Whitelist firewall - I have become adpocalypse, destroyer of bad sequels, lover of Web One.
I genuinely don’t know how people manage without ad-blockers and other declutterers. The amount of utter shit that gets in the way of what you’re trying to look at is mind boggling.
Do you want cookies? Do you want to share your details with 1049 trusted data partners? How about the top half of the screen taken by a video ad with a close button that isn’t going to work? How about a redirect to something else entirely? How about the back button not working unless you spam it really quick?
This is a war, and we didn’t start it.
Do you want cookies? Do you want to share your details with 1049 trusted data partners?
They click this thing once. 1 time only for years of “not being bothered by it” (that they notice actively).
I agree it’s total shit but it is from a regular user point of view, easier to use the “i agree” button on most of that stuff once, than to try to avoid it. Constantly on the same few websites anyhow.
Still doesn’t explain the no ad-block for me though, it’s a whole lot easier on the mind to browse ad-free, it is well worth the tiny effort of using ff and activating ublock…
People just got used to having ads shoved down their throats? I am not one of them though, I use uBlock Origin with pride. But most people simply deal with the baggage.
Do you want cookies? Do you want to share your details with 1049 trusted data partners? How about the top half of the screen taken by a video ad with a close button that isn’t going to work?
"Oh, you want to opt out? First click this tiny 4 pt text next to
>>> AGREE TO EVERYTHING <<<
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then uncheck what you don’t want us to track, then click “I don’t not want to be tracked across the Internet for marketing purposes forever and ever.”
We value your privacy!*
*(We just value it just a little more if you’re subject to GDPR or California law…)
And if you do manage to opt out, we’ll ask you again next time you visit.
How about the back button not working unless you spam it really quick?
I get that’s not the point of you comment but you can fix that by right clicking it and selecting a history entry further back. That’s not necessarily a sign of tracking, it could also be caused by an incompetent developer.
Ever seen the kind of messes most people drive around with inside their cars? I think that might explain a thing or two.
“…How old are these french fries…?”
There’s also the fact that on mobile ads use up your data. I’m not paying for a data plan so advertisers can use it to shove ads down my throat because I wanted to check the weather. I’ve used the mobile brave browser for a few years now and I will never go back. I don’t go through nearly as much mobile data as I did prior to using ad blockers.
Plus, putting ublock on my PC made youtube usable again. No more ads that are longer than the video I’m trying to watch.
I don’t know how people tolerate the constant ads either. It was driving me insane and genuinely pissed me off.
I don’t use an ad blocker. What sites do you visit that you need one?
At work when I am googling for help some of the sites are obnoxious but not too bad.
What sites do you visit that you need one?
A good portion of the news sites I read. If I divide the total area that goes for text and ads, it’s around 35-65. Then there’s taboola ads that show at the bottom, before the related articles. uBlock also stops the majority of stupid “WAIT, SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER” modal that shows up as soon as the mouse exits the window
Any shopping sites is chock full of trackers and external ads, too. Lemme browse shit in peace.
You’re getting down votes, which is just silly.
Back in the day, a man wasn’t really a man unless he changed his own oil and tuned up the car himself. That mentality has reemerged in the 21st century.
I don’t think it should be tied to “manliness” but people should have some basic understanding of the tools they use and how they work.
This.
There’s a clear concerted corporate effort to push this idea that everything one uses every day is
- some kind of black box appliance devised by sacred holy wizards, you couldn’t possibly hope to understand.
- You ought to just trust them. They want what’s best for you.
- And don’t worry if anything goes wrong! There’s some service, product, or replacement ready to be sold to you by “qualified professionals.” Convenient!
- Remember, you’re too stupid to understand how any of this works. Don’t touch it.
Doesn’t matter. Light switches to email to cars. Nobody knows how it works even on an ELI5 level.
I can’t be an expert in all things but how are people comfortable with this level of ignorant dependence? Even to the point of defending it? “I shouldn’t have to know how my car/computer/whatever works.” I’ve literally heard this.
Boggles the mind.
People are capable of a great many skills and holding a lot of knowledge about a great many things…and yet a majority are taught not to learn anything after school, maybe know how to do a job, and otherwise can’t handle any task that doesn’t involve a credit card payment.
Things could be so much better…
I got downvoted as well.
People really seem to take the idea personally.
Is AdBlock plus actually open source?
No idea what adguard is, I used adblock plus before thought I’m not using it now as for why I’m not using it I have no idea but I think some ads were getting through otherwise I would not have switched form it. For a few years now I use Ublock and never had a problem with it, in fact it’s the first thing I install on any machine after I finish install an os on it.
Because Ublock Origin is better than AdBlock in every way? Or maybe because they’re already using PiHole?
I doubt people are using better options as an argument for this. The Youtube stuff makes the news like every other for blocking people, yet I haven’t noticed any of it. If it weren’t for lemmy and reddit spamming it I wouldn’t have known it was possible and I’m not even doing anything crazy. Just Firefox and ublock. If people were using great options, it wouldn’t have even been making the news because no one would have noticed.
Firefox with ublock origin was impacted, however only a set of users get the change. This way Youtube can test what impact it has.
The fact you were unaffected means nothing.
I think we don’t give gradual acclimatisation enough credit here. Most of my students have never heard of Firefox and tools like ublock origin because they’re acclimatised to the mobile ecosystem
“How do I install something? I use the app store.”
“Oh, but I already have the internet on my phone, why would I want a 3rd party app to use the internet” (think old people who mix up AOL with the internet in reverse!)
As soon as I show them, they convert in seconds - they’ve forgotten web pages without adverts can exist.
Why people pay for adblocker these day ? Adguard ?
Because for many (including me) it’s by far the best one. I get a system-wide adblocker and vpn on my phone and computer with really good apps. Nothing else has been both so good and easy so I’m more than happy to pay for it, it’s also only $30 per year. I really like their telegram group too, they post news and articles both from them and others about anything related to privacy and so on. They recently wrote about Microsofts addition of ads in Windows and released an update that disabled those.
My man, 95% of people dont even know what a browser is and you expect those to know what an adblocker does or is? even now, all people using adblockers, or extensions in general are barely a drop in a desert dry bucket
Either that or they have 20 useless extensions.
ublock origin, brave with aggressive adblocking and adguard for desktop with some kind of adblocking DNS
and then, you will finally be able to enjoy websites without any bullshit.
It wasn’t always like this. it used to be the case that one form of adblocking was enough. And I really want the internet to go back to the way it was 15 or 16 years ago when you didn’t need to be careful about what you said online and keeping windows machines secure was simple as long as you knew what to get.
ublock origin, brave with aggressive adblocking and adguard for desktop with some kind of adblocking DNS
Will all of this finally get rid of the ads on the YouTube app on my TV?
If you have Android tv, you can use smarttube instead of the official one.
I do not. It’s an LG with WebOS.
No
never use the youtube app, for stuff like that on your smart TV, you need something like iVPN on your router with the “restrictive” setting on the anti-tracker and then you need “adguard home” connected to your home wifi too. it’s a device you have to buy that has adguard in it, not sure how it works.
All your “effort” gets flushed down the toilet with Brave lol
what browser is as good at fingerprint-spoofing besides brave? I mean…Librewolf is pretty good at making its fingerprint look like all the others…as long as the letterboxing is turned on and you don’t adjust the ratio of the window a unique way
That other chromium based browser Vivaldi…I think that’s how it’s spelled, does that have fingerprint protection? does it have it’s own anonymous way of setting up a sync account?
brave
No.
i don’t understand how brave gets so much rep
because it’s good at fingerprint blocking and it’s sync-accounts don’t even require an email address.
Because it’s brave like a lion and not coward like a fox on fire.
ublock and pihole here. Pihole is usually blocking 20-30% of all DNS queries for my home network. Smart TVs are the worst offender.
I don’t use adblock because it increase my browser fingerprint I just disable all JavaScript , no cookies and block tracker requests by my DNS server.
Is this a joke? All those things are going to make you stand out more than using adblocker
not exactly, JavaScript is the most important piece that sites uses to track users . Not the only but the most important
There should should be an ad manager that wont actually block ads but let them load into a fake page that the user does not see
Remember in Futurama when Fry finally goes online in the future and get attacked by ads. Or similar in Altered Carbon with whatever that contact-lens-AR thing was and the character spins out.
I have no less than a dozen plugins in my browser to make the Internet usable. More than half is just for YouTube.
Took me some time to get used to, but I deactivated all the YouTube plugins and now use Freetube an my desktop/laptop.
Freetube is great. I just wish the UI was better about bookmarking playlists and there was some way to sync my progress across devices, including Android
Have you tried the GrayJay app? I’ve been using it to cast Twitch and youtube to my TV, Download videos, and its got polycentric which is some kind of alternative to youtubes comments for videos
That sounds cool! Can I Sync playlist watch history between Linux, Windows, and android?
I’m not sure, but you can login to youtube from the plugins and YouTube can sync the watch history its under sources > YouTube > provide YouTube activity.
There’s no desktop app yet as of now.
