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I once caught a reddit ban for sharing NSFW content even though the youtube video had none. I had to ask why and it turned out there was porn in the ads and apparently that was my fault.
Wow, that's... kind of impressively sophisticated for the system to pick up on that.
But wait, aren't the ads account-tailored?
Sure, If male = true, show porn ad.
Oh yeah, its so wild when you see it.
Like, I forgot Youtube even has ads.
And just to throw out therr, I get it, people need to make money, I am not against advertising, but fuck the ads are SOOOOO MANY and all come off as SOOOOOO scammy.
If you are showing me an ad online, I assume you and the product are just trying to rip me off and whatever is being promoted is a scam. If it was just "Hey, McDonalds has McRibs" in a little banner, ok fine, whatever. But its all this wild cheap garbage from weird fucking bull shit websites. What happened to actually having a sales person vet this shit?
No they don't. Modern advertising isn't informing ppl of something thats available, it's emotionally manipulative con artistry. They love nothing more than shoving an ad in Yoru face at the moment it would be most manipulative. You don't have to make excuses for them. In fact, you should maybe, intentionally stop doing so.
Same here. A buddy of mine was listening to YT Music on a speaker when an infomercial length ad started talking (uh, I mean, lying) about all the how and why the United States has the best healthcare system in the world and there's no good reason to change any of it.
My head almost exploded. What. The. Fuck.
The ads on some podcasts, like anything NYT, are shockingly conservative lately.
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What happened to actually having a sales person vet this shit?
"Optimized" away as fast as possible, you can safely bet.
It all went to shit when advertisers realized that they don't actually have to sell anything. The ad is the product. That's why so much advertisement is a scam now. Regulation is so far behind the problems of the internet it is ridiculous. Some companies entire business model is to put out ads, then funnel the data straight to data brokers. The products aren't real, they just have to get prints, eyes and occasional curiosity or accidental clicks, and they make a margin over it. It is madness.
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I set up firefox and ublock for my inlaws, but they only use edge.
They like to read some rag newspaper website and the difference is STAGGERING, the ads it has everywhere, I can't describe it. They always use edge, on purpose. Deliberately.
Change to Mullvad or Adguard DNS. It's not perfect, but doesn't require manifest V2 so it works well even on edge.
That said it's even harder to fix issues caused by DNS-level adblocking than an extension so consider at your own risk.
My mom is the same, she uses Firefox but I was hesitant to add ublock because if it break something she would have no idea on how to fix it. So I installed Librewolf and changed so it remembers login to make it simpler for her, she never uses it. I think she is so used to the ads that she believes something is wrong when the ads are no longer there.
I use a VPN so places where I can't block ads, like podcasts on my phone, at least I only get nonsensical swedish-language ads.
I'm surprised people are capable of tolerating the shit it's fucking awful
For decades, if I happen to hear ads playing on radio or something, i literally stick my fingers in my ears and go LALALALA until it stops or I have left.
You're not selling me SHIT today, I will never be part of your brainwashing scheme.
I am willing to die on that hill so help me god.
I think the ads on TV can be an important cultural touchstone.
I feel like it’s turning into a genuine schism in our society. The “it’s fine, I just deal with it”s and the “I swear to fucking god I’ll burn it all down before I see/hear a single goddamn ad”s.
The Time Machine needs to be remade with this in mind.
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Using a phone with no ad block is astonishing. You get taken to sites where ads, cookie consent forms, and other junk all compete to the point that there's no site left to look at. It's the days of pop up windows all over again.
Firefox for phones supports adblock btw.
ive been solely using that. ironfox with ddg is kinda janky with the browser, so i had to use FF.
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Wait, does the average person not use an ad blocker? Like am I within the 40%? 30%? i have really no idea
My dad browsing on his tablet, shows me a page. “Ahhhh, my eyes! You need an ad blocker!”
“Ok give me one”
“You’d have to use firefox”
“Never mind then, I want chrome”
Then continue drowning in ads and tracking, chucklefuck.
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very little have adblock on, plus alot of them likely uses apps on thier phones. and i think men use adblocks more than thier counterparts.
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This is what its like when I turn on the TV at someones house or at a hotel or something. I encounter TV ads so rarely (only commercial free streaming / downloaded content in our house) that its fucking jarring as hell to be watching something and then suddenly there are commercials.
This is me and my wife. She showed me a video on her phone the other day and it started with two ads. I didn't really comprehend that they were ads and asked her why I was watching some weird Dominos meme. 🤷
Yeah dns blocker will give out you in a different world. Apps don't have intrusive ads anymore
I imagine that if you walk around barefoot enough then the random weeds stop consciously bothering you
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I have this conversation with my wife. I installed a pi-hole on our network, works nearly perfectly, however every site thinks we have ad-blockers installed, and kind of we do I guess.
She got mad because all the sites she wants to read (she love celebrity drama) won't let her read any more, so she just uses cellular data instead of the home wi-fi. I don't know how she reads anything with all the ads everywhere.
Your wife is the mentality that ensures we can't have nice things. Too many people are willing to be abused, exploited and manipulated just to get their cookie.
One day I installed AdGuard on a Pi and routed my parent's traffic through it, effectively blocking ads. I thought they would love to live without ads but she asked me to remove it because the games she plays won't progress unless she watches ads.
these people addicted to those freenium ad games.
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Same experience when I try to watch TV with commercials after 20 years of cable. Can't even get through a sitcom. Hard to believe I grew up with that shit drilling into my brain every 5 minutes.
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And then they blame the IT department for their slow computer, or request a new one. Or put one in the fridge to cool it off—I'm not kidding.
I love humans in their creative endeavours, but once they start taking life/work too seriously, or the opposite, have no moral backbone, then god I hate their dung-brained behaviour.
Every time I help a family member with tech support, I make sure to install ubo as an extra , even if it's unrelated to the problem. I've also started adding the bookmarklet kill sticky. Less clutter and ads means less attack vectors, which means less work for me.
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