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More tools to steal money out of the pockets of those who provide content.

• bo1024 9y ago
  ...in the same sense that bathroom breaks or channel-changing for TV ads are tools to "steal" money from the networks? Sorry, but nobody promised to watch the commercials. I don't think it's fair to imply some sort of moral contract that if I serve you videos with ads, you're obligated to pay attention to the ads as well as the content. You are free to do what you want, including pay someone else to cut the ads out for you or install a tool that does it for free. I have to accept these possibilities when I choose how to distribute my 'content' and so do the advertisers. (I realize that we're currently in an "equilibrium" where a lot of 'content' on the web is ad-supported so it's difficult for creators to distribute in any other way. That's unfortunate both for creators and users.)