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I never used an adblocker until recently when Youtube started showing those fucking World of Tanks ads and ads for similar games from the same fucking company.
by RandomInteger4 10y ago
I never used an adblocker until recently when Youtube started showing those fucking World of Tanks ads and ads for similar games from the same fucking company.
Many of you don't understand how that could be a huge nuissance, because your systems are powerful enough to shrug it off, but for my old system, those fucking ads would freeze up the UI of the page.
Even with my new system, many of the ads offered enough of a slowdown to the experience of using many sites on top of sometimes causing the system to crash completely that an adblocker became necessary.
- raybb 10y agoIf your company is really that slow because of adds you might want to think about blocking some ad providers with your host file. I tested it with a verge page and it went from about ~50mb down to ~10mb. (Disclaimer it was 50mb because of an auto playing ad video)
- petre 10y agoOr a custom DNS cache if you want to block on all of your network. There is a Perl script on github that generates a local rule set for unbound using Dan Pollock's list. There are other services as well.