Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

Scroll passed Bing's sponsored bullshit

Ah. Still some ads then.

There's a chance duckduckgo does something similar, but sadly I can't check at the moment.

Leaving a comment so I remember to try it later—unless anyone reading is willing to do so.

Why is this lengthy process preferable to using ublock on Firefox?

Isn't he the same person who calls adblocking piracy?

He's also got a generally nuanced opinion of piracy, in that it's justifiable in some situations. If you call it piracy and you're okay with piracy then it's not really a contradiction.

Being willing to talk about it despite working against your interests isn't always bad depending on context.

Isn't that essentially what it is? Getting something for free through certain means you wouldn't get for free otherwise? Which means no money goes to whoever owns the service you're using?

LTT always seemed "slimy" to me, especially after the whole mistreatment allegations ordeal

He's right that it's piracy, he doesn't go on to say piracy is wrong, and neither would I.

It's piracy to block ads, and piracy isn't always wrong, so who cares?

Calling it piracy doesn't mean you think it's the worst thing in the world. I do it unless I like a service, and c'mon, it is piracy.

Isn’t he the same person who calls adblocking piracy?

Yes. Because it is, and I do it gladly.

Yeah, on the WAN Show.

Also I found this, https://archive.ph/VavFc.

Youtubers have no morals? What kind of idiotic generalisation is that?

BTW, adblocking is a form piracy, that I'm completely fine with.

No, that's called nuance and honesty.

But it is? Don't lie to yourself. We all do it but it's still piracy, and it's okay.

Well it is compareable to piracy just like piracy is effectively stealing. I still partake in both but unlike much of my peers, I'm not lying to myself about what I'm doing.

Add blocking is piracy, but piracy is okay.

He's already way past caring about anything other than money. He just gets the script and lends his known face for the video... regardless of anything else.

Can't entirely blame the guy though, cuz when he gets going you quickly see what an asshat he actually is, but he did have passion for the content a few years ago.

I just wish LTT would fade into irrelevancy already, it's just shallow clickbaity content that hardly provides any value. I'm also just waiting for their next workplace abuse accusations... the place is known to be abusive for years.

This is what I'm referring to https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjJUVsmjIj4

It has been definitely downplayed and sugarcoated for public audience, but the shitty workplace smells a mile away...

Massive cunt is actually a massive cunt irl.

Yeah, I got tired of his videos half-assing the work and the failed reviews hurting small manufacturers while Linus doubled down after GN documented their failures.

But this I can get behind.

Which one?

I stopped because they are bro douchebags.

I’ll be that guy. I don’t understand why LTT gets so much crap from people constantly, they seem to have a very toxic community even without the scandals. But in regards to the more recent scandal, I really think a lot of those things are fixable and I’ll be watching to see if they fix them.

As far as the sexual harassment stuff goes I can see that as a legitimate reason to stop watching. At the same time though, how should we feel with such limited and one sided information? And especially how should I feel if the problems aren’t inherent to the company and if they don’t reoccur?

Maybe someone can help clear this up for me because I’m not that informed and I’m still giving them a chance but maybe I shouldn’t be.

Same.

Thanks for sharing? Why is every Lemmy single comment section filled with unrelated iamverysmart comments.

Also, "piracy" or "copyright infringement" isn't theft in any sense.

A key element of theft is that you deprive the rightful owner of something. You now have it and they no longer do. What makes it wrong is that the person who should have it no longer does. It's not that you have it. That's why the punishment for "mischief" where someone completely destroys something belonging to someone else is similar to the punishment for the theft of that same object.

Copyright infringement is breaking the rule that the state imposed giving someone the exclusive right to control the copying of something. You're not depriving anyone of anything tangible when you infringe a copyright. They still have the original, they still have any copies they made, any copies they gave out or sold are still where they were. The only thing you're doing is violating the rule that gave them exclusive control. If you're depriving someone of anything, it's depriving them of the opportunity they might have had to make money from selling a copy.

If anything, copyright infringement is more similar to trespassing than to theft. Just like copyright infringement, trespassing involves not allowing someone to control who accesses their property. If you sneak onto someone's campground property and have a bonfire party, the person loses the opportunity to rent out the campground for the bonfire, and any money they might have received for doing that. But, if you sneak in and sneak out and leave no trace, you could argue that nobody is harmed.

Closing your eyes, walking out of the room, changing the channel during the commercial break, all piracy. Hahahahahhahaha. Fuck these corporations

It doesn't have to be for profit, but it does require distribution of content you don't have the rights to redistribute. I think it's also fine to lump in acquiring content that you don't have the rights to (i.e. it doesn't matter which end of the transaction you're part of).

Blocking ads is merely a TOS violation, and it only applies if you actually agree to the TOS. If you don't consent to the TOS and the platform doesn't make any attempt to prevent you from using the service, then I think you have an argument that the TOS doesn't apply. I use YouTube w/o a YouTube account, so I don't consent to their TOS, but they still happily serve up content. So in my understanding, I'm not even violating any TOS because I haven't agreed to any, I'm just using their website with an add-on that blocks certain URLs. If YouTube decides to prevent me from accessing their content w/o agreeing to their TOS, then I'll probably stop watching YouTube, or maybe I'll decide to accept their TOS, idk, because it hasn't happened yet.

That said, I do feel bad for creators not making money from me blocking YouTube's ads, so I tend to donate or buy merch on occasion, and that eases my conscience. Regardless, I'm quite sure that if YouTube tried to argue that blacking ads was somehow a copyright violation, that they'd lose.

You're being pedantic, but I'm sure you understand the point.

Anybody who needs to be told this is either a newborn or braindead.

This is some sovereign citizen mental gymnastics.

So not at all?

Low bar

why cant yt delete the nsfw video instead they just age restrict it

All of their thumbnails are unfortunately click-baity. They spoke about ut in an older video. Apparently, the click-baity images drive too much traffic for them to justify something more subtle.

There's a Firefox plugin that replaces YT thumbnails with stills from the video. It makes browsing YT so much better.

what the shit is going on with that neon ass hair

Doesn't matter how good the video is if nobody clicks on it, Veritasium already made a great one about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

/r/punchablefaces material

I think he mentioned that ad-blocking is priacy, but I don't recall he said piracy is theft or piracy is inheritly unethical.

He mentioned many time that he pirates stuff, except he would pay for them first.

He did address this in the video

Do you have a source? I've watched his videos for awhile but I don't remember hearing this take from him.

It's a little bit more nuanced than that. Yes you're denying ad revenue but it's not a bad thing.

"These are my Principles and if you don't like them, I have others"

Linus didn't say piracy is theft to my knowledge. He pirates a bunch of games.

D-Brand paid him to bleach it.

A war they will lose. They will spend everything on something a COMMUNITY will rally together to defeat. Take the L and come up with a better plan.

What the heck does complying with wiretap orders have to do with removing YouTube videos about adblockers?

Yes, he also said that piracy can be a personal choice, and showed how to do it.

he did, but didn't condemn it.

Yes, and that he does it as well.

He is a big proponent of piracy.

He did, and I disagree with that point. Piracy is copyright violation, ad-blocking is TOS violation. They're entirely different things.

That said, he said he understands why people do it and didn't condemn it, and in this video shows how you can do it. I think that's laudable, I just disagree with his assertion that blocking ads is in some way piracy.

I don't get how that relates to ungoogling your life but OK.

I don't see it, probably it was removed again

German has the term raubkopieren for piracy which translated literally means theft-copying. I kind of find that term funny because somehow it makes it sound even worse than just piracy, since with pirates we at least have the pop fiction image of the pirate, and because it has a paradoxical sound to it ("how can you steal something by copying?").

WHAT

It's a user retention thing: if a user is reloading a video repeatedly while they're trying to serve an ad, there's (probably) something wrong with the ad server, so the best business move is to send them to the content they came to see, unmonetized, so that they will continue to use the platform in the future where you can monetize their future visits.

Found this on the YT app on Roku awhile back and it makes watching without browser-style ad blockers acceptable

SponsorBlock does not change anything about the money they get from sponsorships. So no, that does not help them more than otherwise.

I heard the legends of the Chinese anthem being at PornHub and took a look a while ago. It turns out that they've removed all videos from unverified users and blocked them from uploading.

Remove the dot at the end of the link: https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0

Its against YouTube's TOS to download content, and to block advertisements. Another lesser known, and less enforced part of the TOS also covers content instructing how to download content and block ads. I'm pretty sure that's the reason YouTube took it down at least.

On another note, huge props to Linus for teaching how to block ads on channel and company, with a hundred mouths to feed, majorly funded by advertisments. I know he caught a lot of shit before with gamer nexus, but they deserve props for this.

The category was "harmful or dangerous content" and reason was "violates ToS"

Works for me, and the post was edited before your comment.

It works for me. So I don't know what to do.