- web browser: piracy tool
- JavaScript dev console: piracy tool
curl: piracy tool- TCP/IP: piracy tool
- Router: piracy Tool
- laptop: piracy tool
- morse code: piracy tool
TVs are also piracy tools used for viewing pirated content
Film studios are piracy tools. 100% of pirated films were produced in a film studio
this is how they sound to me
ban everything to prevent piracy
or just kill the need for it
I’m not going to pay apple to show me ads while I watch slow horses
If there were no people, there’d be no piracy. We’re all piracy tools.
You jest, but i know a person that was accused of “hacking” a website by removing a client-side form validation check
Ppl have been accused of crimes for pointing out, in a 100% white-hat way, that a site lets you access other ppl’s accounts just by incrementing a number in the URL. No verification against it.
If someone abuses that maliciously? Sure, go after them. But these were honest security white-hats trying to warn, before scammers exploited it.
To be fair, being accused for that is exceptional, not normal. But it has happened. More than once!
i found that i have zero tolerance for ads after blocking all the ads in all my devices at the firewall.
now i marvel that people are able to tolerate it somehow – they can literally watch the same one hundreds of times in a few minutes and they don’t seem to even be aware of it.
It always confuses the hell out of me when I see an ad from someone’s phone or computer when showing me a YouTube video or something. It’s so jarring that I feel like I got malware on my skin lol
What firewall rules do you implement that effectively blocks YouTube ads?
Different person here, but with yt-dlp I never see ads. Well, not the ones YT adds. The only thing I ever saw is if somebody diverts into speaking an ad in their own voice as part of their stream. That’s harder to prevent. For YT ad inserts tho, can’t remember ever seeing one.
