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minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 days agoWell, then don’t go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for: creators making the thing you so desperately want to watch disk space to store it bandwidth to send it around the world compute to transcode it and process it real estate and security for the premises power for the datacenter ac to cool the servers wages of workers to maintain that whole infrastructure wages of devs for the app yes, profits for the company Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don’t act like you are morally entitled to do it.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·20 days agoblocking ads is not stealing
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 days agoIs using up resources without paying for it. It’s stealing by any definition.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 days agowatching ads doesn’t transfer money to YouTube. not stealing.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoWatching ads absolutely does transfer money to YouTube, how do you think Google exists?? It’s astonishing how naive (or obtuse) people can be.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoadvertisers pay google. I don’t pay google by watching ads.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoAdvertisers pay Google when your watch ads. Goole pays the creators (and utilities, and rent, and employees, and…). By not watching ads, all those people are not getting paid, hence you are stealing.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoadvertisers pay google when google tells them I watched an ad. not when I do it
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoEven if you were right (which you aren’t, ads don’t work like that) it would change the fact you’re stealing. Does lying to yourself makes you feel less guilty?
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 days agowho do you pay for all the oxygen you use up?
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoOxygen is not produced by workers. Electricity, bandwidth, storage, security, software, video content are all produced by workers. For a commie you are quite unaware of the means of production…
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoseems like you aren’t aware of communist opposition to private property.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoWages have nothing to do with property.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoThey don’t, you’re just trying to change the subject to distract from your subconscious telling you you’re wrong.
Well, then don’t go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for:
Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don’t act like you are morally entitled to do it.
blocking ads is not stealing
Is using up resources without paying for it. It’s stealing by any definition.
watching ads doesn’t transfer money to YouTube. not stealing.
Watching ads absolutely does transfer money to YouTube, how do you think Google exists??
It’s astonishing how naive (or obtuse) people can be.
advertisers pay google. I don’t pay google by watching ads.
Advertisers pay Google when your watch ads. Goole pays the creators (and utilities, and rent, and employees, and…). By not watching ads, all those people are not getting paid, hence you are stealing.
advertisers pay google when google tells them I watched an ad. not when I do it
Even if you were right (which you aren’t, ads don’t work like that) it would change the fact you’re stealing.
Does lying to yourself makes you feel less guilty?
who do you pay for all the oxygen you use up?
Oxygen is not produced by workers. Electricity, bandwidth, storage, security, software, video content are all produced by workers.
For a commie you are quite unaware of the means of production…
seems like you aren’t aware of communist opposition to private property.
Wages have nothing to do with property.
they absolutely do
They don’t, you’re just trying to change the subject to distract from your subconscious telling you you’re wrong.