Pirated Software also works much better than legal software. Strike that, pirated Software works, legal software might work?
I wonder how well this fantastic joke would do outside of Lemmy.
Welcome to 2026, a time when piracy sites continue to receive cease-and-desist letters, but the applications that are being showered with unprecedented investments in the range of fantastrillions are also piracy ventures.
And photos are more grainy than those i took with my 2005 “smartphone”
Man I loved my RAZR flip phone.
Yeah I mean obviously? YouTube pays to serve video. pirating sites serve no video and dont produce any content no dev team because its a copy paste open source implementation.
It’s easy to forget, but the vast majority of people, especially young people, mean pirate streaming sites when they say piracy.
Even the piracy subreddit seems to be mostly about them after the great Exodus.
They seem to be under the impression that those are somehow safer than torrenting, despite the opposite being true. Though I guess they’re right about there being more to learn about torrents and other methods.
It hits me like a slap every time piracy comes up in conversation we’ll start to get into it when they ask me what site I use to watch things. I Once answered “jellyfin?” With some confusion before they brought up like hanime or some shit. Illegal streaming sites with mountains of ads are what most people mean when they say “piracy”. It’s the only piracy that can really access on their iPhone anyway.
Uh, you gotta pay hosting somehow, so most piracy sites rely on ad revenue to exist. It’s less overhead, but it ain’t completely free.
Most piracy sites don’t host anything besides a simple frontend, they just embed videos from a variety of other websites nobody would deign use directly, because those sure as hell do have worse ads than youtube.
No shit. It costs less to run than youtube which is why they run less ads
Yeah, but surely they have much more limited ad revenue than YouTube, given that a lot of the ads I see on those sites are ones that pay out less (like the shitty porn ads). Personally, I suspect it’s actually competition between piracy sites that has lowered the overall ads, because you have more choices than just one in comparison to YouTube, where you can use it or leave it.
Back in the day, piracy sites were relatively flooded with ads. Being exposed to many&sketchy ads was part of the cost of ‘free’ while the official sites had fewer and had higher standards for what advertisers they allowed.
Now piracy sites have a few annoying banners and fake download buttons, but it’s mostly just porn. Meanwhile the real sites are plastered to the point where content is crowded out and like 3/4ths of the ads are scams. There’s one on YouTube right now about a miracle disease cure claiming to be in the bible and it’s been running for over two weeks now; not to mention all the AI slop scams and malware.
It’s kind of absurd how shit the web has gotten as it was corporatized and monetized. Even the word “web” hardly applies anymore.
Many have forgotten what was lost, or never knew. Cyberspace was wonderful once.
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Nah people here are brainwormed on anything to do with money and interpret this as piracy sites being better than youtube because they run less ads.
Fewer
Uhhh. Downloading a full video file is much more resource intensive than watching a video on YouTube. YouTube uses compression, bitrate, etc to limit how much data is sent. Pirating sites can’t do that, they have to send the full file.
Are you trolling?
