i know this is extremely unlikely to happen, but imagine if both mozilla and google decides to remove adblock extensions in every way, if that happens, would you still pirate?
Some people might say about *arr aplications, but imo that wouldnt work, simply because without adblocks, the trackers would do something to stop it.
lol, what? Ad Blocking doesn’t protect you from being discovered committing piracy, VPN’s do
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?
For people who pirate because they can’t afford the increasingly more expensive games, how does the removal of adblocks change anything?
I think they’re talking about ads on download pages making it more difficult to click the correct download button when pirating
Using those sites is just asking for trouble
Agreed
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.
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.
And if, a browser will be forked that can still use the extension interface.
I believe Proton also has the ability to block ads via DNS.
That doesn’t work if the ad is served from the same server as the website
Blocking ads its not piracy.
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.
It’s quoting Linus Tech Tips. And he’s being mostly genuine about it.
I pirate cause the companies that produce what I want are greedy shit bags not because of ads.
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
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?
Ads have never stopped me. Reasonable pricing to access content stopped for me for several years tho. Fuck you, Zaslav.
i would just disable js
You can disable JS or use LibreJS to disable proprietary JS code.
I haven’t used a tracker with ads in over a decade.
@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
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…
I really hate ads, too. But I don’t think I would be turning to street crime because of them.
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.
But why would this happen because of ads?
I don’t see this direct link between adblockers and being able to pirate stuff.
Even if they do remove them from the official stores, you can always go straight to the source and sideload it.
