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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 85 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Denying profit to corporations is theft, so using adblockers will be put on the same level as digital piracy. How dare you consume content without letting your eyeballs get force-fed ads.

[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

ME - "Not looking at the billboard when driving to work"

Police - "STOP! You violated a law!"

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago

after all that capital invested in marketing people better fucking buy. coca cola now spends more on marketing than on producing the products. they are literally spending hundreds of millions of dollars to advertise the best know brand in the world.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

To this day, I have never bought something because of an ad. I get the concept of letting people know your product exists, but I know Raid Shadow Legends exists already and I am not interested, so fuck off.

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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

Denying profit to corporations is theft

Absolutely right. In fact, it should be illegal to see a product for sale and not immediately buy it. How dare you see a helpless corporation in need of money, freezing in the streets, and not immediately empty your wallet in exchange for trinkets that they so lovingly engineered to break in a set amount of time? You monster!

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

For a sec. I thought were fr in the first sentence. Then i remembered wich platform we're on and why that probably is.

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[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 63 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I am next for not leaving a tip at the coffee shop.

[–] 567PrimeMover@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They'll have you tip your executioner, and the minimum amount the kiosk will allow is 22%

[–] LeftHandedWave@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

It will show 22%, but really be 35%.

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[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am next for not leaving a tip at the self-checkout.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago

I am next for not tipping my landlord.

[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

… giving a tip before you actually get anything.

[–] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You monster! Did you know that (something, something, something their empolyer is an asshole who doesn't pay them well but somehow you're the bad guy here)?

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Be right behind you for having an unregistered 3D printer

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He's probably a filthy gun-printer!

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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All of you using adblockers are pathetic. You'll willingly deprive companies of their revenue just because you can't be bothered to see a few ads? It's not like ads are harmful or anything!

...hang on I think porn just started playing on my computer I have to find where the popup is and close it... Right after I close this other popup that says I've won 69 trillion dollars, and this one for dick pills, and this one for free vbucks, and this online casino one, and that one saying I have 420 viruses on my PC, and this one from the local fringe religious group that says I'll go to hell if I poop, and this one that straight up looks like it's trying to download ransomware, and... Damn my battery just died from all the extra processing power those popups needed. Uh but adblock is still evil though, don't forget that.

[–] spaxxor@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Remember, according to the small Canadian man, adblock is theft

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Piracy, actually, but yes. That tweet was such a dumpster fire. All it accomplished was it showed how grossly misinformed Linus was about this topic. How ad blocking equals copyright infringement is beyond me.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

He's 100% Dependent of advertising on YouTube. So his statement is not only biased but completely in favor of his income.

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

But then again theft is not theft according to the same small Canadian man.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 19 points 2 years ago

It's only theft if he loses money.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago

And sexual harassment in the workplace is not actually sexual harassment either according to the same man.

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[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago

I've followed Linus off and on from the jump, but I'ma listen to actual security experts over him lol.

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For refusing to drink the mountain dew verification can

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

bUt BlOcKiNg AdS iS pIrAcY

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 22 points 2 years ago

You wouldn't download an ad, would you?

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago
[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

My ancestors are smiling at me, imperial!

[–] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

what about us who ~~pirate~~ share almost everything?

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You will be judged by your peers. So seed often, at least 2:1.

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[–] nfsu2@feddit.cl 13 points 2 years ago

Having friends that have no idea of adblockers, or scripblockers are makes me feel prehistoric

[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You've still got some miles left in you, don't give up! Unless they're green, then you're screwed.

[–] Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago
[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's an even worse crime to be running custom ROM on your phone or basically not just running whatever it came with with bootloader locked.

[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah but I don't think they'll go for since there are far less people using custom ROM than using an adblocker

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

They're already doing it. See custom ROMs and Google Wallet. A lot of banking apps refuse to work. Then there's random apps like McDonald's that refuse to work on custom ROMs or if the device is rooted.

Banking apps I kinda get even though I think it's ass, but McD's??

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[–] TQuid@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A little ways back in the line, for privately owning a general-purpose computing device

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

DONT FORGET TO WATCH THE LATEST EPISODE OF OW MY BALLS

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Well I mean if my choices are ads or death... Yeah go ahead and flip the switch, I'm done here.

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