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Are you seriously complaining that a company is trying to prevent you from pirating their content?
This isn't a method to access any paid content for free. At "worst" it's an ad blocker.
And before you come up with some other shit, I'm from the pro-piracy lemmy instance. I don't actually care if I hurt Google, and if I want to support a creator then pretty much any other fuckong option than giving them more ad impressions on youtube will get more money to the creator. We're talking like 10,000 ad views for a few cents. It's not worth it, and the majority of creators I watch actively endorse ad blocking.
Dude, I don't give a fuck if people pirate shit, go nuts. But to complain about a company trying to stop piracy is fucking stupid. What do you expect them to do just smile and be like ok here you go, invalidate our business model!
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It's not really an ad blocker when it just doesn't implement however Youtube does ads. Ss far as I know, Youtube doesn't even document how to implement ads.
Accurate.
I was simplifying it for the type of person who could possibly think NewPipe was piracy.