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.

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    3 years ago

    i have no idea what connection you think there is between piracy and adblockers. if anything, wouldn’t killing all adblockers encourage more piracy, not less?

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    3 years ago

    There will always be adblock in some form, it can’t be removed.

    But even if it somehow happened, I don’t see how that would affect my pirating. Sure, some torrent sites might be a bit harder to navigate, but that’s just an inconvenience.

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    3 years ago

    the only case i could see it stopping someone is if they just pirate for funsies and have the disposable income to buy anything they want lmao. if you need something and cant afford it then inconveniences and annoyances don’t matter

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    3 years ago

    For people who pirate because they can’t afford the increasingly more expensive games, how does the removal of adblocks change anything?

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    3 years ago

    It would just bring back street crime and physical boosting and robbery. Same thing for blocking porn… all the creepy 70/80/90s shit would come back…

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      3 years ago

      I really hate ads, too. But I don’t think I would be turning to street crime because of them.