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Hell I saw less ads on limewire
I never saw any ads on any torrented linux isos.
Given how ubiquitous ad blockers are now, I’m partially convinced that most are just masochists that want to suffer through that shit.
Without uBlock some sites are downright unusable. I dare you to go to weather.com or any fandom.com site with ad blockers, greasemonkey and NoScript deactivated and try not to lunch your monitor
It’s fucking bad for netflix and prime though too. Like every 3 minutes bad. I get free basic netflix with my work phone, so I watch it sometimes. Same with my partners work, they get prime. I’m not sure it’s even worth free tbh.
YouTube just hit me with my first PiP ad, it’s a nightmare who the shit came up with this
Fuck YouTube.
Yeah, Python pip is a nightmare.
Pirated Software also works much better than legal software. Strike that, pirated Software works, legal software might work?
We need Piracy Premium which would be a subscription based service so you don’t see piracy ads.
The best ones already have no ads, and they do it for free. They run off donations only. You just need to find a way to get invited into them.
Like so many grammar “rules”, this one was caused by one fussy dude who got his panties in a twist about an aspect of language:
This isn’t an example of how modern English is going to the dogs. Less has been used this way for well over a thousand years—nearly as long as there’s been a written English language. But for more than 200 years almost every usage writer and English teacher has declared such use to be wrong. The received rule seems to have originated with the critic Robert Baker, who expressed it not as a law but as a matter of personal preference. Somewhere along the way—it’s not clear how—his preference was generalized and elevated to an absolute, inviolable rule.
It’s a semi obscure “rule” of zero consequence that carries a false sense of knowledgeable power. Of course fucking pedants love it
Why would they only love it whilst mid-coitus?
This image won’t load for me. I just want to know if it’s Stannis Baratheon. Can someone tell me?
Affirmative!
Thank you!
Yes, it is
Thanks!
Call the FCC, Max Headroom hacked his way onto Lemmy!
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.
Miss texting from my pocket while maintaining eye contact.
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.
pirating sites serve no video
There are pirate sites that do video streaming
dont produce any content
Neither youtube does, at least piracy sites have to find a way to rip the vids
no dev team because its a copy paste
open source implementation Which is true only for a few sites and many low quality ones
and you forgot that you need to pay money to host the site server and pay for the domain name
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.
I thought the meme was about ads on torrent tracker sites.
They seem to be under the impression that those are somehow safer than torrenting, despite the opposite being true.
In theory, copyright infringement is committed by the uploader, not the downloader. As such, torrenting is more dangerous if you allow it to seed instead of just leach.
Depends on the country
But there’s so much else to pirate: games, books, music, roms. There’s a wide world of content out there! (Obligatory don’t pirate stuff, visit your local library and ask a librarian to hook you up. Or do. Whatever, IAALIANYL[I Am A Librarian I Am Not Your Librarian.])
Am A Librarian I Am Not Your Librarian
I love this.
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.
I think it’s better because piracy sites aren’t flooded with fake Ai soundtracks, fake videos and bullshit. People want authenticity and truthfulness.
ads? What is this, 2013?
Do you people not use ublock?
Fewer
Yes, they run less fewer too.
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?
In what way would I be trolling. A full video file, say you’re watching the Olympics, will be tens of gigabytes. That same file streamed will be maybe 200mb after compression and bit rate changes for your browser.
