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Those are just people who expect things for free. Free loaders will always exist and they will always try to come up with justifications for why their free load
by sanswork 1y ago
Those are just people who expect things for free. Free loaders will always exist and they will always try to come up with justifications for why their free loading is actually noble and not just selfish.
- ndriscoll 1y agoIf the "price" to load a webpage were that you run a crypto miner or give a site access to upload whatever files it feels from your computer, would you do it? Or would blocking such malware make you a free loader?
- sanswork 1y agoI wouldn't use the site but yes using the site and not doing that would make you a free loader.
- ndriscoll 1y agoSo I presume you browse with a vulnerable webp library or something in case sites you do browse would like to use that functionality? You can't know whether they wanted to use it if your browser silently blocks their attempts.
- sanswork 1y agoYes, that sounds exactly like what I'm suggesting and not a bad faith argument at all.
- ndriscoll 1y agoCorrect. Web adware/spyware is drive-by malware and a frequent funnel for scammers. Malware blockers are simply prudent. Intentionally allowing their programs to run would be insane. A normal person doesn't stop to consider whether blocking malware is somehow freeloading.
- sanswork 1y agoYou will justify wanting things for nothing no matter what. Luckily for the rest of us, people like you are the minority so there are still enough resources for us to get the content we enjoy. But keep telling yourself that your not supporting the creators you enjoy is some moral victory.
- ndriscoll 1y agoThere's where you are confused; I generally do not want things from "the creators" (e.g. I simply don't understand the audience for something like LTT. Non-technical people LARPing as nerds?), and don't see "creator" as a separate class of person. To the extent that youtube has anything interesting on it, it tends to be random 1 minute recordings from some dude that just fixed something, or recordings of e.g. lectures that were being given anyway, and they felt like posting it somewhere free. These aren't people asking for support. They're unlikely to get more than a few hundred views. See also [0]. There's already an infinite wealth of top quality works out there, already for free. It'd already take a lifetime to scratch the surface of the best ones. The "creators" you speak of are irrelevant. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946863
- estimator7292 1y agoSome people just really like to believe and repeat anything a corporation tells them. It's so much easier than forming your own unique thoughts. Buy coke!
- inferiorhuman 1y agoFree loaders? You're talking about Google's reCAPTCHA using my browser to train its AI, right?
- sanswork 1y agoThey are providing a service to the people protecting their services with recaptcha and you're solving those issues because you value what's on the other side so no I wouldn't consider that free loading.
- inferiorhuman 1y agoA service that's easily defeated by automation and thus mostly devoid of value outside of training Google's AI products. I think the technical term is "false sense of security".
- sanswork 1y agoI use it on a number of my forms and it works fantastically on almost all cases since most bad actors are lazy.
- inferiorhuman 1y agoSorry, I should've just left it at trivially defeated. My preferred method is to just use a different browser and/or clear my cookies. Meanwhile I spent around 30 seconds on DDG and came up with 5 chrome store captcha solvers, 2 github projects, and 1 paid captcha solving service. False. Sense. Of. Security.
- sanswork 1y agoPerfect is the enemy of good. See we can all do that. I don't need a captcha to be perfect, I need to it be good enough.
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