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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•14 days agoThen don’t watch/read the content. Don’t consent Samsung/appke/Walmart getting your money? Don’t buy their shit. Ez.
minus-squareLog in | Sign upcakelinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-213 days agoOh, I consent to the content. Just not to the ads, so I stream the content and my software skips the ads for me automatically. Couldn’t be simpler. Puts me in control over what I do and don’t download onto my computer. I’m not buying anything.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•13 days agoThe author doesn’t consent to you blocking ads, simple as that. Might consent to skipping. Some. In certain situations. A shop giving you a free sample of cheese doesn’t mean you can fill your pockets with the contents of the cash register.
minus-squareLog in | Sign upcakelinkfedilinkEnglish1•13 days agoIt’s my computer, not theirs. Watching a video isn’t the same as taking money, you seem to have a lot of confusion on this point.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•13 days agoAgain, spoken truly as someone who never paid for bandwidth, storage, compute, power, rent, ac, salaries…
Then don’t watch/read the content. Don’t consent Samsung/appke/Walmart getting your money? Don’t buy their shit. Ez.
Oh, I consent to the content. Just not to the ads, so I stream the content and my software skips the ads for me automatically. Couldn’t be simpler. Puts me in control over what I do and don’t download onto my computer. I’m not buying anything.
The author doesn’t consent to you blocking ads, simple as that. Might consent to skipping. Some. In certain situations.
A shop giving you a free sample of cheese doesn’t mean you can fill your pockets with the contents of the cash register.
It’s my computer, not theirs. Watching a video isn’t the same as taking money, you seem to have a lot of confusion on this point.
Again, spoken truly as someone who never paid for bandwidth, storage, compute, power, rent, ac, salaries…