i know this is extremely unlikely to happen, but imagine if both mozilla and google decides to remove adblock extensions in every way, if that happens, would you still pirate?
Some people might say about *arr aplications, but imo that wouldnt work, simply because without adblocks, the trackers would do something to stop it.
lol, what? Ad Blocking doesn’t protect you from being discovered committing piracy, VPN’s do
i have no idea what connection you think there is between piracy and adblockers. if anything, wouldn’t killing all adblockers encourage more piracy, not less?
You can disable JS or use LibreJS to disable proprietary JS code.
Many of us was already a pirate before Mozilla, Google and adblocks were created.
i would just disable js
Blocking ads its not piracy.
I think it’s a qoute from some sitcome, I don’t remember where I heard it. But it’s “Not watching the ads is like stealing TV!”. And it’s about just changing the channel during an ad break. It’s clearly a joke, too. But maybe some people actually believe that.
It’s quoting Linus Tech Tips. And he’s being mostly genuine about it.
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I would just use an /etc/hosts blocklist for adblock. Impossible for that to go away as long as ads are served over the internet
It would just bring back street crime and physical boosting and robbery. Same thing for blocking porn… all the creepy 70/80/90s shit would come back…
I really hate ads, too. But I don’t think I would be turning to street crime because of them.
“OH they put ads everywhere and won’t let me hide them? Looks like it’s time for me to become a domestic terrorist”
There will always be adblock in some form, it can’t be removed.
But even if it somehow happened, I don’t see how that would affect my pirating. Sure, some torrent sites might be a bit harder to navigate, but that’s just an inconvenience.
They can remove adblocks all they want.
Private DNS will still exist, there’s at least two that have noads DNS, Mullvad and LibreDNS.
They work in most browser’s/devices etc.
And if, a browser will be forked that can still use the extension interface.
For people who pirate because they can’t afford the increasingly more expensive games, how does the removal of adblocks change anything?
I mean, there are still private, adfree trackers and things and I’ve been pirating before even Napster was a thing and the Internet was rife with malicious ads and popups. If anything, I’d pirate harder out of spite.
