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Not the point I was making.

This is " People getting upset when an idiot tries to blame end users, instead of holding the people who created the problem accountable"

Did Linus blame anyone though?
No. He simply stated a fact.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t piracy?

Downloading old Nintendo ROMs because the company refuses to redistribute them is also piracy, even though I would say it’s morally justified.

Its protection.

From your point of view, yeah. Not from the point of view of the creator and the platform.

Linus isn’t clutching his pearls nor is he crying, he’s just pointing out you are circumventing the method of payment to the platform. It is detrimental to both the platform and the creator. That is a fact. Your choice has an impact and you should be aware of that.
But at no point did he say “you’re a bad person if you use adblock”.

What has got you so worried?

I really don’t get the hate he got for that take.

Circumventing the method of payment could be argued as being a form of piracy. From that point of view, adblock is piracy.

Like them or not, YouTube is not a charity and requires the serving of ads to continue funding the service. You could argue about how they go about it, but it’s a fact they need some sort of income to continue to exist.
Same goes for YouTubers. They get a percentage of that ad revenue. And they also need some form of income.

But just because he said so doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand why adblock is used. He didn’t say “don’t use adblock.” He’s shown how to use adblock before and since. He’s also mentioned that buying something from their webshop gives them a lot more money than turning off adblock.

Saying “watching movies for free is pirating” isn’t the same as saying “you shouldn’t pirate movies”.
Using adblock isn’t engaging with YouTube on YouTube’s terms.

Magnetic field ≠ electric field

This might match your criteria:

(Jokes aside, I do agree with your sentiment)

Does it?

Previous benchmarks have shown the 8 GB models seriously fell behind in performance.

How to avoid: right click the start icon (or press win + x) and go to “Shut down or sign out” that way.

I try not using the Windows start menu anymore because I hate seeing the little “notification” bubble on my profile, when dismissing it it returns within a few days!
Yes Microsoft, I am aware I cancelled 365. Thanks for reminding me why I did so.

Ah, like so. I thought you were referring to the article on the Patreon website with your initial comment, rather than the article in the post itself.

You’re right, the article is wrong. “Gross revenue” makes no sense.

Which is contradictory to the first line of the linked essay.

Is it though?
Current sign-ups are likely through Patreons own payment system, which will stay as it is. It would be like signing up in the web version, then going on to use the iOS app. That wouldn’t suddenly subtract 30% from a payment Apple has no control over.

Hmm, you’re right. A ctrl + f5 reload with NoScript enabled does clear the colours, and won’t have them come back until I disable NoScript again. Not sure what exactly it is then.

Ah, I didn’t know NoScript was exclusive to Firefox.

That’s strange though. Here you can see NoScript breaks the mini js html editor embedded on the page, yet the colours work fine for me.

I wasn’t able to make the highlighting work on a very quick and dirty html page of my own though. Not sure if I missed anything.

What browser do you use?

What browser do you use, or do you have some reading plug-ins?

For me it looks fine on the Firefox android app

Right? Why do anything. Who needs more than a terminal interface anyway.

Edit: I really don’t understand what the sentiment here is. Any UI changes are somewhat arbitrary. I don’t get why that’s an issue.

Robots.txt does literally nothing. It’s a piece of courtesy that’s easily ignored if you don’t care.

You shouldn’t be getting any new results if you do that, older posts will/may remain indexed.

This is where you get into the whole webscraping debate you also have with LLM “datasets”.

If you, as a website host, are detecting a ton of requests coming from a singular IP you can block said address. There are ways around that by making the requests from different IP addresses, but there are other ways to detect that too!

I’m not sure if Reddit would try to sue Microsoft or DDG if they started serving results anyway through such methods. I don’t believe it is explicitly disallowed.
But if you were hoping to deal in any way with Reddit in the future I doubt a move like this would get you in their good graces.

All that is to say; I won’t visit Reddit at all anymore now that their results won’t even show up when I search for something. This is a terrible move and will likely fracture the internet even more as other websites may look to replicate this additional source of revenue.

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