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ublock and privacy badger. umatrix for fine tuning.

I would not even mind them if they did not repeat so fucking much.

I run uBlock on top of a pi-hole, with invidious and de-arrow for youtube stuff.

I don't see ads anymore.

And when I'm on a different device, where I can't stop the ads, I simply don't consume the content.

I may be extreme, but on those rare occasions when an ad slips through my adblock wall, I actively wonder it there's a way I can avoid buying that specific product in the future.

That's how much I hate ads.

No kidding, if I happen to hear an ad on a tv or radio I'm passing by I plug my ears and go lalalalala until I or it are gone. I truly can't stand them that much, it's a psychotic invention meant to constantly brainwash you into becoming a mindless consumption robot and I refuse to partake.

Actively hostile relationship with advertising

Describes defensive relationship with advertising.

Smh. Actively hostile relationship is like throwing bricks at their offices, or, at the very least, calling their support and bogging them down with stupid questions with no intention to buy their services. Or... spreading information on why you shouldn't use their services.

I'll start: Ground News is a site based on the stupidest idea ever and it's use is actively dangerous for the society. It steals traffic from real news sources doing actual grunt work, and then has the gall to ask you to pay them for it. It teaches you to turn off your critical thinking and to just trust them on rating news sources biases which they pull from... where, exactly? Ah yeah, straight out of their arses. But worst of all, they put left and right outlets on equal pedestals as if both have the same merit, promoting this weird centrist position of half left ideas and half literal fascism. American fascism, to be precise, because those ratings don't even make sense outside of USA. For example, they've rated Al Jazeera, the news agency wholly owned by an authoritarian monarchy state, as "left leaning". Like, what?

Invasive ads are my reference to not buying the product.

There is no device in my house with an adblock of some kind, even my router has one.

The best way to hate is to never acknowledge at all

I find sponsor reads kinda funny. Its like we went back to dawn of tv. And speaking about statisfying, there is nothing more satisfying than a cool paul morrow cigarrete....

Another word for "marketing" or "advertisement" is Manipulation. Shady, manipulative, tactics.

Fuck them. I love Lemmy because it seems like the ratio of like-minded people is much larger here. Nothing better than seeing other principled people that would rather give up some comforts than deal with ads and bend the knee to the pieces of shit that try to push them.

Even products in the supermarket (such as bread!!) come with ads in the fucking plastic wrapper. I have changed my bread brand due to this. I will absolutely give up any comfort to avoid your manipulation. I will fucking shower in cold water if it means I don't bend the knee to pieces of shit.

We just had a sporting event in the US where people are more interested in the ads than the actual event itself.

My entire homelab is constructed with the unofficial goal of never watching any advertisements ever.

Advertising isn’t inherently negative, but people naturally push back when they feel their attention is being taken for granted. Respect for the audience makes all the difference.

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

Banksy

Does political propaganda count?

Advertising can feel overwhelming when it stops being informative and starts feeling intrusive. The balance between visibility and respect for attention is important.

They all lulled us with meme culture. Instead what we needed was to create anti ads. Any time our podcast or content creators began showing ads, then we should have first been super pissed off. Pissed Off because these people ruined television. We were in a time when companies were creating patents were you had to shout the brand name at your TV to turn off the commercial. The internet was content creation without those capitalist fucks. Second we should have made an effort to create as hostile and environment to them as possible. Sorry to the little guy, but go to cable access.

For every ad that sucked our free time, we could have produced at least 2 anti ads. Like when a podcast advertised for zockdoc or whatever, we all needed to leave comments like "pretty sure they told my aunt she had cancer even though it was just a cough" or if it's some drop shipper on reddit acting like they just found this cool temu star lamp then every comment should have been about how these lights burst into flames and killed your entire family.

We need to make the internet as hostile as possible to advertisers. They are the reason we are tracked and why have enshittification. They built the systems to track our profiles and market to us all under the guise of selling ads to random content creators. Why is pewdiepie and Jack Paul and Joe Rogan millionaires now meddling in our politics. Because we didn't defend this new frontier. We knew they'd create data scarcity, we knew we had to stop it, but they rat fucked us with cat videos and memes.

Stop doing this nonsense manually !

• Skipping ads ? Use uBlock Origin !
• Skipping sponsorships ? Use SponsorBlock !

I literally dropped my Internet Provider which had a Net+TV+phone packet when their TV box got enshittified with Ads.

Got me a different, Internet Only, provider and made my own TV box from a Mini-PC with Linux and a wireless remote control.

Interestingly, I ended up paying 1/3 the price and getting 5x faster internet relative to the previous provider, so thanks for trying to shove adds on my face Vodaphone!

Pro tip

On youtube, if you get an ad that is related to either gambling or alcohol, you can block the ad and it will skip right to the video tou we're watching