Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.
Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.
https://files.catbox.moe/a6111d.png / https://nitter.poast.org/LinusTech/status/1825956050685800834
If you go the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY. You will see it's gone. So Youtube being Youtube.
Here's a Odysee mirror of the video, https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0.
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Funny, considering in the past he's gone on big rants about how adblocking is no different from piracy, and is theft.
But then again, its Linus we're talking about, its not like he has a particularly big issue with theft anymore.
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 was in the streams with Luke. I dont remember the exact ones, I'm sorry. I can say that the last time I saw it was years ago, though, but thats because I stopped watching his content years ago.
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actually found a clip embedded in another site, i'm shocked.
It was on an episode of the WAN show a while back (I don't know which, I stopped watching a while ago). He said if you're not paying for the service or watching the Ads, it's the same as Piracy because your not paying what's owed.
Which is incorrect, because Google itself went like 15 years without showing any ads at all to like 5% of their users.
If some hawker comes up to me and pushes a bunch of flowers in my face while I'm out walking, I'm not obligated to pay for smelling them. And if they're sufficiently aggressive, they're committing assault.
He talks about it in this video (the video this thread is about)
No, because that isn’t Linus’s take.
I think he’s referencing a stream once upon a time where Linus discussed the arguments around streaming and it’s impact on creators, from a creator’s perspective .
But because he uttered something in favor of ads on his videos-which is how they got paid-he’s now considered ultra pro invasive ads by the user above, who professes to not actually watching Linus
I watched this video before it was taken down. At the start of the YouTube section he says something along the lines of "I think ad block is theft, but you're going to do it, so I have a responsibility to make sure you do it safely."
My ass he cares if you do it safely.
He's just trying to pull views from the current controversy. Which I have no problem with, thats what youtubers do. They try to ride every wave and pull viewers from it.
I just take issue with the smug hypocrisy he exhibits while doing it.
It's a little bit more nuanced than that. Yes you're denying ad revenue but it's not a bad thing.
They are being paid by third parties to shove something in your face that you didn't come to see in the first place. They're not entitled to earn a cent from that, regardless of what bait they choose to place in the trap.
Who elected them and who consented to this manipulative, intrusive arrangement?
"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.