People themselves have turned into ads since ads themselves don’t do their job.
Look at influencers.
Instagram used to be fun for someone to share their journey, now it’s ad…influencer…double ad…Triple influencer…Another ad…a real person sharing their journey…55 more influencer ads mixed with 29 actual ads.
Oh and the occasional OF girl who managed to flash some puss without it getting taken down.
I love when i bought something…(i assume) google thinks it’s a great idea to advertise that exact combination of products from the exact webshop on the next website i visit.
How much did tiktok ruin google’s brain to make them think that is going to be effective marketing?
I am shocked that its that low. But I manage a website for a sports league and they want to display sponsor logos on the front page. They were all getting caught by my adblocker. When I talked to other board members, none of them used ad blockers. I debated if I should try and adjust the urls or not.
The numbers were already up there, but I imagine YouTube’s recent campaign only drove them higher. More people than before are now aware that adblockers exist and they love using them.
Ad blocker is kind of a sad name for a content/spam filter, a vital security tool, but that’s what we got. Especially since browsers naively didn’t include filtering and block lists by default and they only became common as add-ons.
As a quick and easy alternative, you can set it to automatically open sites in reader mode. I’ve been trying that lately and it definitely helps although also mixed results where sites block part of their content from reader mode.
With automatic reader mode, I click to hide reader much less often than I formerly clicked to enable it
That is a free service and I really like it make sure you read their website basically when you sign up which requires no login it’ll give you a unique dns entry to use as your DNS
The reason I like this one is it’s not just ad blocking it fixing a bunch of anti-tracking and other features
That’s yet another reason to use a DNS as blocker, and not let your browser use DNS over https.
I haven’t done it myself yet, but I figure that sooner or later I’ll need to update my router to block all outbound DNS that doesn’t go through my DNS ad blocker. Some devices try to use their own hardcoded DNS to get around them…
A multi-layered approach is the best approach. My pi-hole blocks advertising domains, malware domains, etc. That helps tremendously with all the “smart” devices that include DVRs, streaming devices, etc. where you can’t install something like ublock. I also make sure something like ublock is installed wherever possible.
DNS blocking is about the only way to block ads & tracking on things like streaming devices. You can’t install Firefox or uBlock on an Apple TV for example. You can block ads on many of the apps on the Apple TV as well as all the telemetry they try to collect with a well configured pi-hole and selected DNS blocklists.
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If the ads are unobtrusive and interesting, and not clearly based on harvested personal data, I wouldn’t mind.
Unfoorrrtunately…
I thought the text said “stop AIDS” but practically the same thing.
Ublock Origin, privacy badger, pihole for home DNS… Can’t live without them
What does pihole do that Ublock does not?
Every non-PC, non-web browser on your network also reaps the benefit.
I remember the good ol days when the ads would lag up the loading of the page
Now they all load first and cover the entire content of the page because screw usability
Looking at you, every news outlet site ever
People themselves have turned into ads since ads themselves don’t do their job.
Look at influencers.
Instagram used to be fun for someone to share their journey, now it’s ad…influencer…double ad…Triple influencer…Another ad…a real person sharing their journey…55 more influencer ads mixed with 29 actual ads.
Oh and the occasional OF girl who managed to flash some puss without it getting taken down.
I love when i bought something…(i assume) google thinks it’s a great idea to advertise that exact combination of products from the exact webshop on the next website i visit.
How much did tiktok ruin google’s brain to make them think that is going to be effective marketing?
Mankind truly is on the way down.
I doubt these numbers. Almost nobody I know uses one on mobile
Then there’s those of us who uninstalled the YouTube app and installed Kiwi so we can install the uBlock Origin chrome plug-in 😅
Firefox has plug-ins available out of the box on Android, including uBlock Origin.
Kiwi is a browser with plug-in support out of the box but it’s always good to have options, thanks :)
Oh, I seem to have misinterpreted your message then. That’s pretty neat
I am shocked that its that low. But I manage a website for a sports league and they want to display sponsor logos on the front page. They were all getting caught by my adblocker. When I talked to other board members, none of them used ad blockers. I debated if I should try and adjust the urls or not.
Ublock: Origin plugin on each browser, and/or a proper piHole style DNS blocker. Anything else is probably capturing your data to sell.
Not entirely surprised.
The numbers were already up there, but I imagine YouTube’s recent campaign only drove them higher. More people than before are now aware that adblockers exist and they love using them.
Read it as BLOCK AIDS
It’s the same
I dislike the fact that “ads” can also include crapware being injected into my computer (viruses, tracking cookies, mysterious scripts, etc).
Highly unlikely, but hopefully one day.
Ad blocker is kind of a sad name for a content/spam filter, a vital security tool, but that’s what we got. Especially since browsers naively didn’t include filtering and block lists by default and they only became common as add-ons.
Some folks still raw dog the net? Wrap that shit up
How do I do that on iPhone?
AdGuard still works well but there are other safari extensions. At home I use eero ad blocking which works well for a maintenance free blocker.
I use FireFox on my phone.
Some VPNs like Mullvad actually have an option in their app to block ads, gambling stuff, etc.
They don’t catch everything, but work pretty well.
I use a Safari extension called Purify. It’s in the App Store. Works pretty well for me.
(I also use a pi-hole at home)
Similar for me - 1Blocker and pi-hole at home. Then I also VPN to my home when outside to continue the pi-hole filter.
I also use iCloud relay with non-precise location.
As a quick and easy alternative, you can set it to automatically open sites in reader mode. I’ve been trying that lately and it definitely helps although also mixed results where sites block part of their content from reader mode.
With automatic reader mode, I click to hide reader much less often than I formerly clicked to enable it
Set your DNS to next DNS https://nextdns.io
Edit: Ah sorry didn’t realize this was already answered.
You answered better and thanks for the link. Is this a free service?
I’m using adguard but I’ve heard the owners are possibly unscrupulous.
That is a free service and I really like it make sure you read their website basically when you sign up which requires no login it’ll give you a unique dns entry to use as your DNS
The reason I like this one is it’s not just ad blocking it fixing a bunch of anti-tracking and other features
Ghostery addon for safari is solid.
I’ll check it out. Thanks.
AdGuard works well.
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Unlike when your friends or parents might raw dog, you can put that adblock condom on their computers for them.
Leopards, face etc
Don’t a majority of them also use Chrome? Because they’re going to find that their adblockers are less and less effective.
That’s yet another reason to use a DNS as blocker, and not let your browser use DNS over https.
I haven’t done it myself yet, but I figure that sooner or later I’ll need to update my router to block all outbound DNS that doesn’t go through my DNS ad blocker. Some devices try to use their own hardcoded DNS to get around them…
DNS-based ad blocking is unfortunately much less effective. It’s still better than nothing though, that’s for sure.
A multi-layered approach is the best approach. My pi-hole blocks advertising domains, malware domains, etc. That helps tremendously with all the “smart” devices that include DVRs, streaming devices, etc. where you can’t install something like ublock. I also make sure something like ublock is installed wherever possible.
I mean… you could just use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Works great.
DNS blocking is about the only way to block ads & tracking on things like streaming devices. You can’t install Firefox or uBlock on an Apple TV for example. You can block ads on many of the apps on the Apple TV as well as all the telemetry they try to collect with a well configured pi-hole and selected DNS blocklists.
True, but using a computer with an adblocker and a second gen Chromecast (which you don’t need Chrome for) also eliminates that.
Why shouldn’t you let your browser use DNS over HTTPS?
Because then it can bypass your ad-blocking DNS
DNS over HTTPS was a great idea for privacy if left in your hands, but immediately ran into the reality of intrusive advertising