Current Events > Linus Tech Tips: Ad blocking is the exact same thing as piracy.

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I mean, without the ad revenue, people would be charging money for access. The ad revenue is the replacement for charging you directly.

Certainly, they can just charge you directly and you'd be happy then, right?

And Im sure enough of his subscribers would actually pay to hear him for that to be worth it

If I walk into a store that has an advertisement on the wall and I consciously choose not to look at it that isn't piracy. If I go to a website and consciously choose not to look at their ads it isn't piracy either. Neither is skipping ahead in a YouTube video to get past somebody's in video sponsorship. Neither is hanging up on a telemarketer.

Neither is skipping ahead in a YouTube video to get past somebody's in video sponsorship.

Honestly, the only ads that I actually watch are Internet Historians, only because his ads are the funniest shit to watch and I'm surprised the sponsors allow him to get away with half the shit does with them >_______>

Honestly, the only ads that I actually watch are Internet Historians, only because his ads are the funniest shit to watch and I'm surprised the sponsors allow him to get away with half the shit does with them >_______>

There's a bunch of compilations of them on youtube, but I guess my favorites the Raycon man ones and some of the Nord VPN ones >_> I'll link to them here:

https://youtu.be/XcPyjr8e8qw?t=923
https://youtu.be/XcPyjr8e8qw?t=1050
https://youtu.be/XcPyjr8e8qw?t=1290

Obviously. Its selfish, entitled people saying I want your content but I cant be inconvenienced even the slightest bit for you to get paid for it.

In that case I'm gonna start billing websites for their ads using up my data limits without my consent. It's practically theft

Isn't this why Patreon took off so hard? Content creators realised that people were blocking the ads on their videos and hampering their income - a fair few of them totally understanding the situation, themselves being fed up with the increasing monetization of YouTube - and began using a third party service where they offered a look behind the curtain in exchange for a consistent revenue stream from interested subscribers.

LinusTechTips could start a Patreon and advertise it at the end of his videos. Unless he already has one, which would be pretty :/ of him

Conte came up with the idea for Patreon in February 2013 due to his own financial situation: the small amount of ad revenue he expected from YouTube wouldnt come close to repaying the thousands of dollars he was expecting to spend on the Pedals music video (it ultimately cost $10,000). He believed there was a small subset of his audience who would be happy to help though, and to do so for each future video. He mocked-up his vision on 14 pieces of printer paper and, unable to build a software platform himself, reached out to his old Stanford roommate, Sam Yam.

When you watch cable tv, make sure to schedule your bathroom breaks during the movie so you don't miss a second of the commercial breaks. And you better not skip over any ads in the newspaper either!

hes not wrong
neither are bad to do though

When you watch cable tv, make sure to schedule your bathroom breaks during the movie so you don't miss a second of the commercial breaks. And you better not skip over any ads in the newspaper either!

That's an idiotic take. The fact cable TV has ads is absurd in and of it self WHEN IT ALREADY COSTS SO DAMN MUCH! My mother told me a story of when they first got cable, a relative was over watching a movie, and was rather dismayed there weren't commercials to use to take a leak. Because they were paying to see it on cable. The point being, once upon a time cable didn't have ads.

And I pay for the newspaper, hypothetically anyway, so it's my right as the purchaser of the product to decide which parts of it I read over.

That said, internet ads have become obnoxiously intrusive compared to what they were ten years ago or so. When I was a teenager, ads were usually a banner offering you a product or service to get your attention. Then they morphed into browser slowing monstrosities that had to flash, and play obnoxious videos and automatically expand over the page you're trying to read. Hell, once upon a time the worst ad I could ever see on a non-porn site was for Evony. And only because if someone walked in you had to explain the half naked chick on the side of the screen.

And I pay for the newspaper, hypothetically anyway, so it's my right as the purchaser of the product to decide which parts of it I read over.

That said, internet ads have become obnoxiously intrusive compared to what they were ten years ago or so. When I was a teenager, ads were usually a banner offering you a product or service to get your attention.

You have that right whether you pay for it or not. You are not obligated to watch ads on a public tv channel. Or in a free magazine. Or in a brochure that was put in your mailbox.

Besides, there are more differences between internet ads and the rest. To name a few, advertising in print or on TV never:
- install malware
- run crypto miners
- follow you around online
- construct a profile on you and sell it to others
- increase bandwith, driving up loading times and (potentially) costs

Not to mention the lack of editorial oversight that makes it more likely the ads are misleading, fraudulent or inappropriate. All things considered, I honestly believe ignoring tv/print ads is more unethical than blocking internet ads.

Internet advertisement in the late '90s - early '00s was pretty damn awful with popups everywhere. It wasn't until popup blocking software became popular (and later integrated in most browsers) that this problem was solved.

Does that void it being piracy though? It's okay to admit that sometimes piracy is good.

When YouTube stops doing shit like making ads unskippable, totally irrelevant to me (I dont' have a car, why do I need insurance), repetitive, and occasionally sneaking half hour plus long TV pilots into a 5 minute video, I will consider not blocking them.