No, you don’t have a right to it. If they want to they can put the entire site being a subscriber paywall. That’s their call. But until they do that i will continue to access the site with my adblocked browser.
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FMT99@lemmy.world 9 months agoThey’re not saying you can’t have an adblocker. They’re saying their software will try not to serve you their data if you do, or at least make it inconvenient.
You have a right to your computer. You do not have a right to their service.
vitamin@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Synthead@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You do have a right to your computer. After content is delivered to you, you have downloaded data, and your own hardware and software acts to consume said downloaded data. After it is downloaded, even if it is in a browser in a cache, it is considered offline content. This also applies to streaming media chunks, too: once it’s downloaded, you have acquired it locally.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
They don’t have the right to disregard my right to privacy either, yet here we are.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well… They do because it’s their tos, no?
ferralcat@monyet.cc 9 months ago
But their software is just blocking based on browser. Their message to you is not “don’t use an ad blocker”. It’s “use chrome and you won’t have this problem”. Theyre literally just hoping to abuse their position as a monopoly in video to try and strengthen their monopoly on browsers.
Perhyte@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is that why I haven’t had any problems? I thought it was either Google A/B testing again or uBlock updating often enough to keep up, but I do have a user-agent changer installed in Firefox that’s configured to tell YouTube I’m on Chrome…
Synthead@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s exactly what I said, yeah
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Me after reading the 1st comment: “OK. True. Fair.” Me after reading the 2nd comment: “OK. True. Fair.” Me after reading the 3rd comment: “OK. Also true. Also fair.”
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Me reading you:
Fourth gosh darn level of agree
I’ll never disable my PiHole or turn off ublock tho
theherk@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fair.
Archer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I wish PiHole wasn’t so absolute dogshit about DNS requests from outside the local subnet, might use it then
Klear@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
There was a rabbi arbitrating a dispute between neighbours. One of them complained that the other one gathers apples that fall off his apple tree and into the other neighbour’s garden. “Those are my apples grown on my tree. He’s stealing them!”
“You’re right,” says the rabbi. But the other neighbour counters.
“But the branches of the tree are above my property. If he doesn’t want them to fall on my garden, he can cut off the branch. But he lets them fall into my garden making them my apples.”
“You’re right,” says the rabbi and adjourns the diapute to be able to think about it. He’s at his wit’s end and tells the whole story to his wife when he gets home.
“That doesn’t make sense. They can’t both be right.”
“You’re right.”