There has been a few times when I showed people my ad-less internet. Their heads exploded! They went, “Oh dear internet fairy, show me your ways of serenity!” and I did. I installed adblockers on their devices. Each and every time they went “Thank the heavens, I’ve never known such comfort in my digital life before!”
AND THEN THEY JUST STOPPED USING THEM AFTER A WHILE???
Edit: Not my Mom though. My Mom looooves the adblocking.
My grandmother clicks on everything, constantly… On her phone I tried setting her up with a DNS based ad blocker and it made it so her freemium games stopped working, the ones that give her 5+ minute ads every 15 minutes…
She refuses to use an adblocker because of it, but gets herself scammed out of money weekly due to these shitty malicious ads.
There has been a few times when I showed people my ad-less internet. Their heads exploded! They went, “Oh dear internet fairy, show me your ways of serenity!” and I did. I installed adblockers on their devices. Each and every time they went “Thank the heavens, I’ve never known such comfort in my digital life before!”
AND THEN THEY JUST STOPPED USING THEM AFTER A WHILE???
Edit: Not my Mom though. My Mom looooves the adblocking.
My grandmother clicks on everything, constantly… On her phone I tried setting her up with a DNS based ad blocker and it made it so her freemium games stopped working, the ones that give her 5+ minute ads every 15 minutes…
She refuses to use an adblocker because of it, but gets herself scammed out of money weekly due to these shitty malicious ads.
I recently had an opportunity where I could have put a 79 year old lady on the internet.
Then I remembered that she once told me how she was waiting for money from like publisher’s clearing house or something.
Then I remembered that bulk of the internet, as a whole, is kinda shit…