Wondering how much of the Lemmy user base wouldn’t use an adblocker. If you do use one what other blocking do you use to circumvent data collection, YouTube and reddit front ends and things alike?

  • @Ejh3k
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    211 months ago

    I’m simply too lazy.

    • Victor
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      1611 months ago

      Lazy for what exactly? I pressed “install” years ago, and haven’t touched it since. It does its thing in the background when I browse. Never any intervention from me.

      • BraveSirZaphod
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        -411 months ago

        You then have to play a bit of a cat and mouse game with certain sites that put a lot of effort into detecting ad blockers, and that can be a bit actively annoying.

        • Victor
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          411 months ago

          Can you name one such site? In like a decade I’ve not had to touch my settings one bit to avoid ads. 🤔

            • Victor
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              311 months ago

              I have noticed a lot of people using Chrome seem to have issues with YouTube nowadays, indeed. Firefox users (me) seem unaffected (with uBlock).

              • @JGrffn
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                211 months ago

                Not unaffected, I’m on Firefox with ublock on windows and it was pretty bad for a bit there, and now the videos are… Weird. Like they’ll suddenly stop playing and pretend they’re loading, but the buffer bar is far ahead, or the buffer bar will start stuttering and losing buffer multiple times a second, or the video will skip ahead by 5 seconds randomly, or the video will keep playing but in a frozen frame with audio continuing in the background.

                It’s been super frustrating, and piped is slow and the UI is super clunky so I haven’t migrated to it, but the current YouTube experience is just something I’ll have to put up with alongside re-downloading filter lists every now and then. I have been working on a few UI tweaks for piped that hopefully get merged in, but it’s been a rough few weeks IRL and I haven’t gotten around to finishing.

                • Victor
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                  111 months ago

                  Re: Your YouTube issues: are you based in America? I’m in the EU, might be something regarding that.

                  Downloading filter lists? This is something people do? I’ve never done that.

                  • @JGrffn
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                    111 months ago

                    Re: Your YouTube issues: are you based in America? I’m in the EU, might be something regarding that.

                    I hadn’t considered that, considering your regulations are light years ahead… I’m from Honduras.

                    Downloading filter lists? This is something people do? I’ve never done that.

                    Yep, I had never done it before YouTube started its war on adblockers. It’s a 5 second matter, but I do occasionally get blocked entirely for having an adblocker. On some occasions, filter lists hadn’t yet been updated to counter the new blocker, I had to go out and touch grass for a few.

      • @Ejh3k
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        -511 months ago

        Quit gatekeeping.

          • @Ejh3k
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            011 months ago

            Yeah gatekeeping. You all with your adblockers and your cookie biscuits. Always shaming those without. Just keep it to yourself.

            Some of us like ads. I like guessing what the hell Wish is trying to sell me. I don’t watch much YouTubes. Ads really aren’t a thing that I think about a whole lot, so I don’t use adblockers.

            Stop gatekeeping me