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0 pointscxr1y ago0 comments

> a contrived way to excuse away getting the thing you simultaneously hate and crave

> just don't watch

Is your position a value judgement on the morality of not watching ads + technology that enables you to watch as few as possible? Or on the societal fixation to consume junk?

If the former, please elaborate on your position as it relates to VCRs and DVRs of the sort that are built-in to DirecTV receivers.

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pxoe1y ago

i just find the tension and contradictions of piracy kinda fascinating. "i hate this so much but i have to get it cause i apparently need it so badly". something being deserving to be obtained, yet not deserving to be paid for. and most of all, somebody feeling so entitled to it that they just can't actually refuse it completely.

cxrOP1y ago

You didn't answer the question, and overall you're being very mercurial in this thread. Write coherently.

> i just find the tension and contradictions of piracy kinda fascinating

You're calling watching a TV show without watching the commercials "piracy"? That's a very broad definition of "piracy" that I'd venture has almost no support outside of your comments here.

speff1y ago

I'd call it piracy in a way. Ads are how that specific piece of content is made available - whether it be for paying file hosting costs, creator living expenses, video production, etc. Consuming media without providing compensation for it (through ad views in this case) would meet my definition of new-age piracy.

wahnfrieden1y ago

You want adblock developers to be caged by the state, like piracy site providers?

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pxoe1y ago

If anything, i'd say that your interpretations and subsequent tangents are incoherent. It's really very simple. Get better at understanding.

cxrOP1y ago

I implore you to

(a) point to a single tangent that is not a direct response to your remarks and

(b) explain how your decision to rant, apropos of nothing, against this video player app's creators is anything other than a bizarre non-sequitur

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pxoe1y ago

cxrOP1y ago

You didn't answer the question, and overall you're being very mercurial in this thread. Write coherently.

> i just find the tension and contradictions of piracy kinda fascinating

You're calling watching a TV show without watching the commercials "piracy"? That's a very broad definition of "piracy" that I'd venture has almost no support outside of your comments here.

speff1y ago

wahnfrieden1y ago

You want adblock developers to be caged by the state, like piracy site providers?

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pxoe1y ago

If anything, i'd say that your interpretations and subsequent tangents are incoherent. It's really very simple. Get better at understanding.

cxrOP1y ago

I implore you to

(a) point to a single tangent that is not a direct response to your remarks and

(b) explain how your decision to rant, apropos of nothing, against this video player app's creators is anything other than a bizarre non-sequitur

1 more reply

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