Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo...
by dmonitor on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @06:46PM
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bandwidth and hosting have associated costs. unlike piracy, which is just creating copies, this is using Google’s electricity to provide you a service without giving anything in return.
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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo...
by angoragoats on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @08:03PM
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Google is always free to stop serving me anything at all if they choose to.
However, once they serve me something and it’s received by my user agent, I will use that user agent however I see fit to parse and display (or not display) that content.
Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo...
by dmonitor on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @04:06PM
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well, that's what's happening now and everyone is whining about it
Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo...
by angoragoats on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @07:23PM
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What? What is happening now?
I’ll rephrase my position: Google is free to ban my IP, require a payment before serving me videos, or whatever else they feel is appropriate to stop me from using their electricity without being compensated appropriately. But if they serve me a page containing a video, I have every right to instruct the software on my device to render that video however I see fit. This in no way is morally or legally comparable to stealing, theft, fraud, or whatever other words people are throwing around.