The more irrelevant the advertising I see, the happier I am about my digital footprint.
Plus, it's funny to me when "the algorithm" tries to sell a moist, pasty red-head lotion and hair relaxer because I matched into that demographic somewhere along the line.
I am avoiding nearly all ads.
I've never seen a targeted ad. It's very rare that I see any ads at all. Ublock Origin does a very good job of getting rid of them.
A coworker was showing me something in his phone and I was amazed, how clutered it was with all these ads. I don't know how people can cope with today's internet without an adblocker
Agreed.
I like to imagine the life of the person ads think I am. I get ads in Spanish, I get medication ads for illnesses I do not have, and sometimes literally cannot have,I get ads for high end lab equipment. By far my favorite was an ad for deep sea oil rig sand traps, why would that ad even be made, and why send it to a 50 year old man in a landlocked state who is watching minecraft lets plays and pink pony club covers.
I live an ad-free life since about 2010. But I do wonder what it's like to see targeted ads.
I got advertised bras the other day when I was forced to see ads for the first time in years
Considering I don't use bras, that's probably a good sign
I'm pretty sure Google figured out I'm a woman in my 40s living in Finland so my YouTube ads reflect that. Get feminine product ads and toy ads before Christmas.
And sometimes weird B2B adverts like business software and logistics services and industrial equipment.
One time it was straight up "hey, gurl, wanna buy a tractor???" ...probably because I have watched Farming Simulator let's plays. Years ago.
Over a decade ago I did some volunteer work with disabled children for a few months. Basically assist them, organize a summer camp for people with and without disabilities, teaching other volunteers how to approach and effectively help them, etc.
I also did some workshops showing non-disabled people what certain disabilities are like, how they affect you in ways they wouldn’t even expect, how to improve things to make them more accessible and so on.
Even today, I get constantly shown ads for clinics, medical treatments, wheel chairs, prosthetics,… ugh
Install ublock origin
I do use uBlock Origin. But I'm not allowed to do so (and do not have the privilege to do it anyways) on my work devices. My PiHole takes care of a part of the ads for these, when I work from home, but still...
Also there's a decent chance, that $App finds a way to shove ads down your throat anyways, though there aren't many apps left that try to show ads, as I consider that a ban able offense that's worth a Deinstallation without warning
What would a workplace have against adblockers???
Do they WANT viruses on work computers? Adware exists and is a threat.
Nah, but they mandate chrome based browsers, and after manifest V2 was removed...
We do still have ad blockers, but they do not work as effectively as before.
You guys are seeing ads? I barely use my phone and on my PC I use Firefox with ublock origin. It's simple really.
fennec with ublock origin works wonders on the phone too.
Or just the default Firefox app, which supports extensions.
Yeah, seriously. This whole "Firefox on mobile doesn't support adblock/extensions" sentinent is very stubborn, yet I've been using them for multiple years without fail at this point.
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