Because Biden is a boring president.

He had no controversies, He said no outrageous things. The worst thing Biden ever did was show up, heavily jetlagged, to a debate, and still managed to perform decently in it (despite what the mass hallucination the media has incited would have you believe)

He did his job, he did it well.

And because of that, people didnt turn into broadcast media in droves to see the latest tidbits on what he had done. So ratings, and viewership, and profit declined for broadcast media.

Which is why they love and want another Trump presidency.

Because he is always saying something horrible, doing something horrible, has some new horrible controversy, almost every fucking day.

Things that drive people to turn to the news every day and watch, in numbers that havent been seen since 9/11, and those numbers endured for 4 years of presidency.

The Broadcast Media is addicted to trump, and will stop at nothing to ensure they can continue hit their drug of choice every. single. day. multiple times a day, if possible. and the best way to do that is to whitewash everything he does and says, and go after his opponents with an aggression that is worthy of lawsuits, to ensure he can be president again and give them those ratings, viewership and income again.

the tape spooled up on the reel inside a VHS looks like a thi(c/k) dis(c/k)

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

In an effort to not show bias, we are giving incredible bias to Trump that no one else would get.

Seriously.

It sounds like a fucking nightmare. Imagine working on something for days and it refuses to work cause you accidentally capitalized 1 file name and dont notice it?

That sounds like the kind of shit they’d do in tech hell.

I wish my old angelfire site was still around…

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.

This is why I love my username.

Cause its low hanging fruit that people who can mount no actual counter point cant resist the urge to reach for.

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.

Adblocking isnt piracy, from any point of view.

Its protection. Protection from sudden loud noises and visual diarrhea. Protection from malware and viruses from random website ads, and protection from Right Wing Extremist Propaganda like PragerU videos detailing how the black man should be grateful for the history of slavery and oppression (which has had a documented, factual effect on driving people into right wing extremist behavior, and the violent rhetoric and actions that inevitably follow)

As long as all of that exists, Adblocking will never be piracy. Adblocking is, and will be, mandatory protection.

And if Linus, or anyone else, wants to clutch pearls and cry about adblocking… They can take their complaints to Google/Facebook/Other Ad services, because their lack of moderation and inability to policing content on their services are directly responsible for creating the necessity for adblocking.

A system like that sounds like it could be easily abused/manipulated into creating echo chambers of nothing but agreed-to right-think.

We should all endeavor to learn from your shining example.

My ass he cares if you do it safely.

He’s just trying to pull views from the current controversy. Which I have no problem with, thats what youtubers do. They try to ride every wave and pull viewers from it.

I just take issue with the smug hypocrisy he exhibits while doing it.