Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads

• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  when he said that software should be free as in freedom, because that would solve this problem

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you.

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  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While I don’t disagree with Stallman, how would that solve this problem? This is about a major video hosting platform having market shares and injecting ads into their streams / UI. I do not see - even if every line of youtube’s software sources were public - how that would solve the issue that the hosting platform can insert ads anywhere - honestly, as much as I hate ads, I can’t even blame youtube for doing something morally questionable - they are providing a service, they are not a public institution obligated to making information accessible.

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    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      that’s right: into their UI; with free software, you could use a different UI with no ads

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      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        which is basically what we do using ublock origin - and then they inject ads directly into the video stream, and a custom UI wouldn’t help.

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• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m guessing not when he justified pedophilia and zoophilia.

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