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@ A_Random_Idiot @lemmy.world

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  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • You’re bypassing payment (in the form of watching ads)

    By this argument going to the bathroom during a commercial break is piracy.

    This isnt "someone being offended when accused of piracy"

    This is " People getting upset when an idiot tries to blame end users, instead of holding the people who created the problem accountable"

    Cause adblock isnt a user problem.

    Its an ad service problem. They created a hostile environment where people had to run adblockers to protect themselves against unmoderated and unpoliced content and malicious/infected advertising.

    If you have issues, blame the people who caused it, not the end users trying to protect themselves.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • you do realize that ads appear in more places than just youtube, right?

  • Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy?

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  • Yeah, the up/down system is what prompted lots of bots to get created in the first place. because it leads to super easy post manipulation.

    Get rid of it and go back to how web forums used to be. No upvotes, No downvotes, no stickers, no coins, no awards. Just the content of your post and nothing more. So people have to actually think and reply, rather than joining the mindless mob and feeling like they did something.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • This is why I love my username.

    Cause its low hanging fruit that people who can mount no actual counter point cant resist the urge to reach for.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • The economic reality is that I have to use adblocking because ad services refuse to police and moderate their system. Thats the economic reality that they created.

    Having a problem with the end user protecting themselves from what the advertisers and their ad services created is just trying to shift blame.

  • Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy?

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  • which already happens with the stupid up/downvote system.

    Where popular things, not right things, frequently get uplifted.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • Adblocking isnt piracy, from any point of view.

    Its protection. Protection from sudden loud noises and visual diarrhea. Protection from malware and viruses from random website ads, and protection from Right Wing Extremist Propaganda like PragerU videos detailing how the black man should be grateful for the history of slavery and oppression (which has had a documented, factual effect on driving people into right wing extremist behavior, and the violent rhetoric and actions that inevitably follow)

    As long as all of that exists, Adblocking will never be piracy. Adblocking is, and will be, mandatory protection.

    And if Linus, or anyone else, wants to clutch pearls and cry about adblocking.. They can take their complaints to Google/Facebook/Other Ad services, because their lack of moderation and inability to policing content on their services are directly responsible for creating the necessity for adblocking.

  • Bots are running rampant. How do we stop them from ruining Lemmy?

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  • A system like that sounds like it could be easily abused/manipulated into creating echo chambers of nothing but agreed-to right-think.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • We should all endeavor to learn from your shining example.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • My ass he cares if you do it safely.

    He's just trying to pull views from the current controversy. Which I have no problem with, thats what youtubers do. They try to ride every wave and pull viewers from it.

    I just take issue with the smug hypocrisy he exhibits while doing it.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • It was in the streams with Luke. I dont remember the exact ones, I'm sorry. I can say that the last time I saw it was years ago, though, but thats because I stopped watching his content years ago.

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    actually found a clip embedded in another site, i'm shocked.

    https://youtu.be/a-PH2GUy_zM

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • Weird take, but you do you man.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • I would wager money on the suspicion that deep down, Linus probably still thinks he did nothing wrong.

    And that the actual change only came about because the people around him (like his wife and executives) threatened/forced him into changing positions.

    Cause we got a good glimpse into the kind of person Linus was when that whole thing started, by selling the prototype that wasnt his, then going out and lying about being in contact with the company, who he lied about forgiving him and making a deal to make up for it... Which was quickly rebuked by GN asking the company if Linus had contacted them, to which they said "No"

    And the kind of guy that does that kind of shit, isnt the kind of guy that suddenly goes "Okay, I screwed Up, I did it, I'm sorry" without someone behind the scenes threatening catastrophic personal consequences.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • You have to understand shit like these thumbsnails arent made for people like you and me.

    They are made for the mindless horde of sub-intellectual gremlins who are incapable of rational, independent thought. The kind that run out and put sandpaper on their windshield wipers and microwave their phones to "fast recharge" them because they saw a video that said to do that.

    and the sad, terrifying reality, is these mentally stunted little goblins outnumber us by margins that are too terrifying to even think about.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • Funny, considering in the past he's gone on big rants about how adblocking is no different from piracy, and is theft.

    But then again, its Linus we're talking about, its not like he has a particularly big issue with theft anymore.

  • Reality can be disappointing

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  • You don't even have to. Most the time they'll take whatever innocent topic/comment at had and somehow twist it into Russia/China Good, America/West bad.

  • YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers

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  • "Should we moderate our ads and get rid of 2 hour long ads, disinformation, porn,scams and fake products?"

    "No, no. Thats to much effort. Lets spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to force people to watch our 2 hour long ads, disinformation, porn, scams and fake products. Thats clearly the way forward."

    This decision process brought to you by Prager U proceeds into 30 minutes about how slavery was good for the black man and he should be grateful for it

  • Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

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  • FAT32 is the java of file systems. Works everywhere, on anything. But everyone hates it.

  • If you bought a 3D printer for personal use, was it worth it?

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  • financially worth it?

    Probably not.

    Did it give me brief respites of light against the clawing, ever encroaching abyssal darkness of life and misery?

    Yes.