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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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[–] [email protected] 451 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The only mistake Billy made is giving anything to AdBlock Plus, the people who have sided WITH the ads, instead of uBlock Origin, the true MVPs of the ad blocking world. I guess uBlock doesn't accept donations unfortunately, but still, ABP is shady and I would not support them.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some of the block list maintainer do accept donations, if I recall.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago

I did a quick search and they don't make it easy. Peter Lowe's ad and tracking server blocklist is the only one I found. EasyList doesn't seem to have a donation link, nor Dan Pollock at someonewhocares.org. Also worth noting that UBO doesn't take donations. You could always subscribe to AdGuard, but that's mixed.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Ad block is NOT piracy. And use Ublock Origin.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Technically we are just keeping the waters clean of unusable, useless garbage. The ad corps are invading our waters.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

uBlock Origin is also not piracy, but it is the real way to block

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you buy premium, do it to support the creators you watch, fuck doing it just for no ads.

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

If you buy premium your doing both.

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

Yes, but if I was only doing it for no ads, I'd rather just use ad block. Instead, I'm doing to to support the creators I watch in the laziest way possible, because I'm letting Google do all the work to spread the money out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SmartTube (for Android TV) accepts donations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And it runs great! Only solution for YT on TV.

[–] Titou 9 points 1 month ago

ADP betrayed us, ublock origin is better

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Abp is complete garbage. Use Ublock origin.

[–] Dreamless4561 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Should support uBlock Origin and AdGuard, the maintainers of EasyList too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

uBO doesn't accept donations and AdGuard is a commercial entity that was more than enough money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

PeerTube go!