YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps - eviltoast
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    8 months ago

    I don’t see how that’s relevant. If you want to engage in the paid YouTube subscription, go for it, it’s an entirely different thing though.

    My computer requests from YouTube’s server a video, the server gives me a stream of data - I didn’t steal it, I didn’t hack it, the server provided me this because it wanted to - and this stream contains an ad and a video. What I do with this stream is only my concern, you can’t force me to watch the ad. That would be like walking in the street and somebody says you’re unethical because you didn’t look at an outdoor advertisement banner, and that you will be forced to either pay a fee or look at the ad.

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        8 months ago

        I have no social contract with YouTube. The whole “if you access this site, you agree with this ToS” isn’t even legally valid here.