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[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"disable adblock" popup = close tab

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Use adblock to disable the anti adblock popup

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Gone... Reduced to atoms

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And the cookie windows that don't come with a Reject All.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Install Consent-o-Matic and watch those “we and our 8,0000 partners care about your privacy” banners disappear.

For web sites that aren’t yet supported, you can easily click the extension and then click “Submit for Review”, and the dev team quickly adds them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I need it for mobile more than anything. On PC my fingers hit Ctrl+W with as much thought as breathing requires. On mobile I just spam back and sometimes that goes too far or too little.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago

They say: "Disable adblocking to visit our site"

I hear: "DO NO visit our site"

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I have nothing against ads in principle. Anyone who offers a service such as a useful website should of course be rewarded for it.

What I am against is intrusiveness and tracking. If advertising were just simple locally served banners in the sidebars of the website without any tracking, as it used to be, I would have no problem with it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. To let advertisers intrude on your brain for what you get in exchange is usually an unfair bargain. People really undervalue their attention and time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I have crippling ADHD and I am constantly amazed at how little people value their attention. Just baffled watching folks melt their brains on things like TikTok.

It's like watching a teenager buying drugs. Just... you don't know what consequences this could bring you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

If advertising were just simple locally served banners

And didn't let anybody run scripts on your page, and had any kind of filtering so people won't get malware by clicking on the ads.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Not to mention ads have been caught being straight up malware and phishing without any real vetting on behalf of the ad companies. Malware has even gotten to the top of Google search results just by buying an ad slot they didn't vet. It's become a legitimate and serious security concern.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In the same way that a year ago I watched YouTube with ads. I’m not watching with ads if it’s even close to the same amount of ad as video

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I literally subbed to a podcast using the RSS, and they feed ads through like most podcasts do these days. It started with two ads, ok fine that's not too bad. It plays the podcast for 8:50ish, and then drops, not "another," but four ads. It very well may have been more than four too, but during the fourth (sixth total) I stopped the podcast and unsubbed. Not only were there all those ads, but part of the actual eight whole minutes the hosts talked was them plugging their patreon.

None of this was hyperbole, and I remember it well as it happened yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

There's a few youtubers I've either stopped watching, or very rarely watch, because of the amount of plugging they do. I get that they have bills to pay, but some of them are ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'd rather have the internet die than to watch ads. I don't want to see it burn, but I am prepared to pay that price.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, the internet won't die. It was just fine before ads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

There were definitely ads floating around on ARPANET in the late 70s, even though weren't technically allowed. It's kinda been with the internet all along.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

im there to. I love it but I would rather go everywhere in person than the crappy options we have today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Web commerce in particular doesn't depend on web ads at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

yeah I mean banks and such to should save if you don't go in person. The online experience should be just massively better than in person.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

pop over says to disable content blockers

Me: uses content blockers to block pop over

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

And then there are "disable ad-blockers" + "Ad-free subscription" sites

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

The fourth panel is a literal gun emerging from the screen & threatening your loved ones.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Well this led me down a rabbit-hole. I thought the character looked familiar, which led me to their origin from an older comic by a different creator. And the discovery that the original creator is anti-trans, yuck.

Glad to see Mimi and Eunice in better company these days. Thanks for posting this comic!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Somehow this doesn't fully represent how actual AD popups are obnoxious nowadays

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

If you've allowed enough trash from a website to run on your browser that they are then able to run checks to determine whether you are blocking ads, then you have been far too lenient with your blocker settings.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I find them far too distracting from the content.

I have a hard time focusing when the TV is on in the background, and a lot of ads are like having multiple TVs in the bgr.

So I turn them off.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's usually other companies wanting you to buy their shit, not the site that the ads are shown on. That site "makes its living" by selling ad-space to these other companies.

I dislike ads just as much as the next person but I feel like this representation is disingenuine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This is fair

However, it's up to the site how they choose to display ads, and UI/UX. If the content pane is like 1/4 the size of my screen, we're gonna have problems

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If the screen had shouted "Buy this shit!" Would it have hit different? I had the same thought. I've seen a few sites that advertise their own wares and they are sketchy. I think the issue is that the site is still in charge of how much advertising they show. Usually, they're showing unrelated ads, but they're showing a lot of them.

I dislike ads just as much as the next person, and I'm just curious if I understand you properly.