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Re:ReVanced by judge2020 on Friday March 25, 2022 @10:46AM (#30802797)
It's at least 'profiteering' off of the current state of YouTube, where anyone that uses an ad-blocking mechanism (desktop or mobile) is effectively being subsidized by the premium subscribers and mobile users without adblock.
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Re:ReVanced by 2Gkashmiri on Saturday March 26, 2022 @07:34AM (#30810968)
profiteering is earning. what are the devs of vanced earning?
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Re:ReVanced by judge2020 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @10:24AM (#30812050)
I mean the users using any ad blocking mechanism, including (re)vanced or simply ublock origin. YouTube isn't free for Google to host.
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Re:ReVanced by 2Gkashmiri on Saturday March 26, 2022 @10:37AM (#30812193)
that is not same as profiteering. leeching maybe but "profiteering" is what brave does with replacing google ads with their own so that they show their ads and earn instead of google. that is not what anyone with ad block is doing..

nothing in life is free. everyone knows that. you and me know that. we use adblock regardless of that knowledge. how is this argument used against vanced now since we have accepted the necessity for ublock orign?

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Re:ReVanced by kaba0 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @06:16PM (#30815867)
Also, it’s not like youtube isn’t popular exactly due to the freely generated content on it, not in spite of their hosting costs.
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