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Use an adblocker. I save about 25 gigs and hours of my time every month. * https://www.ublockorigin.com https://www.ublockorigin.com * I block much more than
by ffpip 6y ago
Use an adblocker. I save about 25 gigs and hours of my time every month. *
https://www.ublockorigin.com https://www.ublockorigin.com
* I block much more than ads.
- iamlolz 6y agoOut of curiosity, what else do you use it for?
- kubanczyk 6y agoNot a parent, but it's super-easy to block any element I find distracting with about two clicks. For example looking at en.wikipedia.org I can just remove that COVID box. Scalable? No. Smart? Eeeyuh... Satisfying? Hell yes.
- rektide 6y agopower & freedom, the things native apps never ever permit us.
- SV_BubbleTime 6y agoRight, I’ll often make design choices to remove a whole div I don’t need. Your most recent stories I might be interested in that takes up 20% of my screen? No thanks!
- goodcharles 6y agoBlocking Drift Chatbots (those annoying things that change Title in browser windows, make noise, obstruct page content)
- rasz 6y agoYou can use ubo filters to overwrite styles, saves you one extension
- jpcooper 6y agoYouTube comments.
- ffpip 6y agoI spend a lot of time on Youtube, and their recommendations are addictive, so I blocked the sidebar that recommends next videos. I block scripts on news sites since they serve no purpose.It removes things like popups, autoplaying videos and comments. And I have so many custom filters set up to block cookie prompts, annoyances and other stuff.
- throwawayadtech 6y agoOn news websites, beyond the typical heavy JS ads, uBlock is super useful for removing 1P static ads (e.g. New Yorker "subscribe and get a free tote" linked to as a newyorker.com image from next to an article) as well as things like sticky title bars and "top articles" widgets to declutter the reading experience.
- ksrm 6y agoI don't use Facebook much any more but a lot of the noise on there can be blocked (the ads which are conveniently labelled as sponsored, and "suggested for you"). They've seemingly gone out of their way to make this difficult by putting each letter of "Sponsored" in its own div, but you can make a filter based on the aria-label instead.
- Ashanmaril 6y agouBlock is what's keeping me from switching to Safari (which is so much nicer to use on a Mac) It seems like most people who use Safari use full system-level ad blockers like Wipr. But I was also Googling around and found some complaints about Wipr, like it taking forever to be updated to block YouTube ads when they switch how they're displayed, or not being as good at getting around ad-block detection on certain sites.
- mbirth 6y agoI've recently switched to macOS and Safari with Wipr. I don't see much difference to my Firefox setup with AdNauseam (uBlock Origin) before. More on the contrary - my selected lists were very aggressive and I had various sites where I had to disable uBlock to see them properly. With Safari and Wipr, everything seems to just work.
- gorhill 6y ago> I don't see much difference to my Firefox setup with AdNauseam (uBlock Origin) AdNauseam is not uBlock Origin, you can not use AdNauseam's results to judge uBlock Origin.
- mbirth 6y agoAs a direct fork, it’s currently 2282 commits ahead, 586 commits behind your uBlock. That amounts to about the commits since uBlock 1.29.0 - which is exactly the version they’re claiming to use. But yes, who knows what they’ve changed.
- mbirth 6y agoIf you can afford it, I'd suggest switching to AdNauseam (https://adnauseam.io https://adnauseam.io). They're using the same uBlock Origin engine, but ads are downloaded and clicked on in the background. This way you still generate revenue for site owners. But since this extension is banned from the Chrome Web Store, you'll have to install it manually there. On Firefox it's available from their add-on store.
- highstep 6y agoThis seems very hostile to small businesses who pay for those ads.
- mbirth 6y agoWell, you can decide. Do you care more about the sites you visit frequently or the businesses that use Google Ads?
- pjc50 6y agoWhat percentage of google ads are from small businesses? What percentage of google ads targeted to me are from small businesses? (I've no way of guessing as I just block all of them)
- greenshackle2 6y agoYeah they didn't mention the stated purpose of AdNauseam, which is explicitly hostile to ad networks and advertisers. EDIT: From their paper: "The second goal is to provide a means of proactive engagement, allowing users an avenue for expression of their dissatisfaction with current advertising mechanisms to those in control of such systems. In the case of AdNauseam, this expression has an interventional aspect, as the software actively attempts to disrupt the economic model that drives advertising surveillance" http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_23.pdf http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_23.pdf
- JustFinishedBSG 6y agoNearly all Ad Networks do not use Click-Through as their payment metric anymore