• hairinmybellybutt@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Even if they do that, some people will just create illegal website mirrors that remove ads.

    On reddit, people already copy paste articles when there’s a paywall. I can totally envision that thing to be more common.

    I am not fucking kidding, I will stop using websites if I cannot block ads. This is non negotiable. I don’t care about your business model, I have zero money to give you. I tried the official reddit app, and uninstalled within a week.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve even seen websites that copy stackoverflow questions and answers word for word, and just displays them differently.

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          1 year ago

          Well if the OG source uses DRM, fuck em! I don’t care if Google’s search engine goes to shit. Not sure how much shittier it can get, but fuck em!

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      1 year ago

      I said this the other day and had a user suggest there’s no point because Google will win, and it’ll be impossible to avoid this DRM garbage. They didn’t seem to grasp that you can just not use the websites that use that tech.

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      1 year ago

      Same here. Actually I uninstalled the official Reddit app within a day after seeing all these ads. My web experience is almost completely ad-free and if some ad or site comes around with ads ir user tracking, I don’t use it.

      I haven’t watched any un-proxied YouTube video for over five years now. Not sure how long this will still be possible in the future but I hope that also in the future people will find ways to circumvene big-tech surveillance.