A_Random_Idiot

I hate having to be on the side of "Defending" google... but this is the app makers fault, They are the ones using whats provided and installing the artificial limitations.

Google just provided the capability to do it. The app makers are executing it.

Projecting a bit with that whole "Acting superior" claim, aintcha.

You are trying to put the onus on end users, while also simultainously pursuing some weird guilt based appeal to emotion.

And still refuse to address the core issue, which is the lack of moderation and policing of content creating the essential need for adblockers in the first place.

Ad companies don't get create this toxic hellscape, then blame end users with wrung hands and empty "Won't someone thing of the poor content creators" appeals to emotion to try and handwave the responsibility away.

Why won't they think of the content creators? Why wont they do something to reduce the actual necessity for adblock in the interest of the poor, downtrodden content creators?

Especially in a world where far better alternatives (like merch and patreon type sites) exists to give them money, directly, without having to deal with advertising hellscapes.

I don't voluntarily consume malware, malicious software, or hate speech/propaganda.

Its just forced upon me when I don't protect myself.

Are you really happy with yourself, white knighting for the poor defenseless advertising companies? The ones who serve this shit, without policing or moderation? The lack of which is precisely why adblocking, the thing you are trying to blame users for with your disingenuous "You criticize society, yet you exist in society.. interesting" type argument, exists in the first place.

All the ad companies have to do to get rid of adblocking is police and moderate their content that they serve. Something they actively refuse to do.

And yet you don't have a single criticism for that. You have nothing but vigorous defense of it, and shifting of blame to the users, for it.

Your entire post is trying to frame end users for the responsibility of what the advertising companies have done (or more like failed to do) and caused as a result.

You're trying to hold a fork up and demand everyone acknowledge as a spade, and ridicule anyone who doesnt agree with a very dismissive attitude.

Roms arent adblocking.

You’re bypassing payment (in the form of watching ads)

By this argument going to the bathroom during a commercial break is piracy.

This isnt "someone being offended when accused of piracy"

This is " People getting upset when an idiot tries to blame end users, instead of holding the people who created the problem accountable"

Cause adblock isnt a user problem.

Its an ad service problem. They created a hostile environment where people had to run adblockers to protect themselves against unmoderated and unpoliced content and malicious/infected advertising.

If you have issues, blame the people who caused it, not the end users trying to protect themselves.

you do realize that ads appear in more places than just youtube, right?

Yeah, the up/down system is what prompted lots of bots to get created in the first place. because it leads to super easy post manipulation.

Get rid of it and go back to how web forums used to be. No upvotes, No downvotes, no stickers, no coins, no awards. Just the content of your post and nothing more. So people have to actually think and reply, rather than joining the mindless mob and feeling like they did something.

The economic reality is that I have to use adblocking because ad services refuse to police and moderate their system. Thats the economic reality that they created.

Having a problem with the end user protecting themselves from what the advertisers and their ad services created is just trying to shift blame.

which already happens with the stupid up/downvote system.

Where popular things, not right things, frequently get uplifted.