AdBlock and Signal are for TERRORISTS - French government has gone too far 🤦
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I am an ad-block user a terrorist?!? France just declared people who use ad-blockers terrorists.

Anyone else here a terrorist? 🤣 I’m part of the uBlock Origin faction, what faction(s) do you belong to?

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For legal purposes, no we are not terrorists. I mean unless you have a twisted worldview as a french bureaucrat.

  • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.netEnglish
    55·
    1 year ago

    Many ads are malicious. Many try to install software you didn’t ask for on your computer, or they try to trick you into pressing a “download” button on a download site that isn’t for the thing you wanted but for their software, or they fake error messages to trick you into installing malicious software.

    Back when I was younger, all those sort of activities would fall under the banner of “cyber-terrorism”. Therefore, installing an ad blocker is an act of counter-terrorism.

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    The uBlock Origin Faction? They’re over there… this is the People’s Front of uBlock Origin.

  • mac1202@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    262·
    1 year ago

    Clickbait title. It’s just one case where the cops use the fact that suspects used signal to make the justice think that they could be terrorist.

    • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Damn my grandma is a terrorist: she participates in our family chat on signal 😔😔😔

  • Catsrules@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    Terrorist

    a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

    Not sure how blocking ads fits into that definition. Some of us just don’t want to hear about Raid shadow legends or the latest food delivery scam.

    That said from now on whenever I install uBlock in my head I will hear “bomb has been planted”.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I feel like any company who isn’t making money off of you will gladly call you a terrorist and will urge their government to call you one as well, especially for people who use their sites and use ad blockers, if given the opportunity.

    • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      90% of Terrorists use the internet. Therefore, if you use the internet, you are a terrorist.

      Edit: 100% of terrorists drink beverages containing water, therefore, if you drink water, you are a terrorist.

  • Smex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    A pirate and now a terrorist, the list of cools things I am keeps on growing!

  • SummerIsTooWarm@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Proud uBlock Origin user Terrorist here. But kind of funny that the organization that fits the definition of a terrorist group (according to @Catsrules’s definition in this thread) is pointing fingers and calls others terrorists.

  • Diabolo96@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I already speak Arabic so they’re this much 🤏 close calling me one. One thing am sure about is that am a pirate. Harr harr me hearties !!

  • B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    The hell’s up with France, I also recently saw a post about their president blaming video games for the mass riots that have been happening over there.

      • Mubelotix@jlai.luEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        We are currently organizing the next revolution. There is a lot of debate between citizens about the constitution we should write. I’m on the side of direct democracy without representation. Other french people can contact me if they want to be kept up to date

    • DontEatTheProstitute@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, declining quality of education, systemic racism and increasing difficult economic growth for youth has nothing to do with it /s

    • セリャスト@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The video games thing was apparently a translation mistake, because a friend sent it to me and they had changed video games to social media. I would’ve heard it way more otherwise

      • Grimpen@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think video games were mentioned as well, not as in they were causing the riots, rather that young rioters were behaving like they were in a violent game. So the criticism might be kind of valid? I don’t know if the translation stripped the quote of some subtext, but video games are mainstream enough that I would generally expect most Gen-X and younger to understand me if I said that crossing a street under construction was “like playing Super Mario” that maybe I had to hop across something. If I said something was like CoD, I expect many people to get that as well (of a certain age). The quote I saw was like that, but if the person didn’t know games. So, a little awkward. The rioters were treating it like it was one of their video games. This has a “Hello fellow teenagers” vibe. Do you mean they are out there like it’s Stardew Valley, and it’s the last day of the month and you want to get your crop in? Or do they mean they are out there like it’s Grand Theft Auto, and they can wreak havoc and then just let their heat score drop?