Like you're on a new device or borrowing a computer, and you open a webpage - and literally every website blankets your screen with ads every-which-way and all kinds of permutations of springing up to try and get you to accidentally click on something. The actual news article or whatever is just an afterthought.
Literally - how the fuck do people use the internet without an adblocker.
I watch a lot of YouTube on my tv, and holy fuck there are so many ads.
And then I watch TV and I realize why boomers are so fucking broken.
get a pi hole. pi 4 is like 40$. its not free, but if you're watching on a bourgoise TV, you can prolly afford.
pihole doesn't block YouTube ads, they're served from the same domain. still good as part of a multi-layered defense though
yes but they're not substantially cheaper and for absolute simplest config (IDK your level of tech savviness) you're gonna wanna have two networking options-wired and whenever they added wifi-I know the 4b's all have it, and 2gb is more than enough.
If you're by any chance using an Android TV or Android-based device, I highly recommend downloading Smart YouTube TV
"Advertising don't really affect me" - people I know. Aka, I'm immune to propaganda. Nonsense
Yeah, my friends are the same. Half the time they don't even realise they're clicking on an ad, and it's not a search ad, it's a remarketing carousel or something.
I'm in marketing and I've got the return on ad spend data right here and it says hacking brains works.
I don't even know how physically people browse. Like, pop-ups from all edges of the screen, autoplay videos flying through, sidebars and top menus that jump in and out while scrolling. There's only a tiny hole in the middle of the ads to read the words, but even then everything jumps around on the page.
I remember binging Noam Chomsky interviews a long time ago, and when he was asked about the new challenges facing the internet or something similar, Chomsky complained about how news sites slow down his computer so much with advertising. I thought it was funny because the interviewer was obviously wanting some deep observation about new media and Chomsky just vented about how trash the experience is now.
Shockingly, if you use it on Android, it's ridiculously easy, at least for me.... say I open a stream and "ad 1 of 2" shows up, I drag the stream down to the corner, then swipe it away. Reopen the stream (another ad comes up), put it in the corner, swipe it away. Open stream for the third time, it's the actual stream.
Yeah it's crazy. Some of them will like flash the background from red to blue like 30 times a second, making it literally impossible to read the article.
I uninstalled the youtube app from my iphone so that it would stop automatically switching to it from Brave browser (which has a build in blocking feature) when I loaded a video because I can't stand to watch even 5 seconds of an ad
"or else close the window because the site will break. there is no other option. kneel bitch."
Are there not options to the cookies question? Like most sites don't give a choice and cover more than half of the scree with the notification. Is there a way around it?
I don't care about cookies is an addon that makes it all go away (at least I think it's that one, I have so many I lost count)
It used to be somewhat tolerable but now I can't live without an adblocker.
uBlockOrigin is still the gold standard for desktop adblockers. Though do go into the settings and turn on the anti-anti-adblockers.
For mobile firefox supports add-ons and uBlockOrigin.
For YouTube on mobile - YouTube vanced works.
Gold standard for getting rid of mobile ads is rooting the device, and putting ADaway on there - but a lot of times the phone manufacturers will be assholes and not push security updates and the like if it is.
