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Seriously, why aren't most people using adblock these days (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I genuinely don't know how people manage without ad-blockers and other declutterers. The amount of utter shit that gets in the way of what you're trying to look at is mind boggling.

Do you want cookies? Do you want to share your details with 1049 trusted data partners? How about the top half of the screen taken by a video ad with a close button that isn't going to work? How about a redirect to something else entirely? How about the back button not working unless you spam it really quick?

This is a war, and we didn't start it.

[โ€“] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

There's also the fact that on mobile ads use up your data. I'm not paying for a data plan so advertisers can use it to shove ads down my throat because I wanted to check the weather. I've used the mobile brave browser for a few years now and I will never go back. I don't go through nearly as much mobile data as I did prior to using ad blockers.

Plus, putting ublock on my PC made youtube usable again. No more ads that are longer than the video I'm trying to watch.

I don't know how people tolerate the constant ads either. It was driving me insane and genuinely pissed me off.