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The same reason we all use(d) The Pirate Bay. Information deserves to be free, remember? We can distribute videos for free, you remember that, right? We can als
by giordano-bruno 5y ago
The same reason we all use(d) The Pirate Bay. Information deserves to be free, remember? We can distribute videos for free, you remember that, right? We can also pay content creators, who get ripped off by YouTube anyway. Ask them about that.
Are you suggesting that HackerNews readers should also remove their adblockers? That we are bound by a Kantian moral obligation to be subjected to enticement and manipulation for Google’s balance sheet? Will we get kicked out of Capitalism if we don’t acquiesce and watch the ads?
I guess I’m an amoral Bad Boy. Antinomian. A rebel, with strange views on religion, morality, information, and economics - heretical, unspeakable views, that I shall not utter here.
PS: I’m concerned about exposing my mind to advertisements. The risk to the computer, which is but a tool of the mind, is entirely secondary.
- rryan 5y agoStraw man argument. OP was suggesting you pay for YT premium, which does away with the ads completely. Removing your web adblocker is a non sequitur, and exposes your computer to malware / spyware in addition to ads.
- KoftaBob 5y ago> We can distribute videos for free, you remember that, right? Outside of a purely P2P system like Peertube, how would you distribute videos for free? Are there not server costs?
- ohyeshedid 5y ago> (Personally, I don’t watch videos, and prefer to simply read books from the library, which somehow exists without the “support” of advertisers...) Depending on what kind of library you're referencing: those books were purchased, and sometimes/often at more than consumer retail.
- mda 5y ago"I am an amoral antinomian rebel bad boy". People on HN never ceases to amaze.