Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me:
Tja@programming.dev 16 hours agoI have been labeled a troll many a time, for:
- arguing against adblockers
- arguing for YouTube premium
- saying the USSR killed a bunch of people (and many other historical facts)
- saying not voting for Kamala carries responsibility for what trump does
- saying that the average voter prefers moderate democrats
- condemning treatment of Uygurs
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Arguing against adblocker and for YouTube premium is the most center of the bell curve IQ meme take I’ve ever heard.
vga@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
I use adblockers and pirate stuff, but I don’t try to fool myself into thinking that it’s an ethically sound thing to do.
antonim@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Controlling what content is shown on my screen is unethical? Wow.
vga@sopuli.xyz 46 minutes ago
It’s possible for choices and actions to be both ethical and unethical at the same time. Some people (like you, I’m guessing by your comment) fool themselves into thinking that what they are doing is entirely ethical.
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That’s kind of half the picture though. Adblocking and piracy are not done in a vacuum. You typically block ads in response to the unethical practice of hostile design and the abuse of human psychology to be conditioned positively to something through exposure rather than just making a good product. Piracy is often in response to unethical business practices as well.
If none of those unethical forces existed, you can be sure there would be a lot less pirates and adblockers. But in our current world piracy and adblocking are often straight up ethical in relative terms.
Tja@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Adblockers are a pain in the ass for many reasons. Small websites can’t realistically fund themselves with other sources, big players like newspapers end up putting paywalls limit access to quality journalism or selling themselves to billionaires who can run them at a loss in exchange of influence on the reporting. You end up with billionaires controlling all media and no way for small shops to compete with them.
YouTube premium: YouTube ads are fucking annoying, adblocking on TVs is unreliable at best, impossible at worst, I want to support the people who create the content I enjoy and the price for a whole family, for a whole month… is one third of the price of going to the movies once.
antonim@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
You can donate to most content creators directly, without the semi-parasitic intermediary that is Google.