Take YouTube for example: Suppose an adblocker redirects all the ads on a video on a different tab on a browser and plays them on mute in background, what’s wrong with that?
Maybe it can also interact with it and close the screen that pops up, automatically.
I have never bought anything ads show. I hate the product in the ad more if it interrupts what I am watching.
If our AIs can watch videos and form summary on it, why can’t we develop a bot just to watch ads?
If you wanna get even more flexible, I am sure an ad contains what it is about in some text. You tell your adblocker what you are interested in, and it will pass the filtered ads to you!
YouTube and other companies are getting aggressive because less number of ads are being interacted with, and we get more agressive in stopping more ads. Maybe we can let our adblocker know that “I am fine with watching 1 ad per video”, so both sides compromise a little while still being in control.
Edit: I am made aware that https://adnauseam.io/ can do this. Thanks.
Just a little reminder that one of the major reasons Reddit got so bad, was the influx of new users thinking the downvote button was a ‘disagree button’ This is a genuine question and shouldn’t be downvoted into oblivion, it should be upvoted so that people can see that it’s wrong