This is laughable

you mean OpenAI Atlas?

You can absolutely, most definitely always say "no". Their carrot (money) comes and goes, and their stick (also money) is not enough to be concerning.

I don't need to justify jack

To remove advertised features the customer has already paid for is excellent basis for a class action.

Do not trust people who speak in SEO

I appreciate the effort, however that list of payloads is a great way to get your IP address banned by Akamai and others. There are better ways to discover injection points without poking trigger-happy WAFs.

I don't think OP is suggesting that the payload list is the interesting thing here, rather the overall approach

> This guy was a prime example of being a "hacker".

Huge stretch

The website will complain about the user having adblockers enabled. It will passive-aggressively ask the user to disable the extension or, in tiny grey-on-white text, allow them to "continue without supporting us"

Seems like a bad adblocker, uBo works as expected

Piracy is alive and well, has been since the late 90s and early 00s. Never seen an ad in my life.

I recently gave up on youtube because of the ads. I do follow google podcasts and the ads there are so inoffensive I really don't mind them. But I, too, have returned to piracy.