🖕 Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

    • theherk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Same person that said ad blocking was the same as piracy.

      edit: People downvoting me like I disagreed with him. Just saying how he looks at it. I think it’s a bit of a false dichotomy but they are definitely similar.

      • themakara@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        14 days ago

        Have you ever heard his full stance on the matter? Because he clearly stated that this is not a judgment against using it. Heck, he’s been open about having sailed the high seas himself and still doing so for media he physically owns.

        It’s just that gaining access to media while circumventing the payment (ads in this case) is basically piracy. Which is fair.

        Signed, A uBlock User

        • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          13 days ago

          I trust Linus is being sincere when he says “it’s not a judgement” but blocking ads is being compared to a criminal doing copyright infringement (illegal). The word used is one originally meaning for a person murdering others on boats (immoral), and it’s used because it’s pejorative. It’s unavoidably judgemental.