I know the topic of whether adblock is piracy is debated, but I am guessing there are a lot of adblock users here and I was wondering if anyone has seen the youtube adblock warning message in the wild. I use ublock origin and still haven't seen it once.

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[+] nicetriangle@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Don't give them any ideas. lol Otherwise, cable boxes around the world are likely to receive a firmware update that blocks you from changing channels during commercials.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All future displays will have built in cameras that start dimming and turn off the screen if it notices you aren't paying attention. They'll say it is a power saving feature, but not put in an option to disable it.

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This kinda already exists. There's that smart tv you can get for free by agreeing to built-in ads via a display underneath the main one or something. LTT discussed it recently; I think I saw a WAN show clip about it.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

That's creepy.

[–] pirate526@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Exactly. You’re being fed HTML etc and then deciding how to render it (or part of it in the case of ad blocking). This isn’t piracy. There’s no rules that come with the HTML in terms of how to render it. Different browsers can render it a number of different ways so how is not rendering part of it any different?

It is indeed a ludicrous idea.