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Denying profit to corporations is theft, so using adblockers will be put on the same level as digital piracy. How dare you consume content without letting your eyeballs get force-fed ads.
ME - "Not looking at the billboard when driving to work"
Police - "STOP! You violated a law!"
WHY, WONT, YOU, BUY?!
after all that capital invested in marketing people better fucking buy. coca cola now spends more on marketing than on producing the products. they are literally spending hundreds of millions of dollars to advertise the best know brand in the world.
To this day, I have never bought something because of an ad. I get the concept of letting people know your product exists, but I know Raid Shadow Legends exists already and I am not interested, so fuck off.
I would like to tell everyone that Raid: Shadow Legends is a shitty game and nobody should play it.
This message is brought to you by me, a private citizen with a desire for you not to waste your time.
So you admit that you're a thief? If you see an ad it's MANDATORY to buy that product otherwise the owner of the ad spent money for that ad for nothing!!!
Guilty as charged, your honor.
Absolutely right. In fact, it should be illegal to see a product for sale and not immediately buy it. How dare you see a helpless corporation in need of money, freezing in the streets, and not immediately empty your wallet in exchange for trinkets that they so lovingly engineered to break in a set amount of time? You monster!
You wouldn't block a car.
I would if I could. Fuck cars.
For a sec. I thought were fr in the first sentence. Then i remembered wich platform we're on and why that probably is.
Using ad blockers is piracy, insofar as you're avoiding paying the price the content provider has set for that content. The price is watching the ads, rather than being something directly monetary, and you're not paying it.
That said, neither that nor piracy are theft, and in both cases I gladly pirate because the prices in most instances have gotten away too high for what you get. Either in terms of subscription cost, or the time and quantity of ads delivered.
If blocking ads is piracy, then ad-viewing is equated to money and showing ads while either failing to provide the service the user wanted or not providing any at all is theft.
This is a bit of a chicken and an egg scenario. Who pays first? The user, the content creator, or the content host?
I couldn't care less. If my adblocker is that final straw that caused a company to go out of business, brings on the collapse of the internet as a whole, and ultimately the breakdown of western civilization, then all of it deserves to die. With that knowledge, I'd still update by block lists and donate to adblocking projects.
The user "pays" the creator and host at the same time by watching an ad, so it depends on when it plays. Not sure what you're getting at.
Based
From what I understand, Youtube ain't paying for content anyway. Creators are routinely being de-monitized
Yeah this sentiment can fuck right off
What? That piracy is fine and people should be honest with themselves about doing it?
Piracy is a service issue - just like adblocking, not a payment issue
It can certainly be both. A worse service might be worth a cheaper price. And people will pay extra for good service. That's literally the airline ticket business model.
It was also 100% a payment issue back when I was a broke student and paying for things simply wasn't an option. The fact that Steam offered a more convenient service than the pirates at the time was irrelevant because I couldn't afford it.
This is a good point.
If you cannot pay, then you either pirate or not - you don't buy, because you can't. In either case, the producer loses nothing, because there is nothing to gain.
In the other case where you could pay, but doing so is much more painful than pirating, the producer is the idiot - they made it painful to buy. They are losing sales not because people don't want to pay but because they make buying the product painful.