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1. Evelyn fra denne andre øya (evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 22:23:51 JST Evelyn fra denne andre øya

   "adblocking is piracy" discourse is incredible to me because it starts from the assumption I have a problem with piracy. "Oh look at me, I feel bad because someone copied something" okay, grow up

   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 22:23:49 JST Moon

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     @evelyn "youtube wouldn't survive without ads"
     
     the internet can go back to 1995 for all i care
   • Evelyn fra denne andre øya (evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 22:23:50 JST Evelyn fra denne andre øya

     in reply to

     I think it's a more evil line than some of the rhetoric on piracy, because of how much advertising relies on coercion. As far as "conventional" piracy goes, simply not watching or listening to or playing something is not a catastrophic loss, but you'll find it much harder to get by without using online services, and this "choice" to not sit in a cave with the lights off, is "consent".
     
     Since you "consented", it's now morally fine to advertise alcohol and gambling, to push scams, to display huge "DOWNLOAD NOW" ads on filesharing sites, to push size bloat on users with limited data tariffs, to waste CPU time, to shorten the lifespan and battery life of devices, and to increase the rate of attrition/upgrade which contributes to electronic waste.

     Machismo repeated this.