Yeah dns blocker will give out you in a different world. Apps don’t have intrusive ads anymore
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.
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?
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 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.
I listen to or see and enjoy the adverts, then I don’t buy their products. They spent that money advertising at me, and get nothing.
Do you know how many car adverts I’ve seen on TV in my life? Hundreds.
I can’t even drive.
“Sticking it to the man”
I just switch it off. If its not my device my interest in what ever was on immediately shuts down and I go do something else.
Like a comedy show is on the TV at a relatives house and I walk by, its entertaining and I sit down to watch with them. Oh adverts, off I go then.
I take the remote and mute the ad for its duration.
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.
I use uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and Consent-o-Matic with the Firefox browser on my phone.
For Android. FF Focus for iOS can do some ad blocking, but standard is still limited being WebKit.
I get the flack Brave gets, and I wouldn’t touch it on desktop, but I’ve struggled to find a better option on iPhone.
I know, it’s the only way I can use my phone these days.
On the other hand, we should be thankful for the masses. If most people used adblockers that shit would get choke slammed off the Internet so hard our heads would spin. It’s only because like 10% people use it that it stays under the radar.
I install uBlock origin for them when they aren’t looking.
I install it when they are, and explain why, and how to temporarily turn it off if it breaks a website. Spreading the idea plus uBlock Origin is way more impactful than just uBlock Origin.
Don’t. When their computer breaks it’ll be your fault and they will never stop calling you.
Just do good in the shadows. That’s my motto.
Superhero origin story.
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.
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. 🤷
good spouses don’t let their SO suffer ADs
I downloaded audio files and VLC to make a playlist so my partner doesn’t have to listen to ads when out for a run.
It might be time to introduce them to Navidrome :)
my work laptop didn’t come with an adblocker for some reason unfathomable to me. the first time I realized there were ads on, like, everything was certainly humbling.
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.
I once had an ad break so long I plain forgot what I was watching.
If I ever get hit with a break longer than 2:30 I just nope out.
If I’m hit with a break >0 I’m out.
It wasn’t every 5 minutes back in the day. Ad time slowly ate into show time over the years.
True, when I was a kid the ads were about 7 minutes apart.
I imagine that if you walk around barefoot enough then the random weeds stop consciously bothering you
But what about the broken glass, lego bricks, jellyfish, brightly colored posionous creatures, and literal feces?
When the average internet user encounters those they die.
The brightly coloured poisonous creatures aren’t the problem, it’s the dull brown ones…
I don’t mind rough ground under my bare feet, what gets me is floor grit.
Yes, on hardwood or tile, ugh.
That’s why I use indoor gravel floors.
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.
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?
I would pay for an app to tell me the nearest McDonalds that had McRibs.
I’m always surprised when a band mate wants to share a song with me and they whip up their phone and absolutely tolerate 45s of ads before the music starts
Oh yeah, and Spotify pays artist garbage. Its best to buy direct from their website or Bandcamp (on Bandcamp Fridays).
Though Bandcamp is starting to get enshitified.
They also interrupt video at random times on web video. It is like web advertisers are unaware of the transition that existed on linear broadcast so the viewer can retain context. Web videos are so jarring they have the reverse effect.
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.
A lot of ads just seem like AI advertising made-up products that don’t exist, gambling, or payday loans. Or sometimes totally normal things like a local college.
Normal college that makes you take out loans, or worse, sketchy technical schools that promise they’ll help you find a job if you just sign up for a 20k loan
Surprisingly just the local community college that’s been around for decades. ~$1000/semester for full-time in-district residents or ~$1600/semester for in-state but out-of-district). Not sure why they’re doing ads like they’re a scam, unless there’s been some changes such that they are.
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.
What happened to actually having a sales person vet this shit?
“Optimized” away as fast as possible, you can safely bet.
You don’t immediately want to click on an AI image of a toe infection, or fingers holding some weirdly anatomical exotic fruit?
I have no idea what you are even talking about because I basically never see ads anywhere.
You’re not missing much.
How do you watch YouTube on mobile without ads? Do you just watch on mobile browser instead of using YT app? Is there some alternative front end app that includes adblock?
I don’t use the app and disabled it. I watch via Firefox Mobile which has Ublock Origin. Also I run NextDNS, which I pay $2/month to, to block ads.
Similar set up on the desktop and laptop, though I also yt-dl a lot.
I also just, really hate video as a format for 99% of things. I MUCH prefer reading blogs and such. Most of my Youtube watching is concert videos. I love live music, even if its mediocre cell phone footage.
I watch Youtube in my Firefox Android with uBlock Origin, zero ads 👌
So for Android there’s for example Grayjaj (available on Playstore or https://grayjay.app/ ) or how about Newpipe ( https://newpipe.net/ )
For IOS I have no Idea but how about firefox with UBlock origin
Brave browser on iOS will do it. Orion probably will as well.
Newpipe has been pretty great for me on Android.
+1 for grayjay, works really well for me
https://f-droid.org/packages/InfinityLoop1309.NewPipeEnhanced
PipePipe is kind of like an RSS reader for YouTube. It’s not going to give you algorithmic suggestions based on your viewing activity, but it will let you follow channels, and it doesn’t show the ads.
Also, if you find that it’s not working suddenly one day, it probably just needs to be updated.
I’ve heard Firefox with Ublock Origin and Sponsorblock works well on Android. I’ve personally had frequent issues with Grayjay. But I haven’t tried the above solution yet.
Yes the app is cancer
Brave blocks it automatically. Easy.
I don’t want to get in a debate about brave.
I mean it’s the same with any other browsers with ad blockers on mobile platforms.
Firefox on Android and Orion on IOS both let you use ublock origin.
No need to use crypto bro ad company browser.
Brave users are in a cult. I swear to god.
I’m not, I just really don’t care that much.
Then just watch YouTube with ads or pay for premium.
I mean you care enough to mention it randomly. 🤷♀️
What? No I just know everyone wants to have a big discussion about brave or Firefox. I don’t particularly care. Brave blocks it out of the box.
No one was talking about crypto bro ad company brave (or Firefox) till you brought it up randomly.
I still dont understand why YouTube removed banner ads from on top of the video. The ones on the homepage and side feed, I can kind of understand. They want to show more videos to people faster. Sure. But the on-video banner ads were quite unobtrusive imo. Like I didn’t even close them very often in the olden’ days when I didn’t use an adblocker all the time.
Excuse me, are you insinuating Tai Chi Walking is a scam?
What happened to actually having a sales person vet this shit?
That costs money. Why would they do that when it turns out that they don’t actually have to?
Because in the end they are not even selling anything except accidental clicks at the expense of alienating their userbase and destroying any trust.
I realised this myself when i had to watch some youtube video in a browser without adblock. There was literal porn as an ad. The second of two was some hentai game, but at least it was half blurred. I have no idea who used that browser to get those targeted ads, it was a shared computer.
Even the companies displaying the ads can’t always tell why a particular ad was displayed to a particular person.
Thats the thing.
They used to know.
Because instead of shitty algorythms, some sales person would go out and be lke “hey Ford, want to advertise on our car website?”
It took me years to accept that mid video sponsor ads are just… a thing now, and it ultimately makes little sense for me to just give a blanket ‘nope’ to everyone who uses them…
We thought we could build a digital utopia, and laughed off ‘the corpos will buy all of it’ as fanciful cyberpunk doomer hysteria.
… well… turns out that wasn’t hysteria.
Oh well. At least I can more easily conceptualize myself as something like ‘down on his luck shadowrunner’, rofl.
The old logic from the 90s still holds -> the more pernicious the ads, the less you should want to be there.
That it all got functionally digitally enclosed and normalized doesn’t change that… you just gotta deal with the terror of knowing most people these days just literally are programmed by advertisements and algorithms.
I never see ads almoat anywhere, I have layers of blocking, PiHole, UBlock Origin, Ghostery, often use a VPN, NextDNS on the phone, a few other plug ins.
Sponsorblock
+1 for Sponsorblock
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