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		Brendinooo 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has... I'm pretty anti-piracy, and I don't think ad-blocking is piracy. Metaphors are dangerous, but, for the purposes of this specific comparison, I see piracy as breaking into a video store and taking a disc, and ad blocking as allowing some people into my house but not others. YouTube is free to block me as a user or put its content behind a paywall if it doesn't like me doing this, but I am also free to decide what comes into my browser.

sidrag22 12 days ago [–]

and they won't block you, because they understand that their dominance of this particular style of video content requires allowing everyone in.

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