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> this also prevents content injection by the malicious code that google sends to your browser to render content from third party advertisers on your device wit

by yunohn 4y ago

> this also prevents content injection by the malicious code that google sends to your browser to render content from third party advertisers on your device without your consent You’re kidding right? Deliberately watching videos on a freely provided service supported by ads, makes the ad script “malicious and non-consensual”?

TechBro8615 4y ago
I meant it facetiously, but I’m definitely not kidding. It’s my device, so I can choose what code executes on it. If I choose to block code from executing, that must mean I did not consent to its execution, because otherwise why would I need to block it? I owe no debt to Google, especially since YouTube is often a non-consensual venue, in the sense that content I want to watch, which Google did not create, is only available on Google’s website. I was not an active participant in the economic conditions that led to Google’s monopolization of the video hosting market. So if I am only watching a video on YouTube because it’s only hosted on YouTube, but I would have watched it if it were hosted elsewhere, then I am only passively responsible for the choice of watching it on YouTube. I do not owe anything to Google in this case, because it implies I benefit from the existence of YouTube, but any benefit I derive is actually from the content, not the host of it. The suggestion that I benefit from Google’s monopoly on video hosting presupposes the idea that free-to-watch video hosts cannot exist without serving advertisements. I don’t believe that, and I always choose alternative hosts over YouTube in the rare case where a video is hosted on both, or banned from YouTube. I don’t use SponsorBlock, although I do manually scrub past promotional content.
- yunohn 4y ago
  I cannot help you with your contempt for other’s choices and your general cognitive dissonance. However do consider: - Creators use YT for ease of hosting, earnings for their effort, widespread dissemination - Users choose YT for ease of watching, content discovery, non-bloated UI/UX Google uses Ads to cover significant hosting and bandwidth costs, as well as to build quality features to help both creators and users alike. If this logic doesn’t make sense to you, so be it. But your tirade is both entitled and ignorant.
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by yunohn 4y ago

TechBro8615 4y ago

I meant it facetiously, but I’m definitely not kidding. It’s my device, so I can choose what code executes on it. If I choose to block code from executing, that must mean I did not consent to its execution, because otherwise why would I need to block it? I owe no debt to Google, especially since YouTube is often a non-consensual venue, in the sense that content I want to watch, which Google did not create, is only available on Google’s website. I was not an active participant in the economic conditions that led to Google’s monopolization of the video hosting market. So if I am only watching a video on YouTube because it’s only hosted on YouTube, but I would have watched it if it were hosted elsewhere, then I am only passively responsible for the choice of watching it on YouTube. I do not owe anything to Google in this case, because it implies I benefit from the existence of YouTube, but any benefit I derive is actually from the content, not the host of it. The suggestion that I benefit from Google’s monopoly on video hosting presupposes the idea that free-to-watch video hosts cannot exist without serving advertisements. I don’t believe that, and I always choose alternative hosts over YouTube in the rare case where a video is hosted on both, or banned from YouTube. I don’t use SponsorBlock, although I do manually scrub past promotional content.

yunohn 4y ago
I cannot help you with your contempt for other’s choices and your general cognitive dissonance. However do consider: - Creators use YT for ease of hosting, earnings for their effort, widespread dissemination - Users choose YT for ease of watching, content discovery, non-bloated UI/UX Google uses Ads to cover significant hosting and bandwidth costs, as well as to build quality features to help both creators and users alike. If this logic doesn’t make sense to you, so be it. But your tirade is both entitled and ignorant.
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