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I know I'd pay just to never see an ad again because I don't care about them at all. If one slips through the cracks I do whatever I can to suppress it as soon
by throwamon 4y ago
I know I'd pay just to never see an ad again because I don't care about them at all. If one slips through the cracks I do whatever I can to suppress it as soon as possible while actively denying any form of sensorial engagement with it. I suppose this is true for many people and paying might be more convenient than using adblockers, installing alternative apps, using PiHoles...
- passerby1 4y agoUsing adblock is indeed very convenient. Enable browser extension and forget about all web annoyances. Calm and peece. Google Ad Premium disables google ads only (or most of them?), while other ad nets (avg more than 80 cookies on every major news site!) will continue to annoy.
- fartcannon 4y agoUblock Origin and never see an ad again. I can't believe there are still people who don't do this. You can even do it on your mobile device if you use android and firefox.
- IgorPartola 4y agoIt works pretty well but (a) not on mobile and (b) not on blogspam.
- gzer0 4y agoPaying google for google premium wouldn’t help with the blogspam
- Nextgrid 4y agoIf Google's only revenue was from users they would have more incentive making features that encourage those users to keep paying them.
- nvrspyx 4y agoContent blockers on iOS work well for removing ads on Google. I'm not sure if there's an Android equivalent. The catch for iOS is that you have to use Safari, unless the browser has an ad blocker built-in. It won't solve blog spam either.
- OJFord 4y agoThe Android 'equivalent' is just using the uBlock Origin add-on in Firefox as usual, not some new Apple-invented category of app and hamstrung browsers that are all basically Safari.
- scarface74 4y agoGood luck with using that “equivalent” in an embedded web view. Besides, if I care about my privacy, why would I want to use an ad blocker that has access to my web browsing history? iOS content blockers tell Safari what to block and don’t have access to where you go.
- deadbunny 4y agoAndroid uses the default browser for webview. If you have Firefox + uBlock Origin as your default browser you get ad blocking in your webview.
- scarface74 4y agoBy “embedded web view”, I don’t mean when you click on a link it switches to another app. I mean something like an RSS reader where you view a web page inside the hosted app. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView > Mozilla uses GeckoView to power Firefox for Android, Firefox Reality, Firefox Focus, and other Android apps. GeckoView serves a similar purpose to Android's built-in WebView, but it has its own APIs and is not a drop in replacement.
- yissp 4y ago
- karolist 4y ago(a) mobile -> VPN -> server with PiHole
- thisismyaccoun7 4y agoKiwi browser allows for full add-ons including ublock
- fartcannon 4y ago... You can use ublock origin on Firefox on mobile. Its part of the reason to favour an open OS like Android, over iOS.
- b15h0p 4y agoThere are ad blockers on iOS, too. They are implemented in such a way that they can not spy on you—they simply provide a „block list“ that is executed by the browser. Works pretty well in my experience.
- fartcannon 4y agoThat's good. I don't trust Apple though and I have no way to verify Apple isn't spying on me. In fact I'm pretty sure they are.
- HWR_14 4y agoUltimately, you have to trust someone. Unless you write your own compilers in machine code, and get the source, review it, etc. you have to trust someone along the chain. Hell, Intel/AMD could be fucking with you via the CPU. If I have to trust someone, I trust the multi-trillion dollar company built on privacy. If they are found to be spying on people, the hit to the wealth of everyone who works there will be massive.
- fartcannon 4y agoThey're built on advertising. The same advertising that makes you think they're not spying on you.
- HWR_14 4y agoApple doesn't sell advertising, nor do I think they spy on me. Or become famous and probably dialed rich by publishing the details of how they do so
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- wruza 4y agoAdguard does the same good job on ios as ublock origin does on a pc. Even on youtube.com. No third-party browsers, no mandatory vpn. Just install it and enable its rules in safari settings.
- fartcannon 4y agoThat's good stuff. Can you personally compile and install it on iOS?
- wruza 4y agoThis rhetoric only makes sense if you’re reviewing every update of uBlock your device receives. My concern is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31380528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31380528
- dr_dshiv 4y agoI literally feel bad. Is there a name for that disorder? Excess corporate empathy? Idk
- fartcannon 4y agoI'd call it marketing.
- flanking_pajama 4y agoI'd feel bad if advertising law wasn't a joke, and ads weren't basically an aggressive waste of time/money as a result. Like man, I always hear "so many people make their living on this" but uh, maybe if false advertising law is practically unenforced and most ads are practically usually lies pushed by the already established winners in their industry... Which it certainly seems to be, then. I find it hard to feel too bad, especially when people in the advertising business are probably not going to end up street beggars if things suddenly changed. edit: although that "makes a living" argument may go wayside a little with the inevitable AI-generated, focus-group tested future we'll be living in. Hmm.
- ThunderSizzle 4y agoDo you feel bad when you don't read every marketing junk mail you receive?
- muzani 4y agoI consider the ads to be part of an unwritten contract. I get free content, they get to throw ads at me. Junk mail is not a part of that contract.
- Teever 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
- dr_dshiv 4y agoTruth
- slotrans 4y agoUBlock Origin, as awesome as it is, does not remove ads from Google search results.
- andrei_says_ 4y agoHow does one remove YouTube app ads on iOS? Already have pihole on my home network and unlock on all non-iOS browsers.
- b15h0p 4y agoI think using an adblocker and uninstalling the YouTube app should be sufficient. The downside being that the playback quality is worse (720p max, I think).
- ipaddr 4y agoMost top videos are 1080/60 some higher. Does anyone upload 360 or 180 videos on here?
- yonaguska 4y agoI simply don't use the YouTube app on mobile. I use YouTube via the brave browser which automatically blocks ads. Not the best experience since you can't background videos playing, but it works for me.
- backerei 4y agoTry turning on Background video playback in Settings in General category. At least it works for me.
- shaoonb 4y agoAdGuard and use the web version of YouTube.
- eins1234 4y agoAs a YouTube Premium subscriber who sees no ads, I find sponsor segments to be the real bane of my existence.
- indecisive_user 4y agoCrowd sourced extension to skip over those parts - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...
- Seasonwreckage 4y ago
- lordnacho 4y agoCan you imagine what would happen when "advertisers" discover they can make money by annoying people? Micro digital muggings will become a thing.
- spaetzleesser 4y agoI use Brave Browser. I am always shocked to see how bad the internet is for users without ad blocker. I also totally forgot that YouTube has annoying ads.
- peri 4y agoBe careful: NetOps/NetEng/NetSRE knows to look here too. 23!eris::::::::, NANOG is not the only cabal.