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"rational" as in, rationalizing the contradiction of "not paying" and "getting content anyway". just don't watch. don't support the practice entirely. it's not
by pxoe 2y ago
"rational" as in, rationalizing the contradiction of "not paying" and "getting content anyway". just don't watch. don't support the practice entirely. it's not really as much of a stance as it is just a contrived way to excuse away getting the thing you simultaneously hate and crave. like, the content has already manipulated you even without you paying for it and refusing to pay for it, by making you do this little dance, of trying to get it and trying to rationalize getting it.
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- cxr 2y ago> a contrived way to excuse away getting the thing you simultaneously hate and crave > just don't watch Is your position a value judgement on the morality of not watching ads + technology that enables you to watch as few as possible? Or on the societal fixation to consume junk? If the former, please elaborate on your position as it relates to VCRs and DVRs of the sort that are built-in to DirecTV receivers.
- pxoe 2y agoi just find the tension and contradictions of piracy kinda fascinating. "i hate this so much but i have to get it cause i apparently need it so badly". something being deserving to be obtained, yet not deserving to be paid for. and most of all, somebody feeling so entitled to it that they just can't actually refuse it completely.
- cxr 2y agoYou didn't answer the question, and overall you're being very mercurial in this thread. Write coherently. > i just find the tension and contradictions of piracy kinda fascinating You're calling watching a TV show without watching the commercials "piracy"? That's a very broad definition of "piracy" that I'd venture has almost no support outside of your comments here.
- speff 2y agoI'd call it piracy in a way. Ads are how that specific piece of content is made available - whether it be for paying file hosting costs, creator living expenses, video production, etc. Consuming media without providing compensation for it (through ad views in this case) would meet my definition of new-age piracy.
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- wahnfrieden 2y agoYou want adblock developers to be caged by the state, like piracy site providers?
- speff 2y agoNo
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- pxoe 2y agoIf anything, i'd say that your interpretations and subsequent tangents are incoherent. It's really very simple. Get better at understanding.
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- cxr 2y agoI implore you to (a) point to a single tangent that is not a direct response to your remarks and (b) explain how your decision to rant, apropos of nothing, against this video player app's creators is anything other than a bizarre non-sequitur
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