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bandwidth and hosting have associated costs. unlike piracy, which is just creating copies, this is using Google’s electricity to provide you a service without g
by dmonitor 3y ago
bandwidth and hosting have associated costs. unlike piracy, which is just creating copies, this is using Google’s electricity to provide you a service without giving anything in return.
- angoragoats 3y agoGoogle is always free to stop serving me anything at all if they choose to. However, once they serve me something and it’s received by my user agent, I will use that user agent however I see fit to parse and display (or not display) that content.
- dmonitor 3y agowell, that's what's happening now and everyone is whining about it
- angoragoats 3y agoWhat? What is happening now? I’ll rephrase my position: Google is free to ban my IP, require a payment before serving me videos, or whatever else they feel is appropriate to stop me from using their electricity without being compensated appropriately. But if they serve me a page containing a video, I have every right to instruct the software on my device to render that video however I see fit. This in no way is morally or legally comparable to stealing, theft, fraud, or whatever other words people are throwing around.
- hooverd 3y agois it stealing if you mute or don't watch the ads without blocking them per se?
- manafort 3y agoIt costs them even more to also serve me an ad that I will resent and refuse to click on / follow the CTA.