Oh yeah, its so wild when you see it.

Like, I forgot Youtube even has ads.

And just to throw out therr, I get it, people need to make money, I am not against advertising, but fuck the ads are SOOOOO MANY and all come off as SOOOOOO scammy.

If you are showing me an ad online, I assume you and the product are just trying to rip me off and whatever is being promoted is a scam. If it was just "Hey, McDonalds has McRibs" in a little banner, ok fine, whatever. But its all this wild cheap garbage from weird fucking bull shit websites. What happened to actually having a sales person vet this shit?

I once caught a reddit ban for sharing NSFW content even though the youtube video had none. I had to ask why and it turned out there was porn in the ads and apparently that was my fault.

Wait, does the average person not use an ad blocker? Like am I within the 40%? 30%? i have really no idea

This is what its like when I turn on the TV at someones house or at a hotel or something. I encounter TV ads so rarely (only commercial free streaming / downloaded content in our house) that its fucking jarring as hell to be watching something and then suddenly there are commercials.

I'm surprised people are capable of tolerating the shit it's fucking awful

I have this conversation with my wife. I installed a pi-hole on our network, works nearly perfectly, however every site thinks we have ad-blockers installed, and kind of we do I guess.

She got mad because all the sites she wants to read (she love celebrity drama) won't let her read any more, so she just uses cellular data instead of the home wi-fi. I don't know how she reads anything with all the ads everywhere.

I set up firefox and ublock for my inlaws, but they only use edge.

They like to read some rag newspaper website and the difference is STAGGERING, the ads it has everywhere, I can't describe it. They always use edge, on purpose. Deliberately.

Using a phone with no ad block is astonishing. You get taken to sites where ads, cookie consent forms, and other junk all compete to the point that there's no site left to look at. It's the days of pop up windows all over again.

Every time I help a family member with tech support, I make sure to install ubo as an extra , even if it's unrelated to the problem. I've also started adding the bookmarklet kill sticky. Less clutter and ads means less attack vectors, which means less work for me.

This is me and my wife. She showed me a video on her phone the other day and it started with two ads. I didn't really comprehend that they were ads and asked her why I was watching some weird Dominos meme. 🤷

I imagine that if you walk around barefoot enough then the random weeds stop consciously bothering you

When I have to go off my network because some website won't load because I am blocking their trackers I get sick from the AI ads, its gross. Truth in advertising is dead so so dead. They are not even trying to make products look real anymore.

I won't allow list the things the site needs, I would rather just go on mobile for a min. I wish I could set DNS settings per browser so I could spin up a lighter adblock that will allow the sites I have to rarely access and then just have a dedicated browser for.

I had this experience at work last year. I shared some article that was relevant to work and half the people complained that it had a full page ad they couldn’t dismiss. The other half of us used Adblock, apparently.

Same experience when I try to watch TV with commercials after 20 years of cable. Can't even get through a sitcom. Hard to believe I grew up with that shit drilling into my brain every 5 minutes.

I literally had this thought yesterday. I'm so glad I know how to use technology. I have no idea how folks raw dog the internet today.

And then they blame the IT department for their slow computer, or request a new one. Or put one in the fridge to cool it off—I'm not kidding.

I love humans in their creative endeavours, but once they start taking life/work too seriously, or the opposite, have no moral backbone, then god I hate their dung-brained behaviour.

I've been using ad block for years and was so confused when I went to watch the Rick and Morty marathon on Adult Swim. I had no idea it showed ads during the "intermission". I immediately muted it, tried to figure out why ad block wasn't working and questioned how anyone could put up with it.

Coming from a guy who watched infomercials as a kid, I could recite them from memory, living ad free for almost 20 years makes ads nauseating to me.

I install uBlock origin for them when they aren't looking.

Now that Vivaldi finally has to let go of Manifest v2 (fuck you, Google!) gave their builtin ad blocker a chance. It seems to work fine for most things, except YouTube shorts. I occasionally scroll through those and basically every second video is an ad that would have been blocked by uBlock Origin. How can people tolerate that?

I guess if that happens to other websites, I really need to figure out which Firefox fork best matches the things I liked about Vivaldi (websites in sidebar, workspaces/tab groups, good performance, no AI bullshit)

I use a VPN so places where I can't block ads, like podcasts on my phone, at least I only get nonsensical swedish-language ads.