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I know the topic of whether adblock is piracy is debated, but I am guessing there are a lot of adblock users here and I was wondering if anyone has seen the youtube adblock warning message in the wild. I use ublock origin and still haven't seen it once.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would help on other websites and on some in-app ads from mobile devices

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but on the same browser it is redundant.

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

Redundancies being a bad thing is a very capitalist point of view.

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

In a capitalist POV, redundancy is just unneeded cost for things that are "not needed".

In an engineering POV redundancy is insurance to make sure things work as needed even when part of the system fails.

For example, Apollo flight computers were triple redundant, and the outputs from all three were compared before being fed into engines. If two outputs would be 0.98, but one was 0.12, it's most likely that the third one is wrong and should be discarded. This makes it very likely that correct control intput is given to the engines all times and the whole thing would not crash and burn because of a random bit flip.