I use a VPN so places where I can’t block ads, like podcasts on my phone, at least I only get nonsensical swedish-language ads.
Yeah dns blocker will give out you in a different world. Apps don’t have intrusive ads anymore
I set up firefox and ublock for my inlaws, but they only use edge.
They like to read some rag newspaper website and the difference is STAGGERING, the ads it has everywhere, I can’t describe it. They always use edge, on purpose. Deliberately.
My mom is the same, she uses Firefox but I was hesitant to add ublock because if it break something she would have no idea on how to fix it. So I installed Librewolf and changed so it remembers login to make it simpler for her, she never uses it. I think she is so used to the ads that she believes something is wrong when the ads are no longer there.
And then they blame the IT department for their slow computer, or request a new one. Or put one in the fridge to cool it off—I’m not kidding.
I love humans in their creative endeavours, but once they start taking life/work too seriously, or the opposite, have no moral backbone, then god I hate their dung-brained behaviour.
my work laptop didn’t come with an adblocker for some reason unfathomable to me. the first time I realized there were ads on, like, everything was certainly humbling.
On the other hand, we should be thankful for the masses. If most people used adblockers that shit would get choke slammed off the Internet so hard our heads would spin. It’s only because like 10% people use it that it stays under the radar.
I install uBlock origin for them when they aren’t looking.
I install it when they are, and explain why, and how to temporarily turn it off if it breaks a website. Spreading the idea plus uBlock Origin is way more impactful than just uBlock Origin.
Don’t. When their computer breaks it’ll be your fault and they will never stop calling you.
Just do good in the shadows. That’s my motto.
When their computer breaks it’ll be your fault
Nah. It never is. I see it as yet another opportunity to dunk on Windoze.
Superhero origin story.
I once caught a reddit ban for sharing NSFW content even though the youtube video had none. I had to ask why and it turned out there was porn in the ads and apparently that was my fault.
Wow, that’s… kind of impressively sophisticated for the system to pick up on that.
But wait, aren’t the ads account-tailored?
Sure, If male = true, show porn ad.
I’m surprised people are capable of tolerating the shit it’s fucking awful
For decades, if I happen to hear ads playing on radio or something, i literally stick my fingers in my ears and go LALALALA until it stops or I have left.
You’re not selling me SHIT today, I will never be part of your brainwashing scheme.
I am willing to die on that hill so help me god.
I feel like it’s turning into a genuine schism in our society. The “it’s fine, I just deal with it”s and the “I swear to fucking god I’ll burn it all down before I see/hear a single goddamn ad”s.
The Time Machine needs to be remade with this in mind.
I listen to or see and enjoy the adverts, then I don’t buy their products. They spent that money advertising at me, and get nothing.
Do you know how many car adverts I’ve seen on TV in my life? Hundreds.
I can’t even drive.
“Sticking it to the man”
The reason why ads are such a big business is because they work on everyone, even those who say they’ll go out of their way to not use the brand they saw ads for.
I just switch it off. If its not my device my interest in what ever was on immediately shuts down and I go do something else.
Like a comedy show is on the TV at a relatives house and I walk by, its entertaining and I sit down to watch with them. Oh adverts, off I go then.
I take the remote and mute the ad for its duration.
Using a phone with no ad block is astonishing. You get taken to sites where ads, cookie consent forms, and other junk all compete to the point that there’s no site left to look at. It’s the days of pop up windows all over again.
Firefox for phones supports adblock btw.
ive been solely using that. ironfox with ddg is kinda janky with the browser, so i had to use FF.
For Android. FF Focus for iOS can do some ad blocking, but standard is still limited being WebKit.
I get the flack Brave gets, and I wouldn’t touch it on desktop, but I’ve struggled to find a better option on iPhone.
I know, it’s the only way I can use my phone these days.
I use uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and Consent-o-Matic with the Firefox browser on my phone.
This is me and my wife. She showed me a video on her phone the other day and it started with two ads. I didn’t really comprehend that they were ads and asked her why I was watching some weird Dominos meme. 🤷
good spouses don’t let their SO suffer ADs
I downloaded audio files and VLC to make a playlist so my partner doesn’t have to listen to ads when out for a run.
Same experience when I try to watch TV with commercials after 20 years of cable. Can’t even get through a sitcom. Hard to believe I grew up with that shit drilling into my brain every 5 minutes.
I once had an ad break so long I plain forgot what I was watching.
If I ever get hit with a break longer than 2:30 I just nope out.
If I’m hit with a break >0 I’m out.
It wasn’t every 5 minutes back in the day. Ad time slowly ate into show time over the years.
True, when I was a kid the ads were about 7 minutes apart.
Seriously? What kind of virus infested bullshit are your idiot friends using? I have never gotten a single pop up from any reputable website. Aside from being a moron who clicks obviously fake links giving themselves viruses, the only time you’ll get pop ups is if you’re using an illegal site.
So I have to wonder what kind of shady shit you’re doing that you need an ad blocker for every single website you use?
bro has never looked anything up ever
I look up shit all the time. There is a clear distinction between what is an advertisement, and what is a search result.
I would estimate 95% of internet users use no adblock, no tracker blocks, no VPN.
95% of the global population rawdog the Internet for real.
I imagine that if you walk around barefoot enough then the random weeds stop consciously bothering you
I don’t mind rough ground under my bare feet, what gets me is floor grit.
Yes, on hardwood or tile, ugh.
That’s why I use indoor gravel floors.
But what about the broken glass, lego bricks, jellyfish, brightly colored posionous creatures, and literal feces?
When the average internet user encounters those they die.
The brightly coloured poisonous creatures aren’t the problem, it’s the dull brown ones…
This is what its like when I turn on the TV at someones house or at a hotel or something. I encounter TV ads so rarely (only commercial free streaming / downloaded content in our house) that its fucking jarring as hell to be watching something and then suddenly there are commercials.
