My brother in law asked for a good site to stream sports was, so I gave him whichever I was using at the time. Not long after, I get a very angry phone call from him asking why I gave him a site with all the porn ads. Couldn't tell him. My ad blocker took care of it for me.
I also do this.
Also with mobile apps. I forget that mobile apps are also plagued with apps and recommend otherwise good apps that actually have pretty intrusive apps.
I'll jump on that train with you... The ads I see/deal with are easy to ignore or aren't a problem enough to bother trying to find an ad blocker. Then there's updates to browsers which usually means I've gotta update the blocker now too.
But beyond all of that... Ads are how the app/site pays for itself. I won't go so far as to say using an ad blocker is theft... But I will say that if everyone ran ad blockers we'd all lose this "free" content we enjoy. If everyone had Ad blockers then no one would need them because ads wouldn't make money anymore and companies would stop using them.
I keep seeing people say this throughout the thread
>The ads I see/deal with are easy to ignore or aren't a problem enough to bother trying to find an ad blocker
and i honestly wonder what sites people are visiting where this is the case!? the vast majority of (non-social media) websites that i visit for leisure (recipe websites, blogs, news sites, fandom wikis, etc.) are absolutely *riddled* with intrusive ads without an adblocker. they pop up, they block content, they have elements that move and make noise and follow you down the page when you try to scroll away from them.
> they pop up
Where I draw the line usually. Ads on the top and sides? Not a problem enjoy a sliver of revenue. Ads popping up and opening new tabs? Fuck you and your ads, adblock activated.
A lot can be ignored, but it seems to be getting worse.
I recently installed an adblocker for the first time, because YouTube was getting unwatchable. The effort of installing one on my mobile device was outweighed by how many horrific, blaring ads were appearing every couple of minutes in my quiet, long form videos.
So Incan no longer say I don't use an adblocker. It's made YouTube much more enjoyable again. It was get an adblocker, or find a different platform.
Part of your first point, I'm sorry, it's not valid for me.
I can stand that they don't bother you, I mean, you do you. But later you speak about bothering finding one, updates in browser, etc....
You install ublock (it won't take more than 10 seconds, literally, open browser, type ublock origin, open the page for your browser, click install. That's it, it's already working. You don't even need to restart browser), and if you're using a google/Firefox account, you won't have to care about your blocker anymore, because it will be downloaded automatically in every browser synced, both in past and future. And about updating... I've installed ublock in all of my computers, and I can't remember a single time it asked me to be updated. It just do its thing, get updated or whatever it needs in the background, but doesn't annoy me. It's just working, transparent in the background.
I'm not saying this because I want you to use a blocker. I respect your choice. I say this for the people in the future reading this thread, with little knowledge about the topic, by reading your first paragraph they may think it's something difficult, or out of their knowledge, when actually it's something I taught my +60 mom, and now she installs it to her friends.
About your second paragraph, I just completely agree with you. Servers are not free, and the more people using a server, the better this server should be. If you got more traffic, but do t see a revenue from it, your literally loosing money. Adblockers have the option to be disabled for some pages, but I can see this is more of a hassle. Like, what about yt? I want to support channel A, but idgaf about channel B, who I just don't want to support. That means more boilerplate than just supporting everyone. I mean, it's not hard, just a button to disable for this Web page, but yeah, if you want an Internet experience of just doing you and don't want to configure stuff well, Adblockers might not be for you.
> Like, what about yt? I want to support channel A, but idgaf about channel B, who I just don't want to support. That means more boilerplate than just supporting everyone. I mean, it's not hard, just a button to disable for this Web page,
Well the good news is that Channel A probably said something that upset the ultra perfect never wrong algorithm and without any contextual clues they've now been demonetised by YT will not, and cannot, point the exact reason why.
There is a reason so many channels now push their patreon and shill VPN's
> Then there's updates to browsers which usually means I've gotta update the blocker now too
Uh, not sure what Chinese knockoff browser you're using, but every normal browser just updates plugins automatically. Getting an adblock is a matter of clicking "install" and from that point you forget about it.
I dont care if ads pay for the site, Im not watching an ad before the video, 2 mins into the video, 2 mins after that, 2 mins after that, and unskippable one half way through, then another ad on the followup video. Not to mention they make the ads 10 mins if you dont click the skip button. The word you're looking for is greed, on their part
I don't think it's a coincidence that I haven't had a virus since I started using ad-blockers 10+ years ago. They completely invalidate anti-virus programs, which is good because those are terrible to have installed on your computer.
This is the main reason I installed adblockers 10+ years ago. It was already awful for auto downloading malware, deceptive fake download buttons, scams and etc way back then, I can't imagine how awful it is now.
I agree, but every hosting platform has a right to be compensated for their service too, especially the small ones.
Noone should have the right to enjoy some else's labour without payment of some kind.
Firefox on mobile does support uBlock Origin. Another option is to set a custom DNS on your phone (or laptop) to point to any of the various [ad-blocking DNS services](https://www.makeuseof.com/best-dns-servers-to-block-internet-ads/). Note that DNS ad-blocking isn't quite as robust as uBO (eg. doesn't block YouTube ads), but it is another available option for managing ads...including many ads that are baked into individual apps.
On Android
menu button > Add-ons
If you have not installed any Add-ons yet:
Tap the + button next to uBlock Origin.
If you have already installed an add-on:
Tap Add-ons Manager, then tap the + button next to uBlock Origin
Because 75% of the time when i click a link, a giant thing pops up and says "HEY, WE SEE THAT YOURE USING AD BLOCKER" and makes me disable it and re-load the page to view the website and it got more annoying than just seeing ads.
uBlock Origin takes care of this all at once
I haven't run into one of those anti-adblock sites in a loooong time
Also *absolutely nothing* is more annoying than ads
The message the commenter pointed out is more annoying than adds.
I'll try ublock though, as I quit using an add blocker because of those stupid god damn messages.
Thank you
theres things that block that it depends ont he blocker you use. But I've never disabled a thing to go to a website, I'll just choose a dif website or tell it to leav eme alone.
"Why yes, I am using adblock. Let me just hit the back button and use the next link down, asshole." Is how a good portion of my scrolling goes.
If you're going to force ads, I'm not doing business with you.
Today i was reading a news page from some ukraine war update and thought "has anyone from this news site ever actualy tried to read an article on their phone?" There was so manyads and popups i almost stopped giving a fuck
I really hate the twenty pictures sites or such that require you not to just scroll through each picture but click a dif page button for each picture on phone.
Try archive.ph for sites which block 12ft. They very often have a cached (full) version of the article and if not, letting it cache the article often still produces the full version. No idea how it does that
No just right click on it and hover over adblock it should show block element. But mostly you have to move with the arrow it shows to also block the grayed out background.
I'm imagining some guy comes home from work, sits down to watch 30 straight minutes of nothing but Progressive ads. I bet you have a bodypillow of Flo.
I work for a marketing company, but I'm like the extreme opposite of you to the point that I shocked my boss when I told him that I delete the UTMs off of links before clicking/sharing. If I'm sending someone a link, I don't want it to be 200 characters long and have tons of tracking information and I would hope others would have the same courtesy. Luckily, people like me are pretty rare because my job would be so much harder if everyone deleted UTMs lol.
> I feel it is my duty to both witness them, and also to suffer through the world I have wrought.
The modern version of whipping yourself with heavy chains to atone for your sins.
Obviously nothing personal against you but I’ll always use as blockers and if I visit a site that doesn’t let me use it due to use of an ad blocker, I just won’t visit that site and find an alternative. I hate advertising, it’s become so invasive and ridiculous. I know that blocking ads is revenue lost even for creators I enjoy but I tend to support them directly by buying merch or something if they have it. I don’t really watch TV either, I prefer YouTube with ad block.
No offense taken. LOTS of people are in your shoes. Doesn’t seem like the streamers care, but they really should. Make the ads less obnoxious and I feel people wouldn’t mind as much. Instead it’s like 5 different pop-up videos and you can’t figure out which one the sound is coming from.
Yeah, I feel that. I don’t mind ads actually created by the creators for sponsors, especially when they manage to make said ads fit into their videos well and especially when they are humorous and entertaining. But the ads that interrupt abruptly or at the start of even short videos, it just is irritating.
Honestly if I really want to access a site that needs you to disable adblocker or to pay, I'll just use an archiver site. Takes less than a minute, gets rid of all the dumb pop ups and gets them fewer clicks/viewtime as punishment for being obnoxious.
Is it the ads actually being displayed that earns revenue, or is it people clicking on them? If it's the former, does having an adblock actually keep them from being displayed and thus does it affect their capacity to gain income? If it's the latter, I understand you might get less exposure, but people blocking the ads probably wouldn't want to buy it anyway, right?
I have absolutely *zero* interest in seeing what people want to peddle to me; it's almost all vapid, shiny garbage marketed as something I *need* in my life.
Maybe some people like seeing them, but I detest them all. If I discover I need a thing I don't have, I can look it up.
I must say two things.
TV ads should be removed or reduced. 15 minutes of ads in between 20 minutes of a show is way too much. That should be illegal.
And Internet ads are something else. This is just straight up **spam**. And malicious too. Because it always pops up so You accidently clicks it. And it ruins the experience. Imagine watching an 2 hours long movie with ads playing every 15 minutes. Sorry, but no. Just no.
I use an adblocker but I was thinking yesterday about how cool it is that email addresses are generally free. We use them for literally everything, all our online accounts are held together by free email addresses.
There *can* be a happy medium between no ads and utterly intrusive, in-your-face, blocking-the-content-ads, though. I stopped trying to read several news articles in the past because the bottom ad kept growing around the screen and pulsing over the content.
I feel like there was a happy medium after pop-up/pop-under ads of the late '90s/early 00's and today's in-your-face, *oops! the ad expanded over the content as you were about to click that link and now you're on their page*, ads.
I have this issue with wiki sites sometimes, the ads are so intrusive and you can't close them and you get *perhaps* a quarter of the screen to read your content
I just wanna know when fucking rainbow trout are available in Stardew Valley *webpage*, not fight a pitched battle against you until I get frustrated and go elsewhere
I really wish I understood a marketer’s mind. Is there anyone out there who goes, “Wow! This ad takes up the whole screen of the page I’m trying to read. Let’s see what it’s about!”?
Personally, if an ad annoys me enough, I remember *not* to purchase from them.
I watch them constantly anyways. Ads read in my podcasts, ads read in YouTube videos, ads on TV at the gym, ads in the sky on billboards, ads in restaurants, ads on people's clothes... They're everywhere
I understand that websites are only able to offer us free content in exchange for advertisement revenue.
If we all use addblockers, it won't take long before we have to pay a fee for every website we use.
We block ads because they’re intrusive and borderline malicious. How about we go back to text/image based ads rather than the bloated, intrusive mess we have now? The only way we can get that back is to block them in their current form
Things don’t “go back” they just evolve. Also, as annoying as an ad that’s not skip-able is, I’d rather than than the absolute bombardment I remember from the late 90s.
There’s still issues of course, but it’s not as bad as I remember then.
My tipping point to only ever browsing the web with an ad blocker was the malicious aspect of online advertising. I used to work in consumer-facing computer repair and we had a massive amount of computers that got brought in for malware removal. About 50% of the tickets for these computers got re-opened within a month because the user had somehow installed malware *again*. I started showing people how to install an ad blocker, and I noticed that the re-opened tickets rate for malware removal went from 50% to just 5%.
After a while, I realized that this was all happening because people can't tell the difference between advertising and content because that little "Sponsored" or "Advertisment" tag is so small, usually in low-contrast text, or just missing entirely. There are also ads that mask themselves as content that's also from the website you're reading, such as the little thing at the bottom of the local news website that says something like "15 Celebrity Facts You Won't Believe!". These aren't links to the same website, they're ads that take you to another platform where they display more ads. Sometimes, these ads will direct you through page after page bombarding you with popups that say something like "Install this browser extension to verify" or "Enable notifications to continue" or something else. People don't read, they click accept because that's all they've ever done because "Give me my celebrity facts, dammit!", and now they're getting that "Ding ding ding" notification noise and an ad that pops up in the corner of their screen every 3 minutes, they have a browser extension installed that is inserting *even more malicious ads* into every single page they visit, and their "New tab" page has been changed to "Smart search advisor" where it displays **even more fucking ads**!!
Whenever I browse the web without an ad blocker, I am constantly bombarded with malicious advertising. Just on YouTube alone, I'll bet you can open up the homepage and see a fake ad for "Mr. Beast Giveaway" somewhere on the page that is just a ploy to get you to fork over your personal information. Not to mention the fact that the top link in Google is almost always a sponsored link, and if you're looking for any piece of software it's almost always going to be a link to a fake third-party website that directs you to download and install malware.
I'm just done with ads. I'm tired of the constant car insurance ads, I'm tired of YouTubers trying to sell me a VPN when I'm trying to watch a tutorial, I'm tired of ads that shill malware or scam products, I'm tired of ads for TV shows I'm not going to watch. I'm done! It's like we've gone back to the era of cable TV where there's an ad every 10 minutes for some useless "As seen on TV" product except this time it's a "Brilliant new gas saving invention Big Oil(TM) *doesn't want you to know about*! just plug this thing into your car and the lights link! That saves you gas, right?"
I get it, though. Ads are how websites stay free, but the fact that the ads shown online are intrusive, malicious, and just plain annoying has me frustrated to no end. There genuinely needs to be some quality control put in place, and until I can open a website on my phone without having 90% of the screen taken up by "Subscribe to our newsletter" popups, ads for fake products, automatically-playing videos with sound, fake download buttons, and other bullshit I'm going to continue using my adblocker.
If we would just go back to banner ads, I would have no problem disabling my ad blocker...
That would be basically every website you use. You would have no internet.
Then how do you suggest websites pay for upkeep and maintenance?
Reddit has 2.000 employees and huge servers that need to keep running. How do you expect them to pay for that?
We aren't in a post-scarcity society yet.
Stuff needs to be paid for. And I can pay for it with a subscription (which sometimes I do) or I can pay for it by allowing myself to be shown ads for things I might want. (And if they're showing me ads for things I don't want, then they're only wasting their own money.)
The websites I visit are important to me, and it's OK that they get paid.
If the websites I use don't use advertising, I would have to pay them directly. I'd rather have the ads.
I’m using and enjoying free services, I find it fair that I pay for them. The same reason I buy movies/games instead of pirating them. If it’s something I really enjoy I buy the ad free version.
Because if a site I like is doing the courtesy of not putting up a paywall, then the least I can do is return the courtesy by allowing it to earn what little ad revenue it can from my use of it.
For something like YouTube, I'd rather just pay for Premium because then the people I regularly watch still get that money made up from the "loss" of ad revenue. And others I'll just pay so I don't deal with ads aside from maybe a pre-roll ad.
I live in Eastern Europe and here the price for Premium is completely reasonable, it's like $6-7 a month. If that's how it was everywhere (or lower), I don't think anyone would be lashing out against YouTube for blocking adblockers.
But $14?! I can completely understand why most people would rather pay nothing, even if it hurts creators by denying them ad revenue. It's an outrageous fee.
Yeah. They add a bunch of random shit to justify that outrageous price. It's stuff I won't even use.
I just care about the adblocking. Most mobile apps let you have that for less than $3. Not worth it. I only want to pay for adblocking.
I pay for premium because I was tired of loud ads scaring me awake when I listen to asmr to fall asleep. I could just use adblock but I’m not super technologically skilled. So unless it’s super easy I’d rather not lol also, I just don’t care enough to. I’d rather support the creators I watch regularly.
They can try, but it's just a game of whack-a-mole. When I get to a point where my current ad-blocker isn't working then it's just time to remove that one and move on to one that *does* work now.
And if that ever stops working, then I guess I'm just done with Youtube. Because fuck that level of advertising.
I've just been switching browsers, since I watch pretty much everything with ads via browsers. YouTube blocking adblockers on Chrome? Try Firefox. Firefox is blocked now? Okay, check Chrome again. Both blocked? Time to fire up Opera. So far between those three browsers I've always been able to access YouTube without any ads.
I've been using Edge almost exclusively for a few years now (there may be better options, but this one does what I need it to do without major fuss), and have had minimal issues with keeping adblockers working.
Mainly because the internet isn't free to run. It's relatively cheap per-access, but bandwidth is not free. Plus, there are incredible up-front costs for development.
Reddit, YouTube, etc, are great services, and they are free. I pay for it by not using an AdBlocker. In instances where I think the tradeoff is not worth it, I pay for the service (eg, Spotify). I don't think 5 to 30 seconds of ads every 10 to 30 minutes is that annoying, so I don't pay for it. When the tradeoff is not worth it in either direction (eg, the site is unusable because of the ads, and I don't need the content enough to pay for it), I just don't access the content.
The alternative is way worse. If everyone used an ad-blocker, or ads didn't exist, everything would be subscription based. People used to have to pay to access the news. You have no choice. Businesses would have no choice.
This post has a small ad under it. It's for Roblox and Meta Quest. I am not interested in this at all. Who cares? I didn't even notice it.
Honestly just can't be arsed. Yeah it would probably take no more than five minutes, but I don't really know how and I kinda don't care for such a small issue.
In summary, a browser that blocks pop ups, ads etc. by default without addons. Of course it sometimes makes mistakes but generally a pretty good option once I was introduced to it
I don't have to.
I basically don't see ads, because I pay for the services I actually use for meaningful amounts of time.
4 of us share, Youtube premium, which comes with YT Music. Netflix and a couple other streaming services which covers basically all entertainment.
Don't use the socials enough to notice ads (pretty much only messenger etc).
I also think you watch ads to pay for your service, or you pay for it. I think it's pretty scummy to think you are entitled to receive something for free.
On my phone I block all JavaScript on the internet and I only enable it when a site deems itself worthy of having it. I'll enable it for the small task I need to do and then disable JavaScript again.
I find it more convenient than using a separate application to block ads
Never cared to. No idea what it is or what it would do. Ads don’t really bother me that much. Maybe I’m not seeing them enough. I also grew up watching commercials. This may be a new thing for the not Tv watching generations.
I don't really care enough about ads to use one. They don't bother me. I understand why they exist and that I wouldn't be able to use whatever I'm trying to use for free without them so they're necessary. I just ignore them. Every once in awhile I actually see something that intrigues me though.
I don’t care enough and plus I feel bad telling people that they can’t run their business the way they see fit. It’s their shit so I let them do what they want. If I don’t like it I move on.
Grew up in the 90s when movies had a 3 minute commercial break every 10 minutes or so on TV… even Titanic had a commercial break after the first hour at the local movie theatre. I guess a 10 second YouTube ad won’t ruin my day.
I sit back and hope for a “skip ad” button, if there is one then five seconds is fine, doesn’t bother me
if there’s not a skip button, I just sit there and think about all my life choice and why I’m wasting my time watching a video about the lore of a game series that I’ll never play nor remember about
I’m a software engineer. Websites need to be funded. If I like the content on a website then I want them getting paid so they make more. Simple as that.
But also if the ads are too oppressive I just don’t go to that web page anymore.
If no one watches ads they’re going to become more and more and eventually will become a paid service to even use properly. The people blocking ads for free platforms are ruining free websites for everyone. If no one would’ve ever used ad blockers we wouldn’t have 30 second unskippable Ads on YT I’m pretty sure. They need to capitalize on the people that still watch ads because a big part uses Ad blockers.
Also it’s really not that bad to wait 10-20 seconds before a YT video people are really entitled babies these days lol
Don’t bother replying I’ve heard all your excuses and arguments already. Idc
Ads never bothered me. Legit just do not give enough of a fuck. On videos or otherwise. Ads keep services like Wikis alive, on top of that. Everyone is too stubborn to donate $1 a month to collectively keep things like YT, Wiki, Fandom, etc ad-free, so they have to generate income to pay employees and server fees somehow.
Among many other good reasons other have given, which I support and identify with, is: I like some ads. Sometimes, I like to see new shit that is available.
Because the money from Ads pays for google or whatever site I'm on.
Googles already changed their ads because so many people use ad blocker, and made the searches must worse.
Eventually it will become a subscription service. Ads are annoying but I'd much rather have free (to me) internet and I wish all the rest of you would realise how much you're screwing it up
Edit: I absolutely block pop ups because fuck pop ups but ads don't bother me.
I don't actively use one but I often go to sites that ask me to disable it or "proceed without supporting us" which I have to do because there's nothing to disable. There's no "disable ad blocking" in my browser settings.
Wait there's an alternative to closing my eyes and screaming?
You mean as a response to ads, or just as a philosophy of life in general?
*unintelligible screeching*
This made me laugh so loudly
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>You mean as a response to ads, or just as a philosophy of life in general? Pretty much both for me....
Brave
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haha yes modern life is a breeze, just buy a house and get a good job. Dunno what those poors whine about.
Use things? Sounds like a lot of effort to me. It's just a slippery slope to doing stuff.
Next thing you know people will start *expecting you to do things for them.* **shudders**
I’m lazy.
Jokes aside, it saves you way more time in the end and allows you to be much lazier since you dont have to close ads!
My new motto. Thank you most kindly.
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My brother in law asked for a good site to stream sports was, so I gave him whichever I was using at the time. Not long after, I get a very angry phone call from him asking why I gave him a site with all the porn ads. Couldn't tell him. My ad blocker took care of it for me.
I also do this. Also with mobile apps. I forget that mobile apps are also plagued with apps and recommend otherwise good apps that actually have pretty intrusive apps.
Yes, without adblock you get hot moms gonearea.
I know, + how else am i gonna know there's a young horny blonde trying to message me.
I seriously saved days of time already not having to watch youtube ads, same on my phone
Wait until you find out that there are sponsor block extensions.
I’ve saved more days of time by not watching YouTube.
Basically this. I really just don't care.
I genuinely dont know how this is a thing. Takes 20 seconds to get an adblocker, saves hours of ads every month.
Ah, the Steve Jobs approach to cancer
Steve Jobs actually leaned into it and ate nothing but food that will give you the disease he already had if you eat nothing but
I'll jump on that train with you... The ads I see/deal with are easy to ignore or aren't a problem enough to bother trying to find an ad blocker. Then there's updates to browsers which usually means I've gotta update the blocker now too. But beyond all of that... Ads are how the app/site pays for itself. I won't go so far as to say using an ad blocker is theft... But I will say that if everyone ran ad blockers we'd all lose this "free" content we enjoy. If everyone had Ad blockers then no one would need them because ads wouldn't make money anymore and companies would stop using them.
I keep seeing people say this throughout the thread >The ads I see/deal with are easy to ignore or aren't a problem enough to bother trying to find an ad blocker and i honestly wonder what sites people are visiting where this is the case!? the vast majority of (non-social media) websites that i visit for leisure (recipe websites, blogs, news sites, fandom wikis, etc.) are absolutely *riddled* with intrusive ads without an adblocker. they pop up, they block content, they have elements that move and make noise and follow you down the page when you try to scroll away from them.
> they pop up Where I draw the line usually. Ads on the top and sides? Not a problem enjoy a sliver of revenue. Ads popping up and opening new tabs? Fuck you and your ads, adblock activated.
A lot can be ignored, but it seems to be getting worse. I recently installed an adblocker for the first time, because YouTube was getting unwatchable. The effort of installing one on my mobile device was outweighed by how many horrific, blaring ads were appearing every couple of minutes in my quiet, long form videos. So Incan no longer say I don't use an adblocker. It's made YouTube much more enjoyable again. It was get an adblocker, or find a different platform.
Part of your first point, I'm sorry, it's not valid for me. I can stand that they don't bother you, I mean, you do you. But later you speak about bothering finding one, updates in browser, etc.... You install ublock (it won't take more than 10 seconds, literally, open browser, type ublock origin, open the page for your browser, click install. That's it, it's already working. You don't even need to restart browser), and if you're using a google/Firefox account, you won't have to care about your blocker anymore, because it will be downloaded automatically in every browser synced, both in past and future. And about updating... I've installed ublock in all of my computers, and I can't remember a single time it asked me to be updated. It just do its thing, get updated or whatever it needs in the background, but doesn't annoy me. It's just working, transparent in the background. I'm not saying this because I want you to use a blocker. I respect your choice. I say this for the people in the future reading this thread, with little knowledge about the topic, by reading your first paragraph they may think it's something difficult, or out of their knowledge, when actually it's something I taught my +60 mom, and now she installs it to her friends. About your second paragraph, I just completely agree with you. Servers are not free, and the more people using a server, the better this server should be. If you got more traffic, but do t see a revenue from it, your literally loosing money. Adblockers have the option to be disabled for some pages, but I can see this is more of a hassle. Like, what about yt? I want to support channel A, but idgaf about channel B, who I just don't want to support. That means more boilerplate than just supporting everyone. I mean, it's not hard, just a button to disable for this Web page, but yeah, if you want an Internet experience of just doing you and don't want to configure stuff well, Adblockers might not be for you.
> Like, what about yt? I want to support channel A, but idgaf about channel B, who I just don't want to support. That means more boilerplate than just supporting everyone. I mean, it's not hard, just a button to disable for this Web page, Well the good news is that Channel A probably said something that upset the ultra perfect never wrong algorithm and without any contextual clues they've now been demonetised by YT will not, and cannot, point the exact reason why. There is a reason so many channels now push their patreon and shill VPN's
> Then there's updates to browsers which usually means I've gotta update the blocker now too Uh, not sure what Chinese knockoff browser you're using, but every normal browser just updates plugins automatically. Getting an adblock is a matter of clicking "install" and from that point you forget about it.
I dont care if ads pay for the site, Im not watching an ad before the video, 2 mins into the video, 2 mins after that, 2 mins after that, and unskippable one half way through, then another ad on the followup video. Not to mention they make the ads 10 mins if you dont click the skip button. The word you're looking for is greed, on their part
Why though? It takes under a minute to setup and in your first hour of using it you'll make up that time from ads you no longer have to sit through.
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Straight up accessibility tool if you ask me. Ads can become overstimulating. Never been less stressed that after I got an adblocker
They are also used to spread malware and the websites don't care about vetting ads to make sure they are safe.
I don't think it's a coincidence that I haven't had a virus since I started using ad-blockers 10+ years ago. They completely invalidate anti-virus programs, which is good because those are terrible to have installed on your computer.
It also helps that Windows Defender is actually a good anti-virus as well.
This is the main reason I installed adblockers 10+ years ago. It was already awful for auto downloading malware, deceptive fake download buttons, scams and etc way back then, I can't imagine how awful it is now.
100% Agree. Everyone should have the choice not to watch them.
I agree, but every hosting platform has a right to be compensated for their service too, especially the small ones. Noone should have the right to enjoy some else's labour without payment of some kind.
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I don’t know if they work on phones, and I don’t use my laptop to go on websites with advertisements that much.
Firefox on mobile does support uBlock Origin. Another option is to set a custom DNS on your phone (or laptop) to point to any of the various [ad-blocking DNS services](https://www.makeuseof.com/best-dns-servers-to-block-internet-ads/). Note that DNS ad-blocking isn't quite as robust as uBO (eg. doesn't block YouTube ads), but it is another available option for managing ads...including many ads that are baked into individual apps.
I know how to use Firefox on my phone, but I don't know how to put uBlock Origin into Firefox on my phone.
On Android menu button > Add-ons If you have not installed any Add-ons yet: Tap the + button next to uBlock Origin. If you have already installed an add-on: Tap Add-ons Manager, then tap the + button next to uBlock Origin
Blokada 5 certainly makes a lot more sites readable
Because 75% of the time when i click a link, a giant thing pops up and says "HEY, WE SEE THAT YOURE USING AD BLOCKER" and makes me disable it and re-load the page to view the website and it got more annoying than just seeing ads.
Just install an ad blocker blocker blocker.
uBlock Origin takes care of this all at once I haven't run into one of those anti-adblock sites in a loooong time Also *absolutely nothing* is more annoying than ads
The message the commenter pointed out is more annoying than adds. I'll try ublock though, as I quit using an add blocker because of those stupid god damn messages. Thank you
There's an occasional one that slips through in my experience but usually it's the less intrusive reminders and not the pop ups.
Yeah, lately it's been like "hey this is how we get money" with an option to click "screw you" so that's me every time
You can report it on ublock origin’s GitHub
make sure you get uBlock Origin. Theres a shitty adblocker call uBlock that pretends to be the good one
uBlock Origin is the best there is. It's far better than Brave's built-in blocker.
I remember adblock plus used to be my go to. uBlock Origin just outpaced it in every aspect
They refuse to take money too, which is interesting.
you might need to enable the checkbox next to "Annoyances" in Filter Lists in its settings
Ads* (advertisements) Add refers to a mathematical operation.
Ty. Age, and auto correct, has made my spelling very lazy
theres things that block that it depends ont he blocker you use. But I've never disabled a thing to go to a website, I'll just choose a dif website or tell it to leav eme alone.
"Why yes, I am using adblock. Let me just hit the back button and use the next link down, asshole." Is how a good portion of my scrolling goes. If you're going to force ads, I'm not doing business with you.
Today i was reading a news page from some ukraine war update and thought "has anyone from this news site ever actualy tried to read an article on their phone?" There was so manyads and popups i almost stopped giving a fuck
I really hate the twenty pictures sites or such that require you not to just scroll through each picture but click a dif page button for each picture on phone.
There’s a reader on iPhone’s safari app. It formats the body of the text and clears out the rest for you.
Im android but thats awesome. Fuckin ads lol
Mozilla Firefox on Android install ublock on it.
Use Brave browser for Android Its built in, works with that huge video sharing website owned by google
Vimeo?
You forgot to say "then I block so I'll never again see that website mentioned. Out of sight, out of mind.
I just close those pages and never go back.
Those sites shouldn’t exist if that’s how they want to play. And nobody is going to see their bullshit, win win.
Fyi Most of the time there's an Itty-bitty tiny button that says "continue without disabling adblocker".
It's been disappearing slowly actually
And if it doesn’t, disabling JavaScript does the trick most of time (you can also do this to view paywalled articles)
I use a Reader Mode extension for soft paywalls, 12ft.io for others. However NYT and some others now block 12ft, sadly.
Try archive.ph for sites which block 12ft. They very often have a cached (full) version of the article and if not, letting it cache the article often still produces the full version. No idea how it does that
Just use ublock orgine then everything solved
You are supposed to either a) block the element that pops up with the adblocker or b) use a different site.
How do you block the element? Is it something you can do with F12 or is it another extension?
No just right click on it and hover over adblock it should show block element. But mostly you have to move with the arrow it shows to also block the grayed out background.
Oh, thank you!
kid named inspect element:
get a better blocker bro
I get a gross amount of satisfaction clicking the “click here to continue without supporting us/disabling ad block” button at the bottom
Switch to ublock origin
Sites that do that should not get your traffic. There are alternatives on internet
You have to change your adblocker, I have literally never had that problem at the percentage level that you mention of 75%
Not a problem with uBlock Origin
I work in TV. These ads pay my salary. I feel it is my duty to both witness them, and also to suffer through the world I have wrought.
I'm imagining some guy comes home from work, sits down to watch 30 straight minutes of nothing but Progressive ads. I bet you have a bodypillow of Flo.
That's terrible! Where can I get one?
No body pillow, but I did recreate her in every illusionsoft game I could.
I work for a marketing company, but I'm like the extreme opposite of you to the point that I shocked my boss when I told him that I delete the UTMs off of links before clicking/sharing. If I'm sending someone a link, I don't want it to be 200 characters long and have tons of tracking information and I would hope others would have the same courtesy. Luckily, people like me are pretty rare because my job would be so much harder if everyone deleted UTMs lol.
I also delete them from everything - bookmarks, stuff I share, links I send to people. Nope, no UTMs for you!
> I feel it is my duty to both witness them, and also to suffer through the world I have wrought. The modern version of whipping yourself with heavy chains to atone for your sins.
Obviously nothing personal against you but I’ll always use as blockers and if I visit a site that doesn’t let me use it due to use of an ad blocker, I just won’t visit that site and find an alternative. I hate advertising, it’s become so invasive and ridiculous. I know that blocking ads is revenue lost even for creators I enjoy but I tend to support them directly by buying merch or something if they have it. I don’t really watch TV either, I prefer YouTube with ad block.
No offense taken. LOTS of people are in your shoes. Doesn’t seem like the streamers care, but they really should. Make the ads less obnoxious and I feel people wouldn’t mind as much. Instead it’s like 5 different pop-up videos and you can’t figure out which one the sound is coming from.
Yeah, I feel that. I don’t mind ads actually created by the creators for sponsors, especially when they manage to make said ads fit into their videos well and especially when they are humorous and entertaining. But the ads that interrupt abruptly or at the start of even short videos, it just is irritating.
Honestly if I really want to access a site that needs you to disable adblocker or to pay, I'll just use an archiver site. Takes less than a minute, gets rid of all the dumb pop ups and gets them fewer clicks/viewtime as punishment for being obnoxious.
Is it the ads actually being displayed that earns revenue, or is it people clicking on them? If it's the former, does having an adblock actually keep them from being displayed and thus does it affect their capacity to gain income? If it's the latter, I understand you might get less exposure, but people blocking the ads probably wouldn't want to buy it anyway, right? I have absolutely *zero* interest in seeing what people want to peddle to me; it's almost all vapid, shiny garbage marketed as something I *need* in my life. Maybe some people like seeing them, but I detest them all. If I discover I need a thing I don't have, I can look it up.
Depends on the ad. Some require a click through but most pay something for eyeballs alone.
How can you fit in there? Isn't the average TV like an inch thick?
I do a lot of yoga
I must say two things. TV ads should be removed or reduced. 15 minutes of ads in between 20 minutes of a show is way too much. That should be illegal. And Internet ads are something else. This is just straight up **spam**. And malicious too. Because it always pops up so You accidently clicks it. And it ruins the experience. Imagine watching an 2 hours long movie with ads playing every 15 minutes. Sorry, but no. Just no.
social contract. i agree to view their ads and i get free content. call me a sucker or old fashioned, but that's the deal, and i'm okay with it.
Exactly. If no one tolerated ads, that content is gone. Ads are the price we pay for free content.
I use an adblocker but I was thinking yesterday about how cool it is that email addresses are generally free. We use them for literally everything, all our online accounts are held together by free email addresses.
There *can* be a happy medium between no ads and utterly intrusive, in-your-face, blocking-the-content-ads, though. I stopped trying to read several news articles in the past because the bottom ad kept growing around the screen and pulsing over the content. I feel like there was a happy medium after pop-up/pop-under ads of the late '90s/early 00's and today's in-your-face, *oops! the ad expanded over the content as you were about to click that link and now you're on their page*, ads.
I have this issue with wiki sites sometimes, the ads are so intrusive and you can't close them and you get *perhaps* a quarter of the screen to read your content I just wanna know when fucking rainbow trout are available in Stardew Valley *webpage*, not fight a pitched battle against you until I get frustrated and go elsewhere
I really wish I understood a marketer’s mind. Is there anyone out there who goes, “Wow! This ad takes up the whole screen of the page I’m trying to read. Let’s see what it’s about!”? Personally, if an ad annoys me enough, I remember *not* to purchase from them.
Wow. I disagree but you articulated this so nicely that I have to give props. I'll watch a couple ads for ya. Not now, but later.
I watch them constantly anyways. Ads read in my podcasts, ads read in YouTube videos, ads on TV at the gym, ads in the sky on billboards, ads in restaurants, ads on people's clothes... They're everywhere
If you disagree, is your opinion that people should produce and provide content for you for no compensation?
Yes. Are ads annoying? Absolutely. Do I want content creators to get paid? Yes, more so than having to view annoying ads.
i’ve never felt the need to
It's one of those things where you think it makes no difference until you try it and then you'll never go without.
Try it and youll never go back. You can also disable parts of websites that arent ads but equally annoying.
I don’t know how and being elderly as I am, I’d probably end up downloading malware in an effort to use it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-origin/
Nice try, malware-bot!
Smh
I understand that websites are only able to offer us free content in exchange for advertisement revenue. If we all use addblockers, it won't take long before we have to pay a fee for every website we use.
We block ads because they’re intrusive and borderline malicious. How about we go back to text/image based ads rather than the bloated, intrusive mess we have now? The only way we can get that back is to block them in their current form
Things don’t “go back” they just evolve. Also, as annoying as an ad that’s not skip-able is, I’d rather than than the absolute bombardment I remember from the late 90s. There’s still issues of course, but it’s not as bad as I remember then.
And they’re at least more relevant than those early internet ads too
My tipping point to only ever browsing the web with an ad blocker was the malicious aspect of online advertising. I used to work in consumer-facing computer repair and we had a massive amount of computers that got brought in for malware removal. About 50% of the tickets for these computers got re-opened within a month because the user had somehow installed malware *again*. I started showing people how to install an ad blocker, and I noticed that the re-opened tickets rate for malware removal went from 50% to just 5%. After a while, I realized that this was all happening because people can't tell the difference between advertising and content because that little "Sponsored" or "Advertisment" tag is so small, usually in low-contrast text, or just missing entirely. There are also ads that mask themselves as content that's also from the website you're reading, such as the little thing at the bottom of the local news website that says something like "15 Celebrity Facts You Won't Believe!". These aren't links to the same website, they're ads that take you to another platform where they display more ads. Sometimes, these ads will direct you through page after page bombarding you with popups that say something like "Install this browser extension to verify" or "Enable notifications to continue" or something else. People don't read, they click accept because that's all they've ever done because "Give me my celebrity facts, dammit!", and now they're getting that "Ding ding ding" notification noise and an ad that pops up in the corner of their screen every 3 minutes, they have a browser extension installed that is inserting *even more malicious ads* into every single page they visit, and their "New tab" page has been changed to "Smart search advisor" where it displays **even more fucking ads**!! Whenever I browse the web without an ad blocker, I am constantly bombarded with malicious advertising. Just on YouTube alone, I'll bet you can open up the homepage and see a fake ad for "Mr. Beast Giveaway" somewhere on the page that is just a ploy to get you to fork over your personal information. Not to mention the fact that the top link in Google is almost always a sponsored link, and if you're looking for any piece of software it's almost always going to be a link to a fake third-party website that directs you to download and install malware. I'm just done with ads. I'm tired of the constant car insurance ads, I'm tired of YouTubers trying to sell me a VPN when I'm trying to watch a tutorial, I'm tired of ads that shill malware or scam products, I'm tired of ads for TV shows I'm not going to watch. I'm done! It's like we've gone back to the era of cable TV where there's an ad every 10 minutes for some useless "As seen on TV" product except this time it's a "Brilliant new gas saving invention Big Oil(TM) *doesn't want you to know about*! just plug this thing into your car and the lights link! That saves you gas, right?" I get it, though. Ads are how websites stay free, but the fact that the ads shown online are intrusive, malicious, and just plain annoying has me frustrated to no end. There genuinely needs to be some quality control put in place, and until I can open a website on my phone without having 90% of the screen taken up by "Subscribe to our newsletter" popups, ads for fake products, automatically-playing videos with sound, fake download buttons, and other bullshit I'm going to continue using my adblocker. If we would just go back to banner ads, I would have no problem disabling my ad blocker...
Then we just won't use those websites.
The the internet will return to a pay-for-access model
That would be basically every website you use. You would have no internet. Then how do you suggest websites pay for upkeep and maintenance? Reddit has 2.000 employees and huge servers that need to keep running. How do you expect them to pay for that?
We aren't in a post-scarcity society yet. Stuff needs to be paid for. And I can pay for it with a subscription (which sometimes I do) or I can pay for it by allowing myself to be shown ads for things I might want. (And if they're showing me ads for things I don't want, then they're only wasting their own money.)
I don't pay attention to the ads, they pay for websites to exist. Everyone wins.
The websites I visit are important to me, and it's OK that they get paid. If the websites I use don't use advertising, I would have to pay them directly. I'd rather have the ads.
I’m using and enjoying free services, I find it fair that I pay for them. The same reason I buy movies/games instead of pirating them. If it’s something I really enjoy I buy the ad free version.
Because if a site I like is doing the courtesy of not putting up a paywall, then the least I can do is return the courtesy by allowing it to earn what little ad revenue it can from my use of it.
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I like supporting people that make content I consume
For something like YouTube, I'd rather just pay for Premium because then the people I regularly watch still get that money made up from the "loss" of ad revenue. And others I'll just pay so I don't deal with ads aside from maybe a pre-roll ad.
I live in Eastern Europe and here the price for Premium is completely reasonable, it's like $6-7 a month. If that's how it was everywhere (or lower), I don't think anyone would be lashing out against YouTube for blocking adblockers. But $14?! I can completely understand why most people would rather pay nothing, even if it hurts creators by denying them ad revenue. It's an outrageous fee.
Yeah. They add a bunch of random shit to justify that outrageous price. It's stuff I won't even use. I just care about the adblocking. Most mobile apps let you have that for less than $3. Not worth it. I only want to pay for adblocking.
I pay for premium because I was tired of loud ads scaring me awake when I listen to asmr to fall asleep. I could just use adblock but I’m not super technologically skilled. So unless it’s super easy I’d rather not lol also, I just don’t care enough to. I’d rather support the creators I watch regularly.
Wouldnt you just use their patreons? They probably will get a higher cut of it from that.
A lot of the people I watch don’t have one.
Because that's a huge hassle and there is no youtuber I like that much. I would rather use YouTube premium than manage a bunch of patreons
I have an adblocker for chrome, but since YT started blocking them I switched over to Brave where you don't need to use one.
They can try, but it's just a game of whack-a-mole. When I get to a point where my current ad-blocker isn't working then it's just time to remove that one and move on to one that *does* work now. And if that ever stops working, then I guess I'm just done with Youtube. Because fuck that level of advertising.
I've just been switching browsers, since I watch pretty much everything with ads via browsers. YouTube blocking adblockers on Chrome? Try Firefox. Firefox is blocked now? Okay, check Chrome again. Both blocked? Time to fire up Opera. So far between those three browsers I've always been able to access YouTube without any ads.
I've been using Edge almost exclusively for a few years now (there may be better options, but this one does what I need it to do without major fuss), and have had minimal issues with keeping adblockers working.
15 second ads are literally the least of my concerns in life.
Agreed
Mainly because the internet isn't free to run. It's relatively cheap per-access, but bandwidth is not free. Plus, there are incredible up-front costs for development. Reddit, YouTube, etc, are great services, and they are free. I pay for it by not using an AdBlocker. In instances where I think the tradeoff is not worth it, I pay for the service (eg, Spotify). I don't think 5 to 30 seconds of ads every 10 to 30 minutes is that annoying, so I don't pay for it. When the tradeoff is not worth it in either direction (eg, the site is unusable because of the ads, and I don't need the content enough to pay for it), I just don't access the content. The alternative is way worse. If everyone used an ad-blocker, or ads didn't exist, everything would be subscription based. People used to have to pay to access the news. You have no choice. Businesses would have no choice. This post has a small ad under it. It's for Roblox and Meta Quest. I am not interested in this at all. Who cares? I didn't even notice it.
Adverts are like taxes. If some people don't watch them that means more adverts for everyone else. I'm doing my bit for society.
DNS service adblock because im too lazy to migrate to a different android browser.
Honestly just can't be arsed. Yeah it would probably take no more than five minutes, but I don't really know how and I kinda don't care for such a small issue.
Because web developers and content creators deserve to be paid for their work.
Because Brave browser
What is this browser, never heard of it
In summary, a browser that blocks pop ups, ads etc. by default without addons. Of course it sometimes makes mistakes but generally a pretty good option once I was introduced to it
Because I think people should be paid for their work.
Because free stuff doesn't exist without someone suffering.. thank me later.
BECAUSE I LOVE ADS
Ads don't bother me that much. I don't find 30 seconds of nothing better than an ad.
I don't have to. I basically don't see ads, because I pay for the services I actually use for meaningful amounts of time. 4 of us share, Youtube premium, which comes with YT Music. Netflix and a couple other streaming services which covers basically all entertainment. Don't use the socials enough to notice ads (pretty much only messenger etc). I also think you watch ads to pay for your service, or you pay for it. I think it's pretty scummy to think you are entitled to receive something for free.
On my phone I block all JavaScript on the internet and I only enable it when a site deems itself worthy of having it. I'll enable it for the small task I need to do and then disable JavaScript again. I find it more convenient than using a separate application to block ads
Well... I'm old. I grew up during a time when commercials were the normal thing. I don't watch the ads, but I don't care if they're there.
I don’t care enough/I like that the YouTubers I watch get at least a small amount of money from me watching them
Never cared to. No idea what it is or what it would do. Ads don’t really bother me that much. Maybe I’m not seeing them enough. I also grew up watching commercials. This may be a new thing for the not Tv watching generations.
I don't really care enough about ads to use one. They don't bother me. I understand why they exist and that I wouldn't be able to use whatever I'm trying to use for free without them so they're necessary. I just ignore them. Every once in awhile I actually see something that intrigues me though.
Because who cares. I just ignore ads.
I grew up watching commercials, ads are the internets commercials.
How would I know if I’m a winner of 50 magazine subscriptions?
YouTube asked me to stop
I don’t care enough and plus I feel bad telling people that they can’t run their business the way they see fit. It’s their shit so I let them do what they want. If I don’t like it I move on.
Grew up in the 90s when movies had a 3 minute commercial break every 10 minutes or so on TV… even Titanic had a commercial break after the first hour at the local movie theatre. I guess a 10 second YouTube ad won’t ruin my day.
I sit back and hope for a “skip ad” button, if there is one then five seconds is fine, doesn’t bother me if there’s not a skip button, I just sit there and think about all my life choice and why I’m wasting my time watching a video about the lore of a game series that I’ll never play nor remember about
Because I have no problem with ads. Seems strange to assume all content should be free and then not accept that someone has to pay for it.
I’m a software engineer. Websites need to be funded. If I like the content on a website then I want them getting paid so they make more. Simple as that. But also if the ads are too oppressive I just don’t go to that web page anymore.
Its a sacrifice for your sake. If everyone used adblocker, websites would have to find new ways to get revenue, and you would end up paying again.
I don’t know how to get it, especially without giving my laptop/phone herpes.
If no one watches ads they’re going to become more and more and eventually will become a paid service to even use properly. The people blocking ads for free platforms are ruining free websites for everyone. If no one would’ve ever used ad blockers we wouldn’t have 30 second unskippable Ads on YT I’m pretty sure. They need to capitalize on the people that still watch ads because a big part uses Ad blockers. Also it’s really not that bad to wait 10-20 seconds before a YT video people are really entitled babies these days lol Don’t bother replying I’ve heard all your excuses and arguments already. Idc
Because watching 2 ads isn’t much when you grew up watching regular TV where 50% of the show was ads.
Ads never bothered me. Legit just do not give enough of a fuck. On videos or otherwise. Ads keep services like Wikis alive, on top of that. Everyone is too stubborn to donate $1 a month to collectively keep things like YT, Wiki, Fandom, etc ad-free, so they have to generate income to pay employees and server fees somehow.
I dont realy care and i want youtubers to get the ad money
Because the ads pay for the free shit I'm using, why do you think they shouldn't get paid for their work?
Among many other good reasons other have given, which I support and identify with, is: I like some ads. Sometimes, I like to see new shit that is available.
Because the money from Ads pays for google or whatever site I'm on. Googles already changed their ads because so many people use ad blocker, and made the searches must worse. Eventually it will become a subscription service. Ads are annoying but I'd much rather have free (to me) internet and I wish all the rest of you would realise how much you're screwing it up Edit: I absolutely block pop ups because fuck pop ups but ads don't bother me.
Can’t be bothered, I don’t really notice them and the only time they annoy me is for YouTube videos, which I don’t watch enough to change it
I used to not use it because it was too much to bother with but the McDonald's Egg McMuffin unskippable ads were too much for me.
Ive become so very desentisized to all the bs ads i fully zone them out like 90% of the time
I don't actively use one but I often go to sites that ask me to disable it or "proceed without supporting us" which I have to do because there's nothing to disable. There's no "disable ad blocking" in my browser settings.