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[–] majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It was on an episode of the WAN show a while back (I don't know which, I stopped watching a while ago). He said if you're not paying for the service or watching the Ads, it's the same as Piracy because your not paying what's owed.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Which is incorrect, because Google itself went like 15 years without showing any ads at all to like 5% of their users.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

If some hawker comes up to me and pushes a bunch of flowers in my face while I'm out walking, I'm not obligated to pay for smelling them. And if they're sufficiently aggressive, they're committing assault.