@jdommert
The reason why I am now using AdBlock on every platform that supports them is that YouTube showed me ads for literal Cam-Sites. Multiple times.
@Jedi817
Google's policy is that as long as you pay them, they literally do not care what you advertise. There are ads on YouTube for predatory businesses, exploitative hypersexualized content, mobile games that use stolen footage from other games (or other copyrighted content), and even outright scams. They do NOT care as long as they get paid for them. It's always been about the money.
@TenaciousLeeTV
For the same reasons they allow ads for scams? Money is money.
@Julienraptor01
The difference between degoogle your life 2 and pie, is that they paid for the thing to appear
@Boroda4Gaming
"Cosplay as a journalist" is wild
@billydrink
I grew up always having adblockers. When youtube first started fighting against adblockers and Linus shared his views I decided to turn it off for the first time since 2009 thinking that I should support the creators I watch religiously. A couple of months later I turned it back on due to every single ad being either a scam or some adult content. Every time someone in the family gets a new device, I always set it up with an adblocker. The whole conversation about ethics flies out the window when youtube, a primarily child oriented app, is actively unsafe for children. In the years since both the ads and bot comments problems have gotten so much worse.
@EOR2742
Adblocking is still not piracy. TOS does not mention adblockers being banned so users are under no obligation to watch ads. Until it's in the TOS, it cannot be considered piracy because users are not employing creators to make videos. Adblockers are legal, downloading a song or movie without paying is illegal. There's the difference
@RyanS493
The visible change in Luke’s demeanor when he heard “Honey” hit hard 😂
@HiTechLoLife
Pie adblock is run by the guys who made Honey. PLEASE IGNORE IT.
@albinjt
YT cares too much about guidelines followed by videos but never about their ads
@MTWidowan
"Whether you cosplay as a journalist or not, you sort of just have a moral obligation to reach out and get the other side of the story" 💀 the jabs
@thebest2897
The internet is unsafe without Adblock
@Raptremrum
Don't know if this will help anyone, but on the YouTube mobile app, on the home screen, you can click the triple dots beside the shorts to stop seeing them. It doesn't remove the shorts tab at the bottom, but if you're like me, and never click on that, and just get sucked in with the thumbnails, its a godsend.
@blackshackle
I've used ad blockers (and supported them) for nearly the last 20 years after getting a virus via an ad on a website I trusted. After having to go through that as a broke college kid with no backups back in the early 2000s I said never again. After that, I supported ad blockers when ISPs started warming up to the idea of charging you based on your data usage. My philosophy on that was that if you're gonna do it, then I'm going to want 100% granularity regarding what makes it onto my network. Fast forward to present day, I use and support ad blockers because I hate having to sit through a 3 minute YouTube ad, only to then immediately be served a 3 minute sponsored ad from the content creator I'm trying to watch, only to go right back into a YouTube ad. It's war now.
@cpypcy
In current year adblock is more about protecting your PC and browser from malware and other badware risks. Also protects you from tracking. There is literal malware in ads on youtube so adblock is now pretty much antivirus for your browser.
@DisturbedNeo
One of the reasons I like normal YouTube videos is that they just end. Sure, autoplay exists, and is on by default (because of course it is), but if you disable it, then when a video ends, that's it, no more content, you get a moment to breathe and soak in what you've just watched. Short-form content, like TikTok, Reels, Shorts, etc, will immediately replay the video the moment it ends, so not only are you constantly streaming new content when you swipe, but if you don't swipe, you're still constantly being shown a playing video. The only way to stop it, besides closing the app, is to tap the video to pause it, but even then, it's only paused, and the moment you swipe to the next video, it's autoplaying again. Plus, like Luke says, people are so conditioned at this point to swipe in all of these apps that tapping on the video to pause it doesn't even cross their mind as an option. We, and by "we" I mean basically every country in the west, need better laws to protect us against this psychological warfare designed to extract money from our monkey brains.
@ogChaaka
Can I run my own scripts on Google servers? No? Then why can they run theirs on mine? Put blockers on everything and donate regularly.
@lucas.dillmann
People came out of doom scrolling after hours remembering nothing they saw because our brains take time to process and "save" something, but since the content is seconds short and they go to the next, our brains don't get the time they need to remember such content long term.
@ocarina0001
adblock is not piracy. there is no form of unauthorized copying or distribution of copyrighted content when i block ads. no intellectual property is being stolen or reproduced when i block ads. i can understand what linus is trying to say, in that an ad played should be the "cost" to watch a video, but conflating adblock and piracy is showing a grave misunderstanding of what those things mean considering his career in this world.
@garfrockbreadtroll