i know this is extremely unlikely to happen, but imagine if both mozilla and google decides to remove adblock extensions in every way, if that happens, would you still pirate?

Some people might say about *arr aplications, but imo that wouldnt work, simply because without adblocks, the trackers would do something to stop it.

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[–] downpunxx@kbin.social 34 points 2 years ago

lol, what? Ad Blocking doesn't protect you from being discovered committing piracy, VPN's do

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago

i have no idea what connection you think there is between piracy and adblockers. if anything, wouldn't killing all adblockers encourage more piracy, not less?

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For people who pirate because they can't afford the increasingly more expensive games, how does the removal of adblocks change anything?

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think they're talking about ads on download pages making it more difficult to click the correct download button when pirating

[–] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Using those sites is just asking for trouble

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Agreed

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Blocking ads its not piracy.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think it's a qoute from some sitcome, I don't remember where I heard it. But it's "Not watching the ads is like stealing TV!". And it's about just changing the channel during an ad break. It's clearly a joke, too. But maybe some people actually believe that.

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

It's quoting Linus Tech Tips. And he's being mostly genuine about it.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There will always be adblock in some form, it can't be removed.

But even if it somehow happened, I don't see how that would affect my pirating. Sure, some torrent sites might be a bit harder to navigate, but that's just an inconvenience.

[–] hellequin67@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They can remove adblocks all they want.

Private DNS will still exist, there's at least two that have noads DNS, Mullvad and LibreDNS.

They work in most browser's/devices etc.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

And if, a browser will be forked that can still use the extension interface.

[–] Onionizer@geddit.social 1 points 2 years ago

That doesn't work if the ad is served from the same server as the website

[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I believe Proton also has the ability to block ads via DNS.

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I pirate cause the companies that produce what I want are greedy shit bags not because of ads.

[–] Skoobie@lemmy.film 4 points 2 years ago

Ads have never stopped me. Reasonable pricing to access content stopped for me for several years tho. Fuck you, Zaslav.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

i would just disable js

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

You can disable JS or use LibreJS to disable proprietary JS code.

[–] zbecker@mastodon.zbecker.cc 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@XeryBlox most people who pirate a lot have automated setups that auto download every. The software stack that's commonly used is *Arr.

Sonarr for TV, Radarr for movies and lidarr for music.

There are also no ads when you go to the trackers directly via the API. Same for usenet indexers

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It would just bring back street crime and physical boosting and robbery. Same thing for blocking porn.... all the creepy 70/80/90s shit would come back...

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I really hate ads, too. But I don't think I would be turning to street crime because of them.

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

"OH they put ads everywhere and won't let me hide them? Looks like it's time for me to become a domestic terrorist"

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Idk I guess I mean like boosted vendors. In 90s and early 00 I used to go to expos or even certain street vendors and they would have boosted or ripped movies and software.

And in terms of porn I mean sex spots scattered around cities and towns.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 2 points 2 years ago

But why would this happen because of ads?

I don't see this direct link between adblockers and being able to pirate stuff.

[–] ruination@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Even if they do remove them from the official stores, you can always go straight to the source and sideload it.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I haven’t used a tracker with ads in over a decade.

[–] pre@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@XeryBlox The first thing I would pirate would be a hacked version of Firefox that had ad-blockers in it.

If I can't get that then I'd think about abandoning the web for Gemini.

[–] Saganastic@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

You don't even need a hacked version. Just use an older version. Besides, Firefox is open source, I'm sure someone would fork off an adblock allowed version.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, there are still private, adfree trackers and things and I've been pirating before even Napster was a thing and the Internet was rife with malicious ads and popups. If anything, I'd pirate harder out of spite.

[–] YoMismo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Many of us was already a pirate before Mozilla, Google and adblocks were created.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

yes, if pirating were more of a pain in the ass because of ads, I would still do it.

[–] supervent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

Mldonkey/amule/emule do not have any ad anyway

[–] callyral@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Not much of a pirate, but I do like blocking ads. In that situation, here are some browsers I believe would still have ad blocking capabilities.

Firefox-based browsers:

Librewolf (privacy-focused; comes with uBlock Origin)
Tor (don't know much about it, but it probably would have ad blocking still)

Chromium-based:

Vivaldi (it appears they have built-in ad blocking; closed source though)
Bromite (mobile; not sure if still continued)