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Does pihole block Facebook ads on Facebook.com, google ads on YouTube.com?

• conchy 7y ago
  nope
• cameronbrown 7y ago
  And to be honest, that's probably not a bad thing. Majority here are worried about cross site tracking and not advertising itself.
  • hrunt 7y ago
    Citation needed. In all seriousness, I think the performance issue of ad-blocking is much more beneficial to me than the cross-site tracking. While cross-site tracking may end up being more nefarious or theoretically worse, the slowdown in reading and interaction is a definite real-world pain solved by blocking ads, even same-site ones.
    • cameronbrown 7y ago
      Performance too. Honestly I'm not citing anything it's just my personal opinion. I have no issues with advertising beyond privacy, performance, and obviously advertising overload (there is a limit).
  • danShumway 7y ago
    I'm worried about advertising itself. I believe pervasive, omnipresent advertising is bad for society, even if it's native, and even if it respects people's privacy. Even in the real world, if there was some way of blocking billboards or posters on the subway, I'd be all for it. I really don't like companies inserting themselves into my life without my permission. I don't know how typical that is -- almost certainly people like me are a minority, but I suspect that there's a non-trivial number of people who feel the same.
    • cameronbrown 7y ago
      Native advertising is especially worse and it will only grow more prolific with ad blocking. I'd rather have display ads like we've got now just to avoid having to do mental gymnastics to check if an article is an advertisement or not. At least with the current situation things are separated.