• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Huh, really? I just tried on a fresh browser (Safari on macOS) and didn’t get any kind of popup. I never use Safari, so it’s safe to say I’ve never accessed YT on it. I have no extensions, I was just presented with a page that says “search to get started” or something, then when I load a video, I get ads. No TOS popup at all.

    So me adding an ad-blocker in this scenario wouldn’t be an issue because I was never asked to accept any terms of service. At least that’s my understanding. And it certainly wouldn’t be piracy because I’m doing nothing to access something I shouldn’t, YouTube is just giving me access because I asked nicely.

    • Redex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      For me this is fighting over semantics. It doesn’t really matter if it’s legally piracy or not since nobody is gonna go after you for it either way. It’s about whether what you’re doing is moral or the intended way. You can use adblocker, but then you’re just freeloading. Fact of the matter is that nothing is free and everything needs compensation when at scale. You can rightfully claim that YouTube shoves too many ads and that it’s a monopoly so it abuses it’s position, but at the end of the day you’re using the service without compensating for it, so you’re stealing at least something.