i know this is extremely unlikely to happen, but imagine if both mozilla and google decides to remove adblock extensions in every way, if that happens, would you still pirate?

Some people might say about *arr aplications, but imo that wouldnt work, simply because without adblocks, the trackers would do something to stop it.

  • downpunxx
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    lol, what? Ad Blocking doesn’t protect you from being discovered committing piracy, VPN’s do

  • @[email protected]
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    341 year ago

    i have no idea what connection you think there is between piracy and adblockers. if anything, wouldn’t killing all adblockers encourage more piracy, not less?

  • The Hobbyist
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    161 year ago

    For people who pirate because they can’t afford the increasingly more expensive games, how does the removal of adblocks change anything?

    • Kalash
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      I think it’s a qoute from some sitcome, I don’t remember where I heard it. But it’s “Not watching the ads is like stealing TV!”. And it’s about just changing the channel during an ad break. It’s clearly a joke, too. But maybe some people actually believe that.

  • Kalash
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    131 year ago

    There will always be adblock in some form, it can’t be removed.

    But even if it somehow happened, I don’t see how that would affect my pirating. Sure, some torrent sites might be a bit harder to navigate, but that’s just an inconvenience.

    • Dalë
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      71 year ago

      They can remove adblocks all they want.

      Private DNS will still exist, there’s at least two that have noads DNS, Mullvad and LibreDNS.

      They work in most browser’s/devices etc.

  • Vaggumon
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    81 year ago

    I pirate cause the companies that produce what I want are greedy shit bags not because of ads.

  • Skoobie
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    41 year ago

    Ads have never stopped me. Reasonable pricing to access content stopped for me for several years tho. Fuck you, Zaslav.

  • pre
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    @XeryBlox The first thing I would pirate would be a hacked version of Firefox that had ad-blockers in it.

    If I can’t get that then I’d think about abandoning the web for Gemini.

    • Saganastic
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      You don’t even need a hacked version. Just use an older version. Besides, Firefox is open source, I’m sure someone would fork off an adblock allowed version.

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    It would just bring back street crime and physical boosting and robbery. Same thing for blocking porn… all the creepy 70/80/90s shit would come back…

    • Kalash
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      21 year ago

      I really hate ads, too. But I don’t think I would be turning to street crime because of them.

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        Idk I guess I mean like boosted vendors. In 90s and early 00 I used to go to expos or even certain street vendors and they would have boosted or ripped movies and software.

        And in terms of porn I mean sex spots scattered around cities and towns.

        • Kalash
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          21 year ago

          But why would this happen because of ads?

          I don’t see this direct link between adblockers and being able to pirate stuff.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        “OH they put ads everywhere and won’t let me hide them? Looks like it’s time for me to become a domestic terrorist”

  • zbecker
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    @XeryBlox most people who pirate a lot have automated setups that auto download every. The software stack that’s commonly used is *Arr.

    Sonarr for TV, Radarr for movies and lidarr for music.

    There are also no ads when you go to the trackers directly via the API. Same for usenet indexers

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Even if they do remove them from the official stores, you can always go straight to the source and sideload it.