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They're coming for our AdBlock, BUT I'VE GOT A LOADED TOMMY GUN RAHHHH-
Piracy - It's what naturally occurs when a digital service is not functioning to an ideal level.
Now, I am NOT a bad music fan for positing that.
I buy official band merch and preach my favourite Artist's names like the gospel. Their music literally keeps me alive.
(And when you listen to 30-year-old punk + grunge tracks like I do, it's kinda assumed those bands support piracy too when push comes to shove.)
I wouldn't call AdBlock itself "Piracy", but if they are to remove AdBlock then we may have to do some real swashbuckling. Arrgh...
I WISH I could trust streaming services to provide, but I can't. They're not sufficient. We're rammed with ads and usually the "service" takes a lion's share of the cut anyway, which is harmful to Artists as well as fans, and I refuse to support it.
Give me music or give me death, ya know?
My method of listening on-the-go for the past couple years:
(This genuinely takes 5 minutes to set up by the way)
- 1. Get Firefox browser on mobile (it's free, safe, whatever, you know what Firefox is),
- 2. Have the ready-to-install AdBlockers enabled and an additional background-playability extension,
- 3. Then just use plain old YouTube on there with your account that has music playlists and such on it.
Boom. That's all there is to it.
It will still take up data when you're not on WiFi, but even a somewhat reasonable package (10GB per month) can easily handle my constant headphone usage.
For 5 minutes of simple one-time only setup, and a few GB per month; I can listen ad-free, in the background, to ANYTHING.
It's under threat though,
frankly I've only explained it here cus the cat is already out of the bag.
Sometimes there is reason to gatekeep. When it comes to this endeavour, gatekeeping is not meaning to be exclusive or snooty, it's to keep the damn thing alive.
AdBlocker developers have been battling against Bigtech to keep the onslaught of unskippable popups and banners at bay for some time,
but too many people know the ins and outs now, and as with all good things, it's probably soon to meet its final demise.
...and that's where I've been forced to start considering doing more... advanced... maneuvers.
Truly, I'd rather not have to do it, but they seem to leave no choice.
Obviously I can't tell you any particular ideas of mine, due to the aforemention reason, and (well) that could potentially be incriminating if I were forced to do something rash.
Hopefully you can find your own means of getting through the exodus as well.
To put it simply,
I will listen to music ad-free, FOR FREE.
While still supporting the Artist.
That's the way it will be, regardless of what they think.
They don't deserve to be payed for what they themselves ruined. I get they have to run a service, keep the lights on and whatnot, and what YouTube in particular provides is actually great!
... but it's just a small minority who use these blockers, and there are surely other ways to go about turning a profit.
What they're doing seems to simply be greed, malicious.
Please do not fund these people for ruining their own service.
They remove my music? - I remove them from my life.
Honestly it'd be a blessing.
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