Like so many grammar "rules", this one was caused by one fussy dude who got his panties in a twist about an aspect of language:

This isn't an example of how modern English is going to the dogs. Less has been used this way for well over a thousand years—nearly as long as there's been a written English language. But for more than 200 years almost every usage writer and English teacher has declared such use to be wrong. The received rule seems to have originated with the critic Robert Baker, who expressed it not as a law but as a matter of personal preference. Somewhere along the way—it's not clear how—his preference was generalized and elevated to an absolute, inviolable rule.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/...

This image won’t load for me. I just want to know if it’s Stannis Baratheon. Can someone tell me?

Man I loved my RAZR flip phone.

One might spy on you, the other definitely does.

Without uBlock some sites are downright unusable. I dare you to go to weather.com or any fandom.com site with ad blockers, greasemonkey and NoScript deactivated and try not to lunch your monitor

It's fucking bad for netflix and prime though too. Like every 3 minutes bad. I get free basic netflix with my work phone, so I watch it sometimes. Same with my partners work, they get prime. I'm not sure it's even worth free tbh.

Ads feel pretty uncountable, often

Yeah, Python pip is a nightmare.

Fuck YouTube.

Well it worked, but this was clearly false advertising. There were no feet just disappointment.

The best ones already have no ads, and they do it for free. They run off donations only. You just need to find a way to get invited into them.

I never saw any ads on any torrented linux isos.

Uh, you gotta pay hosting somehow, so most piracy sites rely on ad revenue to exist. It's less overhead, but it ain't completely free.

Back in the day, piracy sites were relatively flooded with ads. Being exposed to many&sketchy ads was part of the cost of 'free' while the official sites had fewer and had higher standards for what advertisers they allowed.

Now piracy sites have a few annoying banners and fake download buttons, but it's mostly just porn. Meanwhile the real sites are plastered to the point where content is crowded out and like 3/4ths of the ads are scams. There's one on YouTube right now about a miracle disease cure claiming to be in the bible and it's been running for over two weeks now; not to mention all the AI slop scams and malware.

It's kind of absurd how shit the web has gotten as it was corporatized and monetized. Even the word "web" hardly applies anymore.

Many have forgotten what was lost, or never knew. Cyberspace was wonderful once.

pirating sites serve no video

There are pirate sites that do video streaming

dont produce any content

Neither youtube does, at least piracy sites have to find a way to rip the vids

no dev team because its a copy paste open source implementation

Which is true only for a few sites and many low quality ones

and you forgot that you need to pay money to host the site server and pay for the domain name

It's easy to forget, but the vast majority of people, especially young people, mean pirate streaming sites when they say piracy.

Even the piracy subreddit seems to be mostly about them after the great Exodus.

They seem to be under the impression that those are somehow safer than torrenting, despite the opposite being true. Though I guess they're right about there being more to learn about torrents and other methods.

It hits me like a slap every time piracy comes up in conversation we'll start to get into it when they ask me what site I use to watch things. I Once answered "jellyfin?" With some confusion before they brought up like hanime or some shit. Illegal streaming sites with mountains of ads are what most people mean when they say "piracy". It's the only piracy that can really access on their iPhone anyway.

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Uhhh. Downloading a full video file is much more resource intensive than watching a video on YouTube. YouTube uses compression, bitrate, etc to limit how much data is sent. Pirating sites can’t do that, they have to send the full file.