piracy

Yglorba, 2 lata temu w So, Unity is charging game developers per video game install now...

The most hilarious thing about this is that, assuming crackers prevent Unity games from phoning home, the best way to support game developers would be to buy their game and then only play the cracked version, never installing the version you purchased.

k_rol, 2 lata temu w Is torrentgalaxy blocking users with adblock?

They do have to pay for their website somehow. One could argue you are not honoring other pirates.

mateomaui, 2 lata temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

yes, if pirating were more of a pain in the ass because of ads, I would still do it.

supervent, 2 lata temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

Mldonkey/amule/emule do not have any ad anyway

can, 2 lata temu w A way to disable laugh tracks?

No doubt AI will be able to remove it soon if not already.

Now the practicality of that is another matter.

bullbrand, 2 lata temu w What is your go to music grabbing solution?

Nicotine+ to grab what I want, EasyTAG to edit metadata, move the files to my self hosted instance of Ampache which I can then access either with SublimeMusic on desktop or SubStreamer on my phone if I’m traveling.

callyral, 2 lata temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

Not much of a pirate, but I do like blocking ads. In that situation, here are some browsers I believe would still have ad blocking capabilities.

Firefox-based browsers:

• Librewolf (privacy-focused; comes with uBlock Origin)
• Tor (don't know much about it, but it probably would have ad blocking still)

Chromium-based:

• Vivaldi (it appears they have built-in ad blocking; closed source though)
• Bromite (mobile; not sure if still continued)

5ubieee, 2 lata temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

the only case i could see it stopping someone is if they just pirate for funsies and have the disposable income to buy anything they want lmao. if you need something and cant afford it then inconveniences and annoyances don’t matter

ruckblack, 2 lata temu w A way to disable laugh tracks?

Have you considered how awkward King of Queens would be without the laugh track? With the actors pausing for laughter every 45 seconds?

ColeSloth, 2 lata temu

You don’t even have to imagine it. Do a youtube search for clips with laugh tracks removed. They exist and it really makes watching it weird.

reverendsteveii, 2 lata temu

I’ve never done king of queens but friends and big bang theory without the laugh tracks are almost David Lynch levels of unsettling

Skoobie, 2 lata temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

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

juliebean, 2 lata temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

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?

Jerbil, 2 lata temu w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

I don’t see how these two things correlate. Private trackers don’t have ads on them and many public ones that require an account don’t either. Are you still downloading things through a browser with jdownloader?

Dsklnsadog, 2 lata temu w What torrents should I seed for yarrr

Top 100 imdb in 4K :p

ayaya, 2 lata temu

That is the exact opposite of what needs more seeders.

Kissaki, 2 lata temu w [Request] Remove ads from Duolingo?

Using a DNS that blocks ad domains works for blocking third party apps. The duolingo video ad still shows up though.

DNS is a OS setting.

Closing an reopening the app works too as a workaround. Progress is saved on completion, before the ad.

exododo, 2 lata temu w A way to disable laugh tracks?

But how would you know when something is funny then? (canned laughter)

Draconic_NEO, 2 lata temu

You just have to use your judgement and laugh at what you find funny on your own, if you need peer pressure (opinions of others) to find something funny then it’s not really funny to you and maybe isn’t even funny for many people to begin with.

This might be controversial but maybe many Sitcoms that do this were never funny in the first place and used laugh tracks because try as they might they had to force people to find it funny via artificial peer pressure, that either constitutes of a crowd being told to laugh on cue, or a recording of them doing so, which is what a laugh track is.

Here’s the key point and why we stopped using them, things aren’t funny, people think certain things are funny, and they also think plenty of things are not funny, and like it or not people are not always going to find the same things funny.

jameskirk, 2 lata temu

It was a joke, man.

superkret, 2 lata temu

I think the response may have been one too, at your expense.

LazerFX, 2 lata temu

I always thought it was because the earliest stuff was actually filmed infront of a live audience (Like a theatre) who did laugh, so when switching to non-live-audience stuff, the viewing public would be ‘put off’ by no laughter, so they injected it with canned laughter… then as time went on they realised this was rubbish and stopped it.

But maybe I’m just missing the joke in the previous two comments, I dunno.

Draconic_NEO, 2 lata temu

In the earlier days it was like that but as time went on it became a technique known as sweetening to make the joke seem funnier, sometimes they would even use it to fill in silence or dead air since that was frowned upon (I wonder why people said TV rots your brain for the longest time… can’t be related to any of these practices could it?).

The beginning part is essentially saying that if people need laugh-tracks to find things funny they are dry and humor-less, a joke at their expense but also at the same time it’s 100% sincere, a person who can’t find things funny without others lacks a sense of humor.