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And people judged me for watching YouTube with uBlock Origin, or via NewPipe for eons.
Look who's laughing now.
Those aren't opinions I would care about in the first place. Somebody thinks you should be watching ads? WTF?
LTT is very sure that following the FBIs recommendation for always using an adblocker is piracy for one example.
but google's profits!!!
Please think about billionaires!
There's some justification for this idea since the people who buy the products advertised by ads are the source of the money that goes to the producers of the videos.
But that's not happening