• @LittleBorat3
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    713 months ago

    It’s so funny when people don’t have any blockers and the same websites you visit just look like online casinos.

    • @thehatfox
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      343 months ago

      I honestly don’t know how they do it. Whenever I get handed someone else’s device without an adblocker I find it almost painful to try and use.

        • @LittleBorat3
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          73 months ago

          Don’t tell them anything either because they will say “I like ads wtf!” or some nonsense like that

          • @[email protected]
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            03 months ago

            “Oh you know sometimes ads can be fun”

            Yeah when you’re watching the super bowl. When you’re at the library looking through books not so much.

    • @aeronmelon
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      153 months ago

      Like a late-stage GeoCities website when the server-side Javascript injection had gotten completely out of hand.

    • @[email protected]
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      03 months ago

      My desktop browser is good but I haven’t figured out how to get ad blocking on my phone browser.

      • @LittleBorat3
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        13 months ago

        Something that allows plug-ins will do the trick. Firefox on Android feels less light weight etc but it’s worth it because of ublock

  • Cruxifux
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    403 months ago

    Nothing makes me happier than going to read an article and clicking “no” on the “please disable your ad blocker to support us” pop up.

    • @[email protected]
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      223 months ago

      I often see “continue without supporting us” or “continue without helping us”

      One of my favorites “just continue, my boss wanted an anti adblocker but we both know you won’t disable it given the choice”

    • @[email protected]
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      113 months ago

      I’m seeing more sites now not even providing the option to click “no”. I can’t remember the company that provided this library but I feel like any hackers (ahem you assholes who are hacking the IA) want to do some good, they need to be taken down a peg.

      It seems to be the same company. If I find it I’ll update this comment.

      • Cruxifux
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        33 months ago

        If they don’t give me the option I won’t read it.

  • @jaybone
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    373 months ago

    And then try using a VPN and you’re like some kind of criminal and you have to identify 37 crosswalks and busses. And that shit’s all broken anyway so you have to do it again when their integration with whatever captcha service is fucking up.

      • @IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION
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        43 months ago

        I had to stop using google search altogether because every single time it would give me an unsolvable capcha. duckduckgo sucks donkey dong but at least it doesn’t make me do that

  • nifty
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    173 months ago

    Advertisers should pay people to watch ads, why do they expect attention for free?

    • @rockstarmode
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      53 months ago

      They pay the business who owns the ad space, who in turns pays the website or app for their space. You pay for the app or website content by watching the ad.

      It’s a terrible model, but you are being paid (in content) for watching ads.

      • nifty
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        03 months ago

        Yuck no, I pay for the content not the ads. That implicit arrangement is false advertising then

    • Possibly linux
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      23 months ago

      I’m pretty sure advertisers a scared of paid ad free subscriptions

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    • @Eheran
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      63 months ago

      Uuughhh I felt like on one of “these” websites.

  • @illumrial
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    133 months ago

    Praise be to the glorious adblockers this day and all days. Amen