Yesterday I sat across a woman on the subway who had to rapidly tap her smartphone’s screen every few minutes to stop loud video ads.
Was tempted to lecture her about the existance of adblockers. (But didn’t, following established subway etiquette…)
She’s apparently never heard of earbuds either
She didn’t watch videos, just scrolling and reading.
Only interrupted by regular autoplay video-ads from hell…Jesus. I don’t think an adblocker would help if she couldn’t manage the fucking volume buttons.
Lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink and all that.
Playing through Persona 3 Reload at the moment. Not come across this gem yet but I have come across this:
ROG ALLY USER DETECTED??
I genuinely said “beep boop” in this scene and she did not appreciate the joke. 😂
I get what they’re doing with the lens flare or whatever, but I feel like illustrating the glasses like that just doesn’t work in a still shot. Looks like he’s wearing a white eye patch or something.
Going for the evil ending, are we?
Want to be cloooooooooose
wtf
Whenever I disable it to access a feature that breaks under it, I remember how cursed these sites have become. Reminds me of just before pop-up blockers were common.
Good time to mention this if you don’t already use it, or if you do use blockers, maybe consider this:
It’s AdBlocker, BUT actually, what it does is “click” on all the ads. Every adclick costs the advertisers, and makes targeting ads meaningless because of all the noise. From your end, nothing has changed, the ads are gone… but from the advertisers end, you’re costing them more money and making their data useless.
That’s… Beautiful.
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It’s not that cut and dry. Yes, it brings the ad industry ever so slightly closer to collapse…
But until then, you’re just helping Google sell ad buys faster and pumping up their metrics
Google has gotten fined for doing exactly this fraudulently multiple times to juice their numbers
Is it reliable? Ad-blocking is a cat and mouse game and to actually have a useable ad-blocker it needs to be well maintained over a long period of time (for example like ublock origin).
Their concept looks nice, but they are researchers and I’m a bit afraid that they just drop that, write a paper about it and that’s it. If there is no constant maintenance this will likely stop blocking YouTube Ads once Google deploys the next changes.
Update: checked the repo and it’s actually a fork of ublock origin, so it should (for now) be pretty similar, but still they would have to keep maintaining that.
It’s been maintained for over 10 years by now so it shouldn’t be going anywhere.
Wow didn’t now that. I’m surprised I never heard of it, but I will definitely give it a try.
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Also when someone you know uses Windows 11.
I have to for work but I make sure to tell everyone it’s only because I have to.
Shit, I’ve done it again.
You’d rather be using arch 😜
Mint. Because I am a basic bitch.
I miss policeman. It was the best blocker addon. Fine-grained easy control.
Brave does well.
For watching video, use a media player (e.g. mpv + yt-dlp). No ads (except what the content creator added to the video itself… in which case, tap the cursor keys to skip, no problem).
Maybe those who don’t block adverts just don’t know. Like an animal born in captivity. Like a fish oblivious to water. We can escape, we can evolve, show them the better life awaiting them. :)
I should replay P4
Isn’t this P3?
Imagine working in IT and having colleagues that don’t use adblockers.
Reminds me of talking to a tech bro excited to give Google more information so his ads are more accurately targeted to him.
If the ads actually targeted me with things I’d actually like, instead of trying to manipulate me, I’d probably care less. But they don’t, because shareholders want larger margins.
True… Except there’s a big problem with that
There’s not many things I would want that I’m not aware of
So would they going to show me 2 ads a day, or would the same 4 things be plastered everywhere each week?
You’re not wrong.
I would also add to that list “things I didn’t know I wanted”, but that is hard to objectively differentiate from manipulation.
For real. No one else in my life uses Adblocker, so when I visit, I’m reminded of how horrible ads have gotten.
I don’t like the term “NPC”, but like… the adridden experience they just endure without just googling “how to stop ads” makes me really wanna call them “NPCs”
Any term we pick is going to be offensive. We’re gesturing at the concept of them being less human than us
But like… It’s kind of true. It’s like they don’t experience the world around them, they just adapt to it without comment like a Sim
They just seem like they’re missing the spark. NPC is probably a kinder term than what we’d come up with otherwise
My work PC does not have adblock, and I’m always a little culture shocked whenever I am forced to use Edge for something.
Some people don’t mind resuming their viewing. Younger generations seem to genuinely not care.
a lot of judgement here from someone that doesn’t know what a hamburger is
Yep, its disgusting, major red flag, but shockingly common.
Apparently my standards are too high.
