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minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·20 hours agoblocking ads is not stealing
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·20 hours agoIs using up resources without paying for it. It’s stealing by any definition.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·19 hours agowho do you pay for all the oxygen you use up?
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoOxygen is not produced by workers. Electricity, bandwidth, storage, security, software, video content are all produced by workers. For a commie you are quite unaware of the means of production…
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoseems like you aren’t aware of communist opposition to private property.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoWages have nothing to do with property.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·20 hours agowatching ads doesn’t transfer money to YouTube. not stealing.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·15 hours agoWatching ads absolutely does transfer money to YouTube, how do you think Google exists?? It’s astonishing how naive (or obtuse) people can be.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·15 hours agoadvertisers pay google. I don’t pay google by watching ads.
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·14 hours agoAdvertisers pay Google when your watch ads. Goole pays the creators (and utilities, and rent, and employees, and…). By not watching ads, all those people are not getting paid, hence you are stealing.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 hours agoadvertisers pay google when google tells them I watched an ad. not when I do it
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoEven if you were right (which you aren’t, ads don’t work like that) it would change the fact you’re stealing. Does lying to yourself makes you feel less guilty?
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoI’m not lying at all, and I won’t be made to feel guilty for avoiding ads
blocking ads is not stealing
Is using up resources without paying for it. It’s stealing by any definition.
who do you pay for all the oxygen you use up?
Oxygen is not produced by workers. Electricity, bandwidth, storage, security, software, video content are all produced by workers.
For a commie you are quite unaware of the means of production…
seems like you aren’t aware of communist opposition to private property.
Wages have nothing to do with property.
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watching ads doesn’t transfer money to YouTube. not stealing.
Watching ads absolutely does transfer money to YouTube, how do you think Google exists??
It’s astonishing how naive (or obtuse) people can be.
advertisers pay google. I don’t pay google by watching ads.
Advertisers pay Google when your watch ads. Goole pays the creators (and utilities, and rent, and employees, and…). By not watching ads, all those people are not getting paid, hence you are stealing.
advertisers pay google when google tells them I watched an ad. not when I do it
Even if you were right (which you aren’t, ads don’t work like that) it would change the fact you’re stealing.
Does lying to yourself makes you feel less guilty?
I’m not lying at all, and I won’t be made to feel guilty for avoiding ads