If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate? angielski

downpunxx, rok temu

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

juliebean, rok temu

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?

TheHobbyist, rok temu

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

sovietknuckles, rok temu

I think they’re talking about ads on download pages making it more difficult to click the correct download button when pirating

Pulp, rok temu

Using those sites is just asking for trouble

sovietknuckles, rok temu

Agreed

theKalash, rok temu

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.

hellequin67, rok temu

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.

matey, rok temu

I believe Proton also has the ability to block ads via DNS.

Onionizer, rok temu

That doesn’t work if the ad is served from the same server as the website

Appoxo, rok temu

And if, a browser will be forked that can still use the extension interface.

Apollo2323, rok temu

Blocking ads its not piracy.

theKalash, rok temu (edited rok temu)

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.

wolfshadowheart, rok temu

It's quoting Linus Tech Tips. And he's being mostly genuine about it.

Vaggumon, rok temu

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

5ubieee, rok temu

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

Jerbil, rok temu

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?

theshatterstone54, rok temu

You can disable JS or use LibreJS to disable proprietary JS code.

nicman24, rok temu

i would just disable js

pre, rok temu

@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, rok temu

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.

Skoobie, rok temu

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

WeirdGoesPro, rok temu

I haven’t used a tracker with ads in over a decade.

Kolanaki, rok temu (edited rok temu)

I mean, there are still private, adfree trackers and things and I’ve been pirating before even Napster was a thing and the Internet was rife with malicious ads and popups. If anything, I’d pirate harder out of spite.

ruination, rok temu

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