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[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 317 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Techbros really went full police state just to deliver ads I wouldn't click on straight into my adblocker

[-] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 159 points 2 months ago

You'd be surprised how many people raw dog the internet.

[-] M137@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago

Even people you'd really expect to use adblockers. A good example is right here on Lemmy, people here are generally pretty tech-savvy yet you get threads with lots of people complaining about ads. This has been a weird lesson as I get older, seeing that most people somehow don't even think about lifting a finger to fix things they see as problems, they really just complain and then do absolutely nothing to help themselves. It's the same with if someone mentions something they don't know what it is, instead of taking 5 seconds to just look it up they comment to ask about it and then never reply to people answering their question. I'm certain that it's very common to have some weird need to make others do work for you, they don't actually care about finding out what something is or how to do something to fix a problem, they just care about making others spend any kind of effort for them.

[-] anhydrous@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I work as a software engineer with other software engineers. Even software engineers and UX designers using the internet that way. Talented ones. Many of them - maybe the majority. It takes me a second to get over my astonishment when they share their screens. Not only astonishment at how overboard ads have gotten w/o an adblocker, but also that this particular person doesn't use an adblocker.

So many people aren't well-informed about what ad networks or doing, or how different the web experience could be.

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