Study claims more than half of Americans use ad blockers
www.theregister.com
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    • pachrist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I get that ads pay for a free internet. But that doesn’t mean that 60% of my screen needs to be malware to read a local news article.

      Until advertisers act in good faith, I block as much as possible.

      • Zikeji@programming.devEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Or those scummy click bait ads disguised as related articles? They make my blood boil with how they prey on the vulnerable.

      • Drusenija@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I’ve been seeing clips from Ready Player One recently and this reminded me of the main bad guy’s philosophy on advertising in the OASIS.

        we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual’s visual field before inducing seizures

        Can’t help but feeling there’s some parallels there.

      • moitoi@feddit.deEnglish
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        6 months ago

        At least, you can change your DNS to one who blocks ads. It’s not as efficient as uBlock origin and system wide on Android. But, it’s better than nothing.

      • neo@feddit.deEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Can you install Firefox?

        In Firefox you should be able to install the add-on “uBlock origin”. No additional tweaking of settings required.

        With Firefox you can browse the web including pages like YouTube.

  • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I dislike the fact that “ads” can also include crapware being injected into my computer (viruses, tracking cookies, mysterious scripts, etc).

    • neo@feddit.deEnglish
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      6 months ago

      If you had nothing to hide, you wouldn’t mind Trojans! /s

  • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I am surprised the reason for blocking ads doessn’t include making sites somewhat readable. I guess faster loading could be it? But generally it’s more of a layout problem than a bandwidth one.

    I tend to not use adblockers, or when I do it’s on a black list system for worst offenders rather than by default. However, I absolutely refuse tracking, and if it’s the only option I go to firefox reader mode immediately.

    The usual false dichotomy of “personalised ads or you’re killing us!” is not acceptable.

    • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Ad tech IS the tracking, so if you’re not blocking ads, you’re not actually refusing said tracking. I think you might be conflating cookies with being tracking (they are), but that’s only a part of it.

      • MyFairJulia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I wonder why ad tech can‘t be „Let‘s show ads that correspond to what‘s being talked about on that website.“ Kinda like what Google suggested with Topics but without following me through the internet.