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.

39 points

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

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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?

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

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

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Using those sites is just asking for trouble

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Agreed

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Blocking ads its not piracy.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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