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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. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://files.catbox.moe/a6111d.png / https://nitter.poast.org/LinusTech/status/1825956050685800834

If you go the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY. You will see it's gone. So Youtube being Youtube.

Here's a Odysee mirror of the video, https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

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

Did Linus blame anyone though?
No. He simply stated a fact.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

Only you didn't go to the bathroom. The ad just never appeared.

Chances of you getting up and leaving the room every time an ad comes on: 10%.

Chances of you blocking an ad with an ad-blocker: 100%.

This isnt "someone being offended when accused of piracy"

I think it very clearly is.

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

Whether it is piracy or not has nothing to do with blame or responsibility. You're still just taking personal offense to being called a pirate and conjuring up nonsense arguments to combat it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Chances of you getting up and leaving the room every time an ad comes on: 10%.

Actually I have a track record of 100% getting up to do stuff when ads happen

Like what are you even doing in your life bro?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Using ad blockers. What are you doing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ad blocker on a tv broadcast, sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I haven't watched TV since 2007...