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To: ducttape45

It costs money to be YouTube and host millions up on millions of videos Pay for YouTube premium to avoid ads. Don’t want to pay? Then watch the ads. Ad blockers are theft.


14 posted on 10/15/2023 1:29:52 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Stravinsky

“Ad blockers are theft.”

Lol. I consider it shoplifting.


27 posted on 10/15/2023 1:49:32 PM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: Stravinsky
re: ad blockers are theft.

Brainwashing ads cause so much anxiety people are having to get a prescription for adblock from their doctors.

AdBlock and support content creators by buying their merch.

29 posted on 10/15/2023 1:50:11 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Divorce the Deep State Peacefully: Become a State National - tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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To: Stravinsky

“Ad blockers are theft.”

Ads are theft.
Ads steal my bandwidth that I pay for.
Ads steal my screen space when I didn’t ask for them.
Ads spy on us, stealing our personal information everywhere we go on the Internet.
Ads steal my processor, memory, and storage space.
Ads are theft, which is why people instinctively hate them.


37 posted on 10/15/2023 1:55:21 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Stravinsky

Cable TV was pay for no commercials-

Similar, to YT it will eventually be pay for ads as well-

besides GOOG’s entire business built on theft of our data and colluding with big tech.

Appeal to law and order is not convincing to me.


50 posted on 10/15/2023 2:21:18 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Stravinsky

“Then watch the ads.”

You want me to watch ads, then pay me to watch them.


62 posted on 10/15/2023 2:57:59 PM PDT by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: Stravinsky

Watching YouTube for ten (10) minutes ) and the ad blocker blocked 100 ads , ONE HUNDRED !


69 posted on 10/15/2023 3:17:45 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Stravinsky

On some conservative but mainly Christian channels, YouTube puts in ads but the creater gets none of the money because their videos are “controversial”


73 posted on 10/15/2023 3:53:57 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: Stravinsky

“Ad blockers are theft.”

I have no virtue—I guess I can add “thief and proud of it” to my resume of dishonor.

;-)


116 posted on 10/16/2023 12:37:14 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: Stravinsky

“Don’t want to pay? Then watch the ads. Ad blockers are theft.”

Don’t track me across multiple media properties then. Online Ads are malicious invasions of privacy. Ad-tech spends millions on neuroscientists to develop techniques to try and get past your limited natural defenses. All to persuade you to do something you would not otherwise do.


130 posted on 10/20/2023 10:10:20 AM PDT by 13foxtrot
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