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    11 day ago

    Then don’t watch/read the content. Don’t consent Samsung/appke/Walmart getting your money? Don’t buy their shit. Ez.

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      17 hours ago

      Oh, I consent to the content. Just not to the ads, so I stream the content and my software skips the ads for me automatically. Couldn’t be simpler. Puts me in control over what I do and don’t download onto my computer. I’m not buying anything.

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        116 hours ago

        The author doesn’t consent to you blocking ads, simple as that. Might consent to skipping. Some. In certain situations.

        A shop giving you a free sample of cheese doesn’t mean you can fill your pockets with the contents of the cash register.

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          116 hours ago

          It’s my computer, not theirs. Watching a video isn’t the same as taking money, you seem to have a lot of confusion on this point.

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            110 hours ago

            Again, spoken truly as someone who never paid for bandwidth, storage, compute, power, rent, ac, salaries…