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  • archonet@lemy.lol
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    see, I don’t negotiate with terrorists, so I use PopUpOFF and Bypass Paywalls Clean. Also AdNauseam, TrackMeNot, CanvasBlocker, and SponsorBlock to round out the “fuck you, fuck your ads, and fuck your tracking” suite.

    Hostile consumer practices becoming ubiquitous? Become a hostile consumer.

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      Calling a news site terrorist for asking for payment for the articles they write in the current political landscape sounds so… first-world-problems.

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        Running malware on someone else’s computer does not exactly make you the good one.

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        It was probably an entertaining exaggeration, but I don’t like how the term is being diluted by overuse. If a mosquito bites me, it’s a terrorist. Got a stone in your shoe? Believe it or not: Terrorist.

        The term has serious legal consequences in many countries, therefore we should make sure people don’t forget what its true meaning is.

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            Based on the fact that I haven’t lived under a rock for the last 10-20 years. The more the internet expanded the more sources there were to copy from and since then it has increased greatly. Sometimes you only need to search the headline and you’ll find several “sources” < I mean in general and not related to the article

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              That’s just arguing in bad faith, unless you can at least demonstrate that this particular journal has copied their articles in the past.

              Even if you were to entertain that thought however it doesn’t make them any more guilty of “terrorism” like op called them

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                I did not respond to the OP’s statement. I merely corrected your statement, as an extremely large number of articles are copied from somewhere these days. Which is absolutely no secret. International articles that are then chased through a translator and then published without being read. including nonsense from the translator.

                The terrorizing then takes place later with copyrights etc. between publishers and the public. Yes, DRM is already terrorizing

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    If I land on a site using Admiral AAB I do two things…

    1. update my blocklists with the new AAB servers
    2. return to the search engine and pick another site

    I really, really dislike Admiral AAB. Why would you want to evade a user’s adblocker just to ask them to switch it off? I will keep it on thank you very much!