Re:ReVanced
by endisneigh on Friday March 25, 2022 @01:28PM
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If you don’t watch the videos, then you won’t see the ads, no?
Re:ReVanced
by matheusmoreira on Friday March 25, 2022 @02:58PM
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Yeah, but I'll watch the videos anyway. Because they're free, I'm not obligated to pay attention to ads and uBlock Origin gets rid of them.
Nothing is “free”
Re:ReVanced
by matheusmoreira on Friday March 25, 2022 @06:09PM
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Sure it is. At no point does YouTube charge me any money before streaming any of their videos. They send it to my browser absolutely free of charge.
They do so hoping that I'm gonna look at the ads. I'm not obligated to make it happen.
> We don't have to justify it. We simply don't want to see ads. That's the end of it.
Replace "see ads" with "pay money." Pirates are thieves and content theft is piracy.
Re:ReVanced
by ohgodplsno on Friday March 25, 2022 @11:54AM
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Exactly. Because you know what's better than paid shit ? Free shit. Especially if it contributes to me not showing ads _and_ costing Google. I am happy to steal your precious, endlessly reproducible bytes.
Re:ReVanced
by matheusmoreira on Friday March 25, 2022 @11:12AM
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Nope. "Piracy" is just copyright infringement. It is literally just copying bits, no theft of any kind is occurring. The only loss here is the corporation's artificial monopoly rights which shouldn't even exist anyway.
We don't have to justify it. We simply don't want to see ads. That's the end of it. The second they insist on showing us ads despite our preferences, their software becomes malware and will be blocked.
And nobody is "taking" anything off anyone's plate. They're the ones sending us free stuff bundled with ads. We're just deleting the noise. Just like ripping ads out of magazines and throwing them away.