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I've been blocking ads for so long that actually seeing them feels perverse (leminal.space)

submitted 1 year ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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I use ad blockers and open source privacy focused software whenever I can but occasionally I have to use computers that don't belong to me or an older phone where my usual applications aren't installed and seeing all the advertisements just feels dirty and dystopian.

I think the worst ads are the text to speech ones that say "Download this app today". The unblinking energenic people saying you can make a living at home are probably a close second.

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[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I gave up trying to get my wife to use anything that blocks ads, and she won't switch away chrome. When she bakes, she leaves her tablet or phone open, with multiple video ads destroying her battery. Seeing this thing just turns my brain to mush as I don't see any ads. I don't know how she puts up with having ten video ads on one page.

[-] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Time to set up a pi hole on your local network and kill it at the source!

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

And then hear 10,000 times how her web site is broken by the ad blocker, and show her again how to disable it for the 10,000th time. Or is that just my hell?

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

That could mostly be you! 😁

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

That must be some janky-ass website if it gets broken by an ad-blocker.

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yep! Every damn time.

[-] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

My wife is on board with pretty much all of my shit in this area. That said, do I have exceptions in my pi-hole for a shitty mahjong clone's ad service? You betcha.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Of all the games infested with ads, your wife is subjecting herself to them for a common-as-Hell type of game that you could get a non-malicious version of from F-droid?!

That's just downright stupid.

[-] uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I can relate. I permanently removed all her devices when I still used it. Now I just use https://ovpn.se/en, it comes with ad blocker built in to the client.

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I tried that, it seemed to break some sites she used. So she made me remove it. Yet she complains about Facebook and google knowing what she’s browsing 🤦‍♂️