Don’t claim your relationship with ads is “actively hostile” if your actions can be described as “skipping” and “muting”.
You should be blocking. I don’t skip or mute anything, ever, because I don’t allow ads into my life.
Give them bad data. Click on ads you’re totally disinterested in, ignore ones you’re interested in. Flip that sometimes. That’s actively hostile.
In that case use this: https://adnauseam.io/
The only ads I still have to skip are podcast sponsor segments. And sometimes YouTube sponsor segments; I have SponsorBlock but that only works on very popular videos.
Firefox + uBlock origin, nextDNS + a shit ton of blocking lists, revanced, metrolist and now i forgot that ads even exist.
con:
I always get traumatised when I use a device that isn’t mine.And for that last little bit https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Watching normal TV is jarring, just because I so rarely view non-pirated content.
Once you’re outside that bubble, the invasiveness is so much worse
Whenever i go to my folks or in-laws, im always blasted by live TV which is absolutely rotten with ads
Same thing when I visit my parents. They effectively have a billboard installed in their home.
Sponsorblock, too. It comes included in ReVanced these days, and even comes with SmartTube, an excellent ad-blocking YT app for android TVs. I am convinced that if I see another ad on YT, I will wither and die. Not today…
very traumatic, like how do you guys live like this?
Honestly I’m going to have to start asking them out aloud; “how do you live like this, and how can I help?”
I’ve done that plenty of times. I’d encourage you to do so too. You’ll be shocked with how many people you thought you knew say something to the effect of, “but I like the things that get advertised to me and I’ve clicked on a bunch of them and bought things from them! Why would I want to block them?”
I’ve even explained the whole thing about companies building flawed profiles on people and how governments and bad actors can use them as a reason to investigate you. This works with people I know and get along with well, but doesn’t seem to make any difference with others.
Barely watching TV or listening to radio and block ads online. I stop watching TV or switch radio off after the second ad segment and start an audiobook or use an ad free subscriber platform.
SponsorBlock for youtube as well to skip ad reads, with unhooked to de-enshittify youtube as well.
Any ads that manage to reach me are added to The List. Any products on The List are to be avoided like the plague.
I mean, that’s something of an empty threat in an era of slop ads. Like, I already don’t drink coke, own a PlayStation, or plan to buy a Ford Superduty Truck. And I sure as fuck don’t plan to support Ken Paxton for Senate.
Doesn’t seem to save me from being blizzarded in solicitations.
HelloFresh would like to know your location.
NordVPN can mask that while you enjoy your meal by Factor.
I’ve been playing WarThunder mobile while waiting for my Factor to finish in my Kohler microwave. Can’t wait to bundle up in my limited edition Snuggie and watch some movies on Disney+ until I’m old enough to use that One Secret Trick the Federal government has been hiding from thousands of people like YOU when signing up for benefits…(Link in Description)
Remember kids, advertising is just the graffiti of the rich.
Exactly, it’s capitalist propaganda. Advertising is indoctrination into a system that requires conspicuous consumption to continue to make rich people richer. Get a pihole, please.
You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
Banksy, Wall and Piece
Teach 👏 your 👏 kids 👏 to 👏 hate 👏 ads 👏
On the occasion that we have to watch something that’s not self-hosted, my toddler will point and go “oh ads!” LOL
Peak childhood if you ask me
