> YouTube requires you watch ads to use their website, so not doing that is piracy. Piracy is another word for copyright infringement. Blocking ads on YouTube

> YouTube requires you watch ads to use their website, so not doing that is piracy. Piracy is another word for copyright infringement. Blocking ads on YouTube is not piracy because you are not violating copyright law (in any country that I'm aware of) by viewing only a portion of the content that is delivered to you. DVRs do the same thing as ad blockers for TVs, but in the U.S., the courts have ruled that DVR services do not infringe the copyrights of media companies.[1] YouTube and other Google services don't forbid ad blocking in their terms of service.[2] If they did, there would be an uproar because Google itself includes an ad blocker in Chrome, which of course does not block any YouTube or Google ads.[3] [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/business-us-cablevision-court-dvr-idCNTRE55S38520090629 https://www.reuters.com/article/business-us-cablevision-cour... [2] https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms [3] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7632919 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7632919