a lot of people want to be told what to think (because they can’t think for themselves) and advertisement tells them what to think. that’s why a lot of people don’t bother with advertisement.
Everyone should install Pihole on their router.
Blatant AstroTurf ad campaign to sell cheap electronics. Blocked.
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I fucking hate ads! Nothing makes me want to buy something less than seeing an ad for something I never asked for in the first place. If I need something I will look it up myself!
Agree. Honestly, websites just feel so much cleaner without ads. Like, ads are literal visual pollution and I hate it.
Then add the ones that lead to malicious sites all over social media or steal your focus that you can no longer scroll that page. They’re insidious and negative, they’re all about manipulating your emotions to then go buy something.
I’m pretty actively hostile to ads: I have an adblocker built into my router, I won’t subscribe to any streaming thing that will show me ads (and I get a lot of shows and movies from… other ad-free sources), don’t have cable etc. The only place I really see them is outside on billboards and stuff.
But anyway, I’m so used to not seeing ads now that going to family member’s places over Christmas was kind of jarring with the amount of ads. What’s wrong with your TV!
Like, ads are literal visual pollution and I hate it.
Ads are not just visual pollution, they’re more importantly also mental pollution.
Right! They’re trying to get a reaction out of you to then buy their crap.
I do exactly same.
Remember kids, advertising is just the graffiti of the rich.
Thanks for that viewpoint.
I live in a great city with lots of (standard) graffiti, and now wonder what regular graffiti is, as compared to advertising. The crying out of some member of the working class that they exist, I suppose?
You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.
Banksy, Wall and Piece
Exactly, it’s capitalist propaganda. Advertising is indoctrination into a system that requires conspicuous consumption to continue to make rich people richer. Get a pihole, please.
Adnauseum for firefox (both pc and android), and PiHole for network-level. When my dad comes over, hes always surprised that his tablet’s crossword game doesnt have ads inbetween levels!
Firefox + uBlock origin, nextDNS + a shit ton of blocking lists, revanced, metrolist and now i forgot that ads even exist.
con:
I always get traumatised when I use a device that isn’t mine.And for that last little bit https://sponsor.ajay.app/
very traumatic, like how do you guys live like this?
Honestly I’m going to have to start asking them out aloud; “how do you live like this, and how can I help?”
I’ve done that plenty of times. I’d encourage you to do so too. You’ll be shocked with how many people you thought you knew say something to the effect of, “but I like the things that get advertised to me and I’ve clicked on a bunch of them and bought things from them! Why would I want to block them?”
I’ve even explained the whole thing about companies building flawed profiles on people and how governments and bad actors can use them as a reason to investigate you. This works with people I know and get along with well, but doesn’t seem to make any difference with others.
Barely watching TV or listening to radio and block ads online. I stop watching TV or switch radio off after the second ad segment and start an audiobook or use an ad free subscriber platform.
Whenever i go to my folks or in-laws, im always blasted by live TV which is absolutely rotten with ads
Same thing when I visit my parents. They effectively have a billboard installed in their home.
Fuck unlock - try adnauseum and actively poison their data
I use adnauseum too, but ublock has its place since it performs better.
I recently tried. Sadly some YouTube ads came through. Could be a configuration thing, but to be fair, if the defaults don’t work as good as ublock it’s not worth switching for me.
That’s a good point, I’ve turned on the annoyances and other filters! It seems to be an overlay on ublock - uBlocks configuration is still accessible in the adnauseum settings
I’ve not had issues with YouTube personally but it’s quite possibly the cat and mouse game they have on their hands
I’il try!
Watching normal TV is jarring, just because I so rarely view non-pirated content.
Once you’re outside that bubble, the invasiveness is so much worse
Never used nextDNS. Idk, do they care about piracy? How do they make money?
They make money with paid plans, but there is a limited free one too, in my expirience it’s enough and they don’t care about piracy i think
Sponsorblock, too. It comes included in ReVanced these days, and even comes with SmartTube, an excellent ad-blocking YT app for android TVs. I am convinced that if I see another ad on YT, I will wither and die. Not today…
SponsorBlock for youtube as well to skip ad reads, with unhooked to de-enshittify youtube as well.
And Privacy Badger
I just block them
One exception is I like some ads while watching TV shows/movies in a group. They’re a built-in break for me to run off an go to the bathroom, get snacks, etc. They’re still generally too frequent, but too many is better than none.
Lol wut. Just ask your friends to pause or wait till the episode is over. A 45 minute episode without ads flys by because the tension / flow of the show is never lost artificially by some cringey #ad for whatever.
Just ask your friends to pause
I do. Ads are better though than having to pause repeatedly to go pee or refill water or to talk about the show.
wait till the episode is over.
Then the next immediately starts (long outro+intros solve that though). Also, no guarantee I can wait that long.
You can turn off autoplay.
For real. Every issue this person raises is easily solved without needing inject yet another Dove body wash or wingstop commercial.
But that’s the same problem with pausing.
I feel that. Sometimes I get lost in the sauce streaming on Revanced and then an entire day is gone. The old style of media had me at least question several times an hour about getting up and doing other things, now it’s easier than ever to just end up in a depression binge
‘Too many ads is better than none.’
Damn bitch, you live like this?
you really can’t just hit pause yourself in the middle of a critical sequence?
Yeah, but it’s annoying when there is a group and it paused it for everyone. There’s the social pressure not to.
that’s a fair point
Social implications no?
Like in the 2000s, the person who was the antsy-est and/or had the smallest bladder had an inarguable reason to take frequent little breaks.
(I’m not deciding for anyone that inviting marketers into the home is better than any other option, just saying!)
Well, you can’t pause normal TV, tbf
normal TV
It’s not been normal for a while now
Now streaming is normal, but about to be replaced by piracy
I broke my friends tv last week trying to avoid ads
You friend did not have a TV, just an ad platform.
You saved them, really
Really?!
I hope that YouTube, Instagram, and Pandora notice that I close their app every time I see a gambling ad
advertising is for knowing what not to buy
SponsorBlock. You have to turn on all the segments to skip.
