• EpicVision@monero.town
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    uBlock Origin has 36,000,000 users according to Google and ABP has 46,000,000 users. Another 13,000,000 use AdGuard and 67,000,000 use AdBlock (the crappy one, but nonetheless, it blocks YouTube ads).

    Also on Firefox there are 7,780,587 uBO users. Checkmate

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      I use uBlock origin on firefox. All my devices are always connected through a VPN with all the ad and tracker blocks turned on.

      I am a YouTube premium subscriber.

      There are dozens of us… dozens!!!

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      Imagine being me and paying for premium and using ublock + revanced.

      At the end of the day, I think I get 10 dollars in value a month, and I know hosting data isn’t free.

      Edit: Right after I submitted I read the comment before me. Sorry about saying the exact same thing again 😅

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        8 months ago

        Thank you for being this way.

        I think platform greed is awful, but I think consumer greed is something that largely goes unacknowledged.

        Even though I’ve been ‘over’ the genre for more than a decade, I still buy Japanese shmups when they appear on Steam - at one time they could only be found on obscure JP Warez sites, forget legally here. I do it out of a sense of something owed for past joy, and never play the Steam ver.

        I’m also hypocritical to a degree. I can only afford to support so much and I don’t pay for everything, just what I would have paid for anyways. Perhaps there is some self-satisfying logic built in there lol

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        8 months ago

        I wouldn’t ever give Google a single penny. Instead, I pay for Nebula, allowing me to watch high quality videos and documentaries while supporting indie creators. And it’s just $5/month.

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          8 months ago

          Not enough content on Nebula. I subscribed because of a couple YouRubers I follow, but there’s just not much there (at least that I watch).

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            It’s definitely worth it. And it’s better to help independent creators instead of giving money to Google or other shady big tech companies.