Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

• AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d argue this as well. I see it in a similar way. Linus is obviously not trying to sit on some high horse and condemn piracy, he’s just calling a spade a spade.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, he’s calling a spade a backhoe. Piracy is one of two things, depending on your definition:

    • sharing/accessing copyrighted material you don’t have the rights for (i.e. seeding or downloading a torrent)
    • circumventing technical restrictions on copyrighted content (e.g. DRM)

    Blocking ads does neither of those things, it merely blocks loading of content that you don’t want to see. It’s basically the modern version of a DVR, where you can choose to cut out portions of a video that you don’t want (e.g. the ads).

    These things are technically piracy:

    • using a YouTube downloader
    • sharing downloaded YouTube videos
    • posting a YouTube video that you don’t own
    • using substantial portions of a YouTube video you don’t own w/o authorization in your own video (i.e. beyond Fair Use)

    Blocking ads isn’t one of those things, neither is skipping over parts of a video you don’t want to see (i.e. the sponsor segment).

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• Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And yet he never said not to adblock

  In those tweets? Sure. But that’s not an argument I was making, so this is a strawman from you that doesn’t actually counter any of the evidence I have provided. Did Linus say ad-blocking was piracy? Yes. Did Linus say ad-blocking was theft? Yes.

  Whether you think this is moral hypocrisy is irrelevant to me. I was only calling out the previous commenter who straight up lied about Linus’s history and then attempted to frame the people who were right as uninformed and wrong.

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  • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The comment was replying to one about it being funny that Linus made a video about adblocking when he considers adblocking piracy. That would imply he is against adblocking in general, which your links does not show.

    Yes, he considers it piracy, but he is not against adblocking, which is why the original point of the parent comment doesn’t make sense.

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    • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Read that second paragraph from me again:

      Whether you think this is moral hypocrisy is irrelevant to me. I was only calling out the previous commenter who straight up lied about Linus’s history and then attempted to frame the people who were right as uninformed and wrong.

      If you want to have a debate about the parent comment, debate the person who made the parent comment. That’s not me and I do not care about the point you are trying to make here.

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      • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I did read it the first time, which is why I brought up the context of the first comment, which implied that Linus is against adblocking.

        The comment you claimed to be lying is talking about the actual context of why Linus compared adblocking with piracy, which is about content creators and payment of their content.

        I’m only calling you out for making a point that is not in the context of the actual thread, not against the proof of what you posted in the first place, so I’m not sure we’re even in disagreement here.

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