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[–] Retiring@lemmy.ml 117 points 1 year ago (26 children)

I feel so much better now, using uBlock and SponsorBlock watching their videos. I knew something was off when Linus started with the Anti-Union talks. Fuck this little bastard.

[–] keylogthis@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

That fucking douchebag tried equating adblocking to piracy in one of his videos. If I recall correctly, he also defended that position on a WAN show too, because of course, like he'd ever admit he's wrong. I'll never watch another LTT video... ever. I've unsubscribed from other channels for far less. I left reddit for what I feel is far less egregious then this situation when you factor everything. Because GN did an excellent job in showing how poorly accurate his benchmark videos are, but he could have gone even further. Anytime Linus talks about linux or the server platform, he is equally full of bad conclusions and misinformation. That wasn't even touched on. Take Linus's poor response and some of what we've learned with just how fucking toxic the work environment is there, and how rabid his fans have been. I'll never give them another view. No one should recommend his videos or channel, and those recommendations should be discouraged in all tech communities.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

oh wow you are salty about that? adblocking is piracy. either care or dont. i have been a pirate since the age of 6 and i dont

[–] keylogthis@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Adblocking is not piracy you dumb fucking nonce. I control what touches my network and my devices, if I block ad servers, that's not pirating, that's protecting myself from tracking.

i have been a pirate since the age of 6 and i dont

And I've done it for 20 years. I've had commercial free TV from torrent clients scraping RSS feeds since 2007, streamed over to TV running XBMC back then. Running CDs before that, 2003 and later in an OG Xbox with XBMC on it. And today I'm a member of 5 very sought after private trackers, and almost all of my piracy is automated to use those trackers and usenet with services that I selfhost like jackett and sonarr and lidarr. My knowledge of piracy sources and methods absolutely dwarfs yours.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao first you are younger than me. Second I didn't ask.

As if you worried about tracking, using YouTube or other google services is beyond stupid and don't tell me you are not.

Also

today I’m a member of 5 very sought after private trackers

Hahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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