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This is what the official Reddit app looks like, by the way (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247

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[–] 203 points 3 years ago (5 children)

I just realized I'm taking my ad-free experience in Lemmy for granted. It's refreshing to have a little corner of the internet that doesn't slam you with advertising.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Uh oh! You’ve reached your daily limit of free Lemmy™ posts. Please tap here to spend 45 Lembux™ and refresh your post allowance.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    My ublock origin icon has been at a steady 0 ads blocked in my entire time browsing Lemmy. It feels weird.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    On several sites that counter climbs like crazy. I'm watching a YouTube video right now that's only 12 minutes long. The uBlock counter just hit 60.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I have a youtube tab open, it's currently at 498 blocks. After writing that, 503.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I haven't had this page up very long today, but apparently YouTube is on an advertising roll at the moment.

    Added bonus: I'm one of the three people in the world who pays for YouTube premium... so the quantity of ads should be much lower.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Soon, when things go smoother, I absolutely wouldn't mind either having ads or paying a low annual fee.

    The problem with Reddit was seeking out vulture capital. Turning a small profit, enough to pay people something resembling wages, isn't a bad thing.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    The start of ads seems to always lead to a path of enshitification. One of the reasons I really like jellyfin is because they realized this and intentionally disabled recurrent donations. They saw what it does to Plex and saw the eventually the leadership's will try to sell out and sell the company or IPO.

    Jellyfin saw the way every service seemed to go once the revenue picked up and decided they want to prevent that.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If you're on android, you should try blockada, I don't have ads whatsoever

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    or just NextDNS which doesn't even require anything to be installed

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    For those who don’t know: DNS blockers can be sketchy unless you’re hosting it yourself. Something like a pihole that you set up would be fine, but external DNS services are almost guaranteed to be data-mining you even worse than the ads and trackers they’re blocking.

    It’s a little like free VPNs. The reputable ones cost money, because if you’re not the customer then you’re the product.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    that is fair, but your ISP is logging the DNS requests anyway, and NextDNS allows you to turn off logging.

    Edit: I also don't see how it's worse than ads and trackers, they can only see the domain names of the sites you visit.

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