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Nope, for blocking ads. Don't feel bad either, I myself pirated a bunch when I was a teen, for instance. Just intellectual honesty, that's all.
You don't think it's a little hypocritical to call people stealing when they're just skipping ads automatically? You see a huge moral gulf between clicking a button and having a piece of software click the button? You pirated a bunch of stuff when you were a teen and now you're on your moral high horse over someone blocking an ad or 300?
Yes. And I always was open about piracy I was just broke, but I didn't lie.
Many ads are unskippable nowadays.
Skip 'em with an ad blocker for the win. Better experience, and you don't have to pay megacorps with megaprofits your own money.
Skip the cashier in the big box store, same arguments.
No, because that would be theft - taking something from its owner with the intent to permanently deprive them off ownership. Nothing is removed when you watch a video.
Spoken like someone who has never paid electricity, bandwidth, storage, hardware...
You can talk as much crap as you like, watching a video without ads isn't theft.
If it helps you sleep at night, sure buddy.
You're being a bit weird about this.
About calling a spade a spade?
You're trying really hard, for days and days, trying to make me feel guilty about skipping ads, and it's just not working. At all. But you persist. It's weird.
I don't care how you feel, really. Skipping ads and blocking ads is different, btw.
Not really.
You struggle also with the concept of consent? Smh...
I don't consent to watching the same ads over and over. I don't consent to them being downloaded onto my computer against my will. You consent, that's fine. You enemies consent to sending the richest corporations on the globe your hard earned cash so you can avoid the same ads I don't want, and they still send you ads. I don't know why you like that stuff, but I don't. I'm in charge of what I do and don't download onto my computer.
Then don't watch/read the content. Don't consent Samsung/appke/Walmart getting your money? Don't buy their shit. Ez.
Oh, I consent to the content. Just not to the ads, so I stream the content and my software skips the ads for me automatically. Couldn't be simpler. Puts me in control over what I do and don't download onto my computer. I'm not buying anything.
The author doesn't consent to you blocking ads, simple as that. Might consent to skipping. Some. In certain situations.
A shop giving you a free sample of cheese doesn't mean you can fill your pockets with the contents of the cash register.
It's my computer, not theirs. Watching a video isn't the same as taking money, you seem to have a lot of confusion on this point.
Again, spoken truly as someone who never paid for bandwidth, storage, compute, power, rent, ac, salaries...