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Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://files.catbox.moe/a6111d.png / https://nitter.poast.org/LinusTech/status/1825956050685800834

If you go the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY. You will see it's gone. So Youtube being Youtube.

Here's a Odysee mirror of the video, https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd argue this as well. I see it in a similar way. Linus is obviously not trying to sit on some high horse and condemn piracy, he's just calling a spade a spade.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No, he's calling a spade a backhoe. Piracy is one of two things, depending on your definition:

sharing/accessing copyrighted material you don't have the rights for (i.e. seeding or downloading a torrent)
circumventing technical restrictions on copyrighted content (e.g. DRM)

Blocking ads does neither of those things, it merely blocks loading of content that you don't want to see. It's basically the modern version of a DVR, where you can choose to cut out portions of a video that you don't want (e.g. the ads).

These things are technically piracy:

using a YouTube downloader
sharing downloaded YouTube videos
posting a YouTube video that you don't own
using substantial portions of a YouTube video you don't own w/o authorization in your own video (i.e. beyond Fair Use)

Blocking ads isn't one of those things, neither is skipping over parts of a video you don't want to see (i.e. the sponsor segment).

Blocking ads reduces revenue to Google and the video creator. That doesn't make it piracy, it's just being a jerk to the platform and the creator.