I've been blocking ads for so long that actually seeing them feels perverse

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.

satanmat,

I forget that YouTube has ads. And then I go to watch on a platform that doesn’t have blocking and it freaks me out.

YurkshireLad,

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.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Is she one of those people who does it to support creators? Or is it just too much effort for her?

YurkshireLad,

She doesn’t like change…

AstridWipenaugh,

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

perishthethought,

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,

That could mostly be you! 😁

whofearsthenight,

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,

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.

seitanic,
@seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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

perishthethought,

Yep! Every damn time.

uranibaba,

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

YurkshireLad,

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 🤦‍♂️

bug,

My condolences on the divorce

YurkshireLad,

😂

RTRedreovic,
@RTRedreovic@lemmygrad.ml avatar

I have not seen advertisements in a long time accounting to a few years. I have abandoned all the proprietary data harvesting platforms and rarely surf web for no reason. Using libre software, platforms and only referring to specific reliable scientific sources helps a lot in reducing the wastage of time. It also helps in planning things better and I have seen that I am generally able to complete my self assigned projects faster. It also leaves me with more time to spend in leisure. Of course it also combats addiction to mostly useless Social Media. Being away from all the toxicity on the internet also keeps me happier. It’s quite disgusting how tech corporates exploit millions of users’ data for Capital generation.

DirkMcCallahan,

Whenever I use a browser without adblock, it takes me back to the early 2000s, and not in a good way.

VanillaGorilla,

My colleague uses chrome like Google intended and every time she shares her screen I question her sanity. Terminal instead of iTerm, ok. Not using oh my zsh, well, if you insist. But that? You can barely identify the information you're looking for between all that screaming nonsense.

Fades,

I will go to many lengths to avoid ads. I never use the YT app for example unless I’m on my desktop which has multiple ad blocking extensions and containers. Been using Yattee for iOS that plays nice with nvidious or piped

Get fucked advertisers

BeefDaddySupreme,
@BeefDaddySupreme@lemmy.world avatar

I got onto the YouTube vanced train back in 2018 and every now and then I hop on desktop YouTube and it’s soo jaring.

Marketsupreme,

Ublock origin made it so I never see an ad on YouTube

sturmblast,

When I’m not using computers behind my three layers of filters I have here at home… I feel very sad for the internet.

0x2d,

so of course I have ublock origin on my computer, AdAway on my phone and pihole on my network, but the school computers actually prevent you from installing any adblocking extensions

anyway at school I see a lot of “download Wave Browser/OneLaunch/PC app store/other random crapware” ads and videos in the corner and I can barely read anything on the site

provomeister, (edited )
@provomeister@lemmy.ca avatar

It’s times like these that you remember how the Internet has become filled with advertisements to the point that it interferes with normal use. Not suprising to hear older folks still getting random crap on their devices when it’s shown in their face every moment.

stevedidWHAT,
@stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world avatar

Wavebrowser/Onelaunch are fucking CANCER literally everywhere all the time in ads. Tired of google letting them use their ad service, but ya know, gotta get that money anyway how and in every way.

doinks,

It’s insidious. I worked IT at a nonprofit that cares for disabled people, and every so often I’d find that OneLaunch toolbar at the top of one of our PCs and have to go in and uninstall it. I’d look in the history and see that one of the care personnel googled something like “printable calendar” and got tricked into clicking one of those ads. I don’t know how google expects you to use the Internet without blocking all that shit.

pineapplelover,

Is it wave browser or are you misspelling brave? I haven’t seen an ad in a while

0x2d,

Wave browser is a real thing. It’s a PUP adware web browser based on Chromium with Yahoo as the default search engine

Gorejelly,
@Gorejelly@kbin.social avatar

I’ve been doing it for so many years across all devices and platforms that I actually get…confused for a second when one slips through. It is normally YouTube that slips through (they seem to be trying new things almost daily to get around any possible ad blocks), but sometimes it is from a major news web site or something. I actually have to look around for a second and then realize what has just happened.

prole,

I’ve been using uBlock Origin for years, and in that time I’ve never seen one YouTube ad. And I watch a lot of YouTube.

gaydarless,

Does anyone have recommendations on how to block ads on Android without rooting? I’ve tried AdAway but it doesn’t seem to be terribly effective. I’m pretty tied into Chrome and would prefer not to change browsers but I understand I might have to.

Lord_Rhaziel,

Try adguard. Its a system wide blocker(blocks ads in most apps too) and needs no root. Its paid. For free you can use blockada version 5. Get it on fdroid. Or just use adguard dns.

yaaaaayPancakes,

Not what you wish to hear, but for web browsing, use Firefox. The Android version still supports plugin like uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger. Ad blockers are effectively dead in Chrome with the advent of manifest v3.

Firefox accounts work very much like your Google account in chrome, so it was relatively straightforward to migrate. Just install firefox on your desktop, get your Mozilla account set up, and use the desktop tools to migrate from chrome to firefox. Then once it’s good on your desktop, install firefox on your android devices and sign in to your Mozilla account, everything should sync.

Passwords I’d recommend not using any browser solution and instead use something like bitwarden.

Breaking the Google chains are tedious but doable!

LukeMedia,

If you really feel lazy, I’d still go with Firefox password manager over chrome.

Brahm1nmam,

Change your dsn to dns.adguard.com

Edit: Firefox on Android has unlocked origin as well nowadays

SnipingNinja,

Or if you can afford it, subscribe to a private DNS provider, they offer more control.

sickpusy,

When not rooted I have two main free solutions.

You can use nextdns on your home network. They have around 200,000k free requests. For 2 people it seems to work out to around 20 days of ad blocks. This particularly helps with the ads on the TV as well.

Otherwise you have the options to use Firefox with extensions or Brave without (I know it’s not popular around here). You can also use ReVanced for youtube blocks.

For most usage that free combination suffices for me.

LukeMedia,

Firefox with uBlock origin, setting your DNS to “DNS.adguard.com”, and using ReVanced with MicroG for YouTube has worked best for me on a non-rooted phone.

AphoticDev,
@AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You’re pretty much gonna have to switch browsers. There are other options, but they don’t work as well as uBlock Origin. The best alternative to that is a VPN that blocks ads, like Proton. But they aren’t as good at blocking. They will, however, remove most ads, and from other apps as well.

ThirdNerd,
@ThirdNerd@lemmy.world avatar

Spent last weekend visiting family out of state, and it was the first time I’ve watched YouTube with ads in years. I pay to get no ads on YouTube at home, and the ads at family’s home was so irritating. Made me realize that I would either pay YouTube for no ads, OR I would just stop watching YouTube. No compromise on that one.

That being said, I don’t mind a few ads on webpages here and there. I run uBlock Origin and NoScript with only site-needed scripts allowed. Occasionally there’s an ad that manages to not get blocked by either of those, and I don’t go out of my way to also make sure those are blocked. It’s because they aren’t obnoxious. Usually just a box on the side of the page. Not a problem.

imAadesh,

I set up a pihole and installed revanced on my mom’s phone. She was surprised when I mentioned that YouTube has ads once haha.

Gnubyte,

Idk I just pay for stuff if I like it so no ads. Like including DVDs or streaming services. Or I use FOSS and everything’s good.

caseyweederman,

Streaming services are shoehorning ads in for paying customers. DVDs have unskippable ads when you put them in.
Paying for stuff does not free you from ads.

cubedsteaks,

Everyone here is so passionately hating ad’s. I haven’t felt that upset about ad’s since I was a teenager back in like 2004.

I use adblocker for my browser cause I don’t want spyware/malware. But watching TV ad’s is interesting to me. I keep seeing comments about people being complete idiots who just settled and they just take it from the advertisers…

That couldn’t be farther from the truth for someone like me. I enjoy nostalgia a lot. So I got a live tv package with regular cable tv channels and there are ad’s. I did this on purpose though. I am not some idiot who has been brainwashed. I just find advertising interesting in general.

Seems like a lot of commenters here would think of me as some kind of monster. Why, I’m not sure. I guess cause ad’s are some kind of big bad we all have to fight against?

Someone here mentioned that people work on those ad’s and I think that’s part of why I enjoy them. Because technically, that’s often someone’s artwork. I’m in favor of more animated commercials too.

But I get it. Consumerism = bad.

Just feels like more like “no fun allowed”

dangblingus,

Sometimes, if I’m feeling especially saucy, I’ll watch 80s commercial supercuts on youtube for hours.

cubedsteaks,

yeah those are always fun to see!

I went to a bar recently that did a 90’s trivia night and in between the rounds they showed some retro commercials.

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