' mailboxes and no one has any right to complain because I'm just using my car as I please. Only socialists and fascists could complain about that.

bediger40003• 4 years ago

Not the same thing - broken analogy.

If anything is the case, web advertisers are using my car to drive to my mailbox and stuff it full of crap. Just like email spammers of the past, web advertisers are externalizing the costs of their ads onto all of us. They are morally in the wrong.

manuelabeledo2• 4 years ago

Socialism doesn't disallow private property of consumer goods.

bediger40003• 4 years ago

I just threw that in as a lightning rod. In the USA, at least, "socialism" or "communism" or "radical left" is just something that conservatives use to label anything they don't like.

manuelabeledo2• 4 years ago

While I understand their point, I wouldn't call this "piracy".

Ads have become too invasive in recent years. Not only they make certain websites painful to read, they also enabled a whole industry dedicated to invade users' privacy.

And I admit that the main counterpoint to this would be to just stop consuming content from these creators. But ads are so pervasive these days, I would argue that going down that route would make most of the mainstream Internet useless.

choward• 4 years ago

It's not just privacy concerns but other even more serious security concerns. I ad block mainly to remove an attack vector.

johnklos• 4 years ago

If we could trust common and popular ad networks, that'd be one thing. But considering how many, like Google's, allow scammers to insert whatever Javascript they want, to load content from wherever, to be used to push Trojans and phishing sites, we owe them nothing.

I have no problem loading ads to support sites I like, but I won't because the amount of memory and CPU they require is ridiculous, and none of the advertising networks make a point to punish scammers.

db48x• 4 years ago

LinusTechTips videos are a lot more pleasant to watch if you have uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock installed, and you are selective about which sponsored videos you watch.

trinovantes• 4 years ago

If you have premium there are no ads to block. Why bother blocking ads on YouTube? :p
Premium is a huge benefit to creators. It pays us way more. - LS

Now I'm starting to wonder how much they make from premium viewers

rasz• 4 years ago

AVE did a breakdown some time ago. Watching annoying ass ads was worth something like $0.007 per view aka Google taking home 90% aka no need to feel guilty over it. One patreon supporter easily offloaded >1-10K free viewers.

errantmind• 4 years ago

I control what my computer displays (period). Good luck trying to take that away from me.

JMS2021• 4 years ago

Doesn't he make money from videos that promote emulation? That's copyright infringement.

LinusTechTips: Ad Blocking Is Piracy

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