i know this is extremely unlikely to happen, but imagine if both mozilla and google decides to remove adblock extensions in every way, if that happens, would you still pirate?

Some people might say about *arr aplications, but imo that wouldnt work, simply because without adblocks, the trackers would do something to stop it.

nicman24
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i would just disable js

Skoobie
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Ads have never stopped me. Reasonable pricing to access content stopped for me for several years tho. Fuck you, Zaslav.

downpunxx
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lol, what? Ad Blocking doesn’t protect you from being discovered committing piracy, VPN’s do

Vaggumon
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I pirate cause the companies that produce what I want are greedy shit bags not because of ads.

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@XeryBlox most people who pirate a lot have automated setups that auto download every. The software stack that’s commonly used is *Arr.

Sonarr for TV, Radarr for movies and lidarr for music.

There are also no ads when you go to the trackers directly via the API. Same for usenet indexers

callyral
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Not much of a pirate, but I do like blocking ads. In that situation, here are some browsers I believe would still have ad blocking capabilities.

Firefox-based browsers:

  • Librewolf (privacy-focused; comes with uBlock Origin)

  • Tor (don’t know much about it, but it probably would have ad blocking still)

Chromium-based:

  • Vivaldi (it appears they have built-in ad blocking; closed source though)

  • Bromite (mobile; not sure if still continued)

Mldonkey/amule/emule do not have any ad anyway

@mateomaui@reddthat.com
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yes, if pirating were more of a pain in the ass because of ads, I would still do it.

pre
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@XeryBlox The first thing I would pirate would be a hacked version of Firefox that had ad-blockers in it.

If I can’t get that then I’d think about abandoning the web for Gemini.

Saganastic
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You don’t even need a hacked version. Just use an older version. Besides, Firefox is open source, I’m sure someone would fork off an adblock allowed version.

I mean, there are still private, adfree trackers and things and I’ve been pirating before even Napster was a thing and the Internet was rife with malicious ads and popups. If anything, I’d pirate harder out of spite.

Even if they do remove them from the official stores, you can always go straight to the source and sideload it.

I haven’t used a tracker with ads in over a decade.

You can disable JS or use LibreJS to disable proprietary JS code.

Many of us was already a pirate before Mozilla, Google and adblocks were created.

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