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

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.

iHUNTcriminals, rok temu (edited rok temu)

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…

theKalash, rok temu

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

iHUNTcriminals, rok temu (edited rok temu)

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.

theKalash, rok temu

But why would this happen because of ads?

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

Vaggumon, rok temu

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

zbecker, rok temu (edited rok temu)

@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

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.

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?

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?

Skoobie, rok temu

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

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

callyral, rok temu

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)

supervent, rok temu

Mldonkey/amule/emule do not have any ad anyway

mateomaui, rok temu

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

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.