AdNauseam

Its a fork of uBlock:Origin with a fun twist.

It's not piracy to shut your ears and plug your eyes whenever an ad is playing ... at least not yet. Give the lobbyists a few weeks.

Every day brings us closer to All-Despising Baby Skull.

In addition to all of those strategies, I also make a mental note to never buy whatever product is being hawked, or any other product from that company. It's automatic; I have an almost Pavlovian vomit response when I see/hear certain brand names thanks to their advertising. I'm also weary of competitor's products, because I wouldn't put it past those slimy bastards to own both companies and present them as alternatives to each other.

I got banned from twitter for a week back before it went nazi by shit talking every ad it put in front of me.

I genuinely haven't seen any ads for 20 years now except in the odd waiting room or someone else's house. It's surprising how creepy and strange they are once you're a few years removed from them. You start to notice parallels between cult members and people who don't avert their eyes from ads.

Advertising is one of the most prolific environmental pollutants of economic activity, and needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

Advertising is a mental hazard that must be constantly managed. It's draining to defend against as it is almost everyone at all times. I keep advertising to a minimum in my home and I can feel the invasiveness of it when I'm not there, I've definitely lost tolerance for advertising over the years and will discard something every quickly if it shows up. Adblock at all times on the net.

I actively avoid products I see to many ads for

The worst is the unmutable advertisements at the gas pump.

Some you can mute, if you press the correct hidden button. But more and more I'm finding them without the mute button. So I start pressing random buttons and combinations of buttons, until something works.

The pump by my house goes into a maintenance mode when you press a certain button combination, and then it tells you to go inside to pay (as if I hadn't already swiped my card). But the ads are muted, and the charge still shows up on my account, the correct amount and everything, so it's paid for. I don't go in. The pump automatically leaves maintenance mode when I finish pumping. No harm no foul.

I try to avoid stations I know have ads, but I travel a lot for work, so it's hard.

I have very few ads in my life, because I hate them with a passion. As an autistic person, ads don't even work on me to the same extent, and I hate having to sit through them.

I have opted into a government program, that means I don't recieve ads or "free newspapers" in my letterbox. I use special webapps with integrated adblock and curator extensions on my browsers, and even custom scripts using scriptmonkey to get it away. On my TV I run SmartTube, which not only removes ads, but also automatically skips sponsor and other filler from videos, as well as removes clickbait titles where possible using DeArrow.

I run Linux, I have set up all my devices to use adblocking DNS, and I have run a PiHole for years. The only thing in my home that shows ads at this point, is my google TV that will suggest a show on viaplay or prime or whatever, and it is the only thing I cannot get rid of.

The reason I dislike ads, is that these corporations are fucking scum. They collude to ruin people's self-esteem, and to overflood the market with needless materialist bullshit that we don't need, by exploiting our deepest insecurities. As AI becomes more normalized, it will get even more insidious. People talk to their chatbots like they are their friends, and soon those chatbots will subtly manipulate them into buying hair products that don't work, because they see a picture in your photos gallery of you slightly balding, and see you talked to it about feeling insecure about your appearence lately.

Ending my rant with a quote by banksy:

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

That’s exactly what I do, and I wield adblockers with the fury of merging supermassive black holes.

[stands on soap box]

Advertisment is theft.

It is theft of my time and attention, the neurons that have to fire for my brain to process the message and then mentally bin the thought. I value the messages of people trying to sell me things so little, I would request they pay me to sit through their drivil. I have only so many hours on the moist spinning mud ball we call earth that I wish 0% of it being told to buy things.

Back in the day, when the internet was wild and free, advertisment online was a means of allowing hosts and websites to keep the lights on becore e-commerce had its sea legs, and that was the social agreement. Your site hosts ads, I get access to the site, captialism still happened, but it was simple. Then ads loaded by third party sources were not vetted by the trusted site you were visiting and became a vector for malware.

Now, you had ad and ad-free tiers of paid services, you pay your cable bill to watch 22 min. of content every block, 26% of the content on cable is not the content your paying for. Its sick, and now its infested the digital social spaces where people just make the infomericals at home in exchange for free stuff further poisioning the well of trust for interacting online.

[/Gets down from soapbox]

Sorry, I hate ads, moreso that most, but on the level amongst this crowd. To quote the great Miracle Max from the Princess Bride (RIP Rob Reiner) "Life is pain highness. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something"

advertisers can gargle my ballsack

Agree. Honestly, websites just feel so much cleaner without ads. Like, ads are literal visual pollution and I hate it.

There should be a 100% tax on every company's advertising budget. For every dollar they spend on advertising they should have to pay just as much.

If you block ads from loading, you are using less processing power and thus less energy. Everyone should make the green choice of adding adblock to every browser. Save the planet.

Don't claim your relationship with ads is "actively hostile" if your actions can be described as "skipping" and "muting".

You should be blocking. I don't skip or mute anything, ever, because I don't allow ads into my life.

Firefox + uBlock origin, nextDNS + a shit ton of blocking lists, revanced, metrolist and now i forgot that ads even exist.

con:
I always get traumatised when I use a device that isn't mine.

See also: people trying to convince me to give websites money to avoid the ads after I tell them how to block the ads entirely.

My brother keeps trying to get me to get a youtube subscription. I just told you I don’t get ads! Why would you give google money? It is your moral obligation to bleed as much money from that company as possible!

Dude claims he is more anti ad than most yet does not mention using an adblocker. Curious.

I cannot even describe how I feel about advertisers. Truly the lowliest, most sycophantic and pathetic scum on the earth. The MICROSECOND that an ad starts to play, I begin repeating under my breath "fuck you fuck you fuck you. I hope you fucking die." If I see your ad, know for certain, that should I ever meet you in real life, I will most assuredly remove your windpipe from your neck with a rusty fucking nail, so no one must ever listen to another mindless thing you have to say. Your existence is a net loss for all living things. It is an affront to basic decency and it my deepest desire that everyone involved catches fire and fucking dies.

Fuck advertising.

Teach 👏 your 👏 kids 👏 to 👏 hate 👏 ads 👏

Ads are basically someone rubbing diarrhea directly on your eyeballs

Remember kids, advertising is just the graffiti of the rich.

I dont know if this is the community to have the discussion but im really battling with my stance on advertising logically. I hate it, I block all ads, I hate seeing them and I dont want them to exist. Ok but why shouldnt it exist? Its harmful, invasive an unsolicited just like this thread mentions. But its also such a baseline human thing that I cant see a way to get rid of, if I tell my friend about something i brought im advertising to them etc. If we ban paid advertising will companies invade discussion to "organically" mention prodcuts.

I really want a good argument for why it shouldn't exist and how a world without is a better place.

At the bare minimum there needs to be restrictions on how invasive ads can be and maybe that would solve things?

I only ever witness an ad on my computer when there's something new that isn't in my list of black listed domains on my pihole server.

In that case, a few clicks later they are on the "lol, no" list and I never see them again.

No smart tvs are allowed on my Wi-Fi. Instead they have tiny Linux PCs that let me watch whatever I please, ad free.

My mobile phone is graphene OS. My mobile browser has an ad blocker and works perfectly on things like YouTube.

News articles blocked by ads AREN'T when viewed via archive.is.

None of these things are hard enough that a beginner can't do the same.

I DARE you to do the same.