Microblog Memes

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.

Real.

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?

Wait, does the average person not use an ad blocker? Like am I within the 40%? 30%? i have really no idea

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm surprised people are capable of tolerating the shit it's fucking awful

When I have to go off my network because some website won't load because I am blocking their trackers I get sick from the AI ads, its gross. Truth in advertising is dead so so dead. They are not even trying to make products look real anymore.

I won't allow list the things the site needs, I would rather just go on mobile for a min. I wish I could set DNS settings per browser so I could spin up a lighter adblock that will allow the sites I have to rarely access and then just have a dedicated browser for.

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.

I had this experience at work last year. I shared some article that was relevant to work and half the people complained that it had a full page ad they couldn’t dismiss. The other half of us used Adblock, apparently.

I imagine that if you walk around barefoot enough then the random weeds stop consciously bothering you

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. 🤷

I literally had this thought yesterday. I'm so glad I know how to use technology. I have no idea how folks raw dog the internet today.

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.