Ads are basically someone rubbing diarrhea directly on your eyeballs
SponsorBlock. You have to turn on all the segments to skip.
Teach 👏 your 👏 kids 👏 to 👏 hate 👏 ads 👏
In Belgium, we had a pretty based children TV show called “Blabla”. In the opening song there ks
Je bouche mes oreilles et je cache mes yeux. La pub ? Bêê !
I plug my ears and I cover my eyes. Ads? Blegh!
Hell yeah
Henry Kuttner’s story ‘Year Day’ from 1953 is a nice dystopian portrayal of how bad it can get even compared to the present day. (It was published in the collection ‘Ahead of Time’, idk where one can get it currently.)
On the occasion that we have to watch something that’s not self-hosted, my toddler will point and go “oh ads!” LOL
Peak childhood if you ask me
Advertisements are the devil. Time theft, propaganda, etc. They’ll take as much of your life as possible and waste it on watching car commercials.
I will never willingly watch any advertisement. Do my best to block in all situations.
new pipe is great for watching youtube on andoid without ads (tubular is a fork with sponsorblock), and kodi is a great home entertainment system with plugins that allow streaming youtube without ads :3
I’ve had so many problems getting new pipe to work :( I just have ublock on my Firefox on my phone now. Works just as well 🤷
This is why I stopped using Twitch(among other things). Kept making it harder and harder to block ads, content experience got worse because of it, so I just stopped using the platform entirely.
I used to watch twitch a good bit while i was doing other things. It was great to have on while doing dishes or cleaning up.
I remember trying again in the not too distant past. I got hit with like 5 ads to start the stream. Thought that was going to be is as long as i stayed there… NOPE. Got 5 more ads like 5-10 minutes later. Shut it down and never looked back.
Same, had it on during daily chores, listened to it while mowing the lawn, and if work was slow I’d have it on a tablet off to the side with my headphones(boss didn’t care).
That was back in 2019, haven’t used it since.
Amazon, one of the richest corpos in the fucking world. And they put an ad break every 30 minutes or whatever to promote their paid subscription… That gets rid of ads for you…
Not to mention paywalling basic player features
Fucking hate their guts
Firefox + uBlock origin, nextDNS + a shit ton of blocking lists, revanced, metrolist and now i forgot that ads even exist.
con:
I always get traumatised when I use a device that isn’t mine.Whenever i go to my folks or in-laws, im always blasted by live TV which is absolutely rotten with ads
Same thing when I visit my parents. They effectively have a billboard installed in their home.
SponsorBlock for youtube as well to skip ad reads, with unhooked to de-enshittify youtube as well.
And Privacy Badger
Fuck unlock - try adnauseum and actively poison their data
I use adnauseum too, but ublock has its place since it performs better.
I’il try!
I recently tried. Sadly some YouTube ads came through. Could be a configuration thing, but to be fair, if the defaults don’t work as good as ublock it’s not worth switching for me.
That’s a good point, I’ve turned on the annoyances and other filters! It seems to be an overlay on ublock - uBlocks configuration is still accessible in the adnauseum settings
I’ve not had issues with YouTube personally but it’s quite possibly the cat and mouse game they have on their hands
And for that last little bit https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Sponsorblock, too. It comes included in ReVanced these days, and even comes with SmartTube, an excellent ad-blocking YT app for android TVs. I am convinced that if I see another ad on YT, I will wither and die. Not today…
Never used nextDNS. Idk, do they care about piracy? How do they make money?
They make money with paid plans, but there is a limited free one too, in my expirience it’s enough and they don’t care about piracy i think
Watching normal TV is jarring, just because I so rarely view non-pirated content.
Once you’re outside that bubble, the invasiveness is so much worse
very traumatic, like how do you guys live like this?
Honestly I’m going to have to start asking them out aloud; “how do you live like this, and how can I help?”
I’ve done that plenty of times. I’d encourage you to do so too. You’ll be shocked with how many people you thought you knew say something to the effect of, “but I like the things that get advertised to me and I’ve clicked on a bunch of them and bought things from them! Why would I want to block them?”
I’ve even explained the whole thing about companies building flawed profiles on people and how governments and bad actors can use them as a reason to investigate you. This works with people I know and get along with well, but doesn’t seem to make any difference with others.
Barely watching TV or listening to radio and block ads online. I stop watching TV or switch radio off after the second ad segment and start an audiobook or use an ad free subscriber platform.
If you block ads from loading, you are using less processing power and thus less energy. Everyone should make the green choice of adding adblock to every browser. Save the planet.
That isn’t hostile enough, AdNauseam clicks them in the background.
I’m not sure I agree with that approach though. I get that the goal is to cost the advertisers money without benefit, but I kinda feel like contributing to that system at all is just encouraging them to do it more.
It provides junk data as well, which a lot of sites and advertisers use to sell to others. If enough people do it, then it becomes less profitable to do so since it because apparent there’s a deliberate attempt to obsfucate.
What if not enough people do it though? If you don’t reach that threshold, aren’t you just inflating the amount of data they have to sell?
NextDNS at the front in the router. Adblockerwon all browsers. SmartTube on the TV. Sponsor Block add-ons. What ads? The ads I ever manage to get are very non-intrusive and don’t interfere with my browsing experience.
I hope that YouTube, Instagram, and Pandora notice that I close their app every time I see a gambling ad
Yup, right this here
I’m extremely hostile to ads, always have been
I’m arring my ways over the seas because it’s impossible to watch videos normally without ads, even when paying. Even Netflix every now and then manages to annoy the fuck out of me even while paying.
I do not want to watch what you want me to watch
I do not want to know about your bullshit products
I invest actual money and time into actively avoiding any and all ads, and happily do so
Fuck marketing, it should be prohibited
I’ve been using this HOSTS file for over two decades to prevent ads.
HOSTS + Ublock Origin + Privacy Badger 🤌
Pi-hole basically does that for me (or mullvad vpn)
I was talking about this with my wife the other day. I just can’t understand how people are as OK with ads as they are.
I was talking to my girlfriend about this recently too. I forget where I first heard it, but someone said, “You have a right to your private mind. Persuasive ads are junk,” and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Persuasive advertising is absolute junk!
No ads in my life except when i go into town. Difficult to block IRL ads… Yet
São Paulo in Brazil made advertisement on public streets illegal, and banned most types of banners, restricted the amount of logos etc to greatly improve the visual experience of the city. It’s definitely much better now than it ever was.
Now they just gotta take care of the pollution, increasingly vulnerable homeless population and neglected poor areas and then it would be paradise.
I do exactly same.
