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Bro, the simple fact that Linus failed to recognize that ads are most of the time forced on you, with no paid opt-out alternative, had me cursing at him.
It's not piracy if I can't pay to get the product unaltered. PERIOD.
I'm ok with the little "buy our merch" bits, but yeah the sponsor spots have always rubbed me the wrong way, especially as a YouTube premium subscriber
YouTube premium is supposed to be this, but it is apparently glitching enough that you get plenty of results for "YouTube premium still showing ads" web searches, and it does nothing against sponsor spots.
I would shut up if Google implemented a sponsor block feature for premium users, and fixed their ads showing to (too many) premium subscribers. Buy they don't. As it stands, paying for premium to opt-out from ads is as efficient as using DoNotTrack (which is effectively just added data for fingerprinting) to opt-out from tracking. It makes you part of the problem when you clearly intend to be part of the solution. 🤷♂️
Is watching this video considered piracy if there are no ads to skip over?
This comment is where LTT started going down for me.
Bro, the simple fact that Linus failed to recognize that ads are most of the time forced on you, with no paid opt-out alternative, had me cursing at him.
It's not piracy if I can't pay to get the product unaltered. PERIOD.
YouTube premium is exactly that though, isn't it? Not that I agree with either side, just trying to comprehend
there's midroll ads baked into every video
I'm ok with the little "buy our merch" bits, but yeah the sponsor spots have always rubbed me the wrong way, especially as a YouTube premium subscriber
YouTube premium is supposed to be this, but it is apparently glitching enough that you get plenty of results for "YouTube premium still showing ads" web searches, and it does nothing against sponsor spots.
I would shut up if Google implemented a sponsor block feature for premium users, and fixed their ads showing to (too many) premium subscribers. Buy they don't. As it stands, paying for premium to opt-out from ads is as efficient as using
DoNotTrack(which is effectively just added data for fingerprinting) to opt-out from tracking. It makes you part of the problem when you clearly intend to be part of the solution. 🤷♂️Huh. I've had Premium for years and never once had it show me ads anyway. Crazy that other people have.
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Evergreen joke lol. Always use adblock and sponsor block folks. Always.