Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users

• zergtoshi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you know the old saying:
  if privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

  Just because prople might do stuff with things that isn’t intended or even illegal doesn’t mean you should be banning said things.
  Otherwise we’d be in a world where we have no kitchen knives, axes, wrenches, food, money, cars, planes, ships, bikes, hands, feet - you know what I mean?

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  • CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And guns.

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• oce@jlai.lu ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are many legitimate uses of VPN such as protecting your privacy from private interests and bypassing censorship. That’s collective punishment.

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• CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s scammy or criminal about doing a Google search?

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  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s probably part of their DDOS protection.

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• Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know what else spammers and criminals often do? Breathe. We need to make that more difficult.

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  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Straight to slippery slope fallacy. Cute.

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