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Re:YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers by yummypaint on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:08AM (#36533439)
It's important to remember that piracy and theft are also capitalist practices. Companies routinely break the law and do unethical things, and consider it a sucess as long as money was made overall. Yet there is somehow this sense that individual consumers MUST play by the unfair rules often set up by these monopolies themselves. The incredible asymmetry in how copyright law is abused is an example. These companies deserve the same level of contempt they show their users.
Re:YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers by acdha on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:39AM (#36535705)
Nobody is saying consumers MUST do anything. YouTube is not oxygen, if you don’t like it you can live a perfectly full and rich life without it.