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While consuming the content, you're avoiding paying some content its price, because you protest how the content guards its commercial interests. Thus, ahoy!

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[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

Unfortunately, many mobile games have figured out how to get around ad blockers now.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world -3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Sorry, this isn’t an unpopular opinion.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Actually this is an unpopular opinion or your circle is so different from the average that you are almost aliens, I have yet to meet someone that would sincerely say that they think that not watching ads is breaking social contract.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

OP stated that it’s ok to block ads even though it’s piracy. That’s not an unpopular opinion.

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[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

i'd say the other comments disagree

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world -3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Everyone is agreeing with the OP that blocking ads is ok. That makes the post “popular”.

This isn’t /c/popularopinion.

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Hmm... People in your comments either conflate ads with telemetry (you can have tracker free ads) or they don't understand that there is value in ads equal to at least a fraction of sold content. Maybe they're triggered by the term piracy, which admittedly is a strong term, but honestly your core argument is correct.

I'm pro-piracy, though, and certainly take pride in picking and choosing who or what I put value in. It's more obvious with paying a patreon or buying a product you already pirated, but allowing ads to play (or at least giving a video view though to trigger the counter, liking and subscribing, etc) is also a form of support. And yes, you can do so without completely violating privacy although they're certainly making that harder lately...

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

to be fair, the most popular ad platforms like google ads use trackers, so it is something to consider. but i do agree that this kind of lumping is bad since this thinking hurts ethical ad platforms too.

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