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minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down24·21 hours agoWell, then don’t go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for: creators making the thing you so desperately want to watch disk space to store it bandwidth to send it around the world compute to transcode it and process it real estate and security for the premises power for the datacenter ac to cool the servers wages of workers to maintain that whole infrastructure wages of devs for the app yes, profits for the company Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don’t act like you are morally entitled to do it.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·6 hours agoblocking ads is not stealing
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoIs using up resources without paying for it. It’s stealing by any definition.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·5 hours agowho do you pay for all the oxygen you use up?
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·45 minutes agoOxygen is not produced by workers. Electricity, bandwidth, storage, security, software, video content are all produced by workers. For a commie you are quite unaware of the means of production…
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·38 minutes agoseems like you aren’t aware of communist opposition to private property.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·6 hours agowatching ads doesn’t transfer money to YouTube. not stealing.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·47 minutes agoWatching ads absolutely does transfer money to YouTube, how do you think Google exists?? It’s astonishing how naive (or obtuse) people can be.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·37 minutes agoadvertisers pay google. I don’t pay google by watching ads.
minus-squaretfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·19 hours agoI would agree back in like 2010 but YouTube ads got so cancerous over the years that I won’t give them money (Premium) out of principle until literally nothing works anymore. use PeerTube lmao
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down10·16 hours agoYou’re welcome then (since my fees subsidize your watching).
minus-squaretfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 hours agoI am grateful mylord
minus-squareJackhammer_Joe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down16·16 hours agoEat shit, dickhead
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 hours agoNah, I’d rather watch YouTube. Ad free, too.
Well, then don’t go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for:
Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don’t act like you are morally entitled to do it.
blocking ads is not stealing
Is using up resources without paying for it. It’s stealing by any definition.
who do you pay for all the oxygen you use up?
Oxygen is not produced by workers. Electricity, bandwidth, storage, security, software, video content are all produced by workers.
For a commie you are quite unaware of the means of production…
seems like you aren’t aware of communist opposition to private property.
watching ads doesn’t transfer money to YouTube. not stealing.
Watching ads absolutely does transfer money to YouTube, how do you think Google exists??
It’s astonishing how naive (or obtuse) people can be.
advertisers pay google. I don’t pay google by watching ads.
I would agree back in like 2010 but YouTube ads got so cancerous over the years that I won’t give them money (Premium) out of principle until literally nothing works anymore.
lmao
You’re welcome then (since my fees subsidize your watching).
I am grateful mylord
Rejoice!
Eat shit, dickhead
Am I on Reddit again?
Nah, I’d rather watch YouTube. Ad free, too.