While consuming the content, you’re avoiding paying some content its price, because you protest how the content guards its commercial interests. Thus, ahoy!

  • one_old_coder@piefed.social
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    12 days ago

    i don’t recall ever seeing ads that ship malware

    It’s a very good business and it exists.

    that what people say of Denuvo.

    It’s good, because Denuvo and every DRM framework is malware too.

    (not sure what you meant by the jehovah’s witnesses part. are they actually starving?)

    Since when is starving a requirement to accept harassment from every company out there? On my own computer nonetheless. It’s basic protection. I don’t install viruses because you ask for it.

    • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      i’m not asking you to accept harassment, i’m not saying piracy is bad. i’m just saying that ad-blocking is one form of piracy, just like how people pirate to reject DRM. and it surprises me that so many people insist it’s not.

      i don’t understand why i would host a solicitor or how that is comparable to ads. when you see a solicitor you don’t pay them bread and jam, their company does. when you see an ad you don’t pay the website money, the ad company does.

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        12 days ago

        Ads is a form of psychological harassment for many reasons.

        when you see a solicitor you don’t pay them bread and jam, their company does

        Cult members are often not paid by their cults. You should give them your money then.

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          12 days ago

          so is DRM.

          money isn’t what cult members want when they volunteer to evangelize. that’s different from webmasters and ads.