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Honestly, who here sees ads? My son owns a marketing firm and anytime I see his display it's shocking to me how different it looks than mine.

graypegg 3y ago
I worked a short while at Mindgeek (The pornhub holding company) and it was the first time I had every faced the internet without adblockers in a very long time. (Most of the work I was doing involved ads themselves.) Definitely was not "great" but also not the worst thing. Pretty quickly I regained whatever sky-scraper ad-blindness I had in the early 2000s.
- tennisflyi 3y ago
  They changed names recently, but yeah.
dgrin91 3y ago
> Honestly, who here sees ads? Your problem is selection bias. Here is HN, a group of mostly tech-oriented people who all have adblockers. The majority of people actually _don't_ have ad blockers, especially the older crowd.
- alwaysrunning 3y ago
  Agreed, but I was referring to those who visit HN.
- deleted 3y ago
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yreg 3y ago
I see ads when watching YouTube on my TV, since I have been too lazy to set up a pi hole so far. To be honest, I don't even mind it that much. At least I have some contact with what's going on out there in the ad space. But I watch 90+% of YT videos on other devices, not the TV.
- solarkraft 3y ago
  I recently accidentally opened a video in an incognito tab. I was angry after the 2 unskippable ads, but endured them. When, after a second of skipping through the video another 2 unskippable ads appeared I immediately switched back to my normal browser with uBlock Origin. What a joke. That stuff is unusable. I don't really use Youtube on my iPhone anymore because I know that any immediate gratification I could get from clicking on a video won't happen because of the ads. It's been very healthy for me in that way. I don't have a Pihole because they seem to be cracking down on it. When I want to watch Youtube videos on the TV, I mirror my Laptop's screen. I'm not even generally opposed to buying Youtube Premium either, the pricing is just off. And the tactics are just so scummy.
- acjacobson 3y ago
  Just FYI - Pihole won't block video ads on Youtube on your TV because it is limited to DNS blocking. Youtube is structured such that blocking the necessary domains would block all of Youtube.

graypegg 3y ago

I worked a short while at Mindgeek (The pornhub holding company) and it was the first time I had every faced the internet without adblockers in a very long time. (Most of the work I was doing involved ads themselves.) Definitely was not "great" but also not the worst thing. Pretty quickly I regained whatever sky-scraper ad-blindness I had in the early 2000s.

tennisflyi 3y ago
They changed names recently, but yeah.

dgrin91 3y ago

> Honestly, who here sees ads? Your problem is selection bias. Here is HN, a group of mostly tech-oriented people who all have adblockers. The majority of people actually _don't_ have ad blockers, especially the older crowd.

alwaysrunning 3y ago
Agreed, but I was referring to those who visit HN.
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yreg 3y ago

I see ads when watching YouTube on my TV, since I have been too lazy to set up a pi hole so far. To be honest, I don't even mind it that much. At least I have some contact with what's going on out there in the ad space. But I watch 90+% of YT videos on other devices, not the TV.

solarkraft 3y ago
I recently accidentally opened a video in an incognito tab. I was angry after the 2 unskippable ads, but endured them. When, after a second of skipping through the video another 2 unskippable ads appeared I immediately switched back to my normal browser with uBlock Origin. What a joke. That stuff is unusable. I don't really use Youtube on my iPhone anymore because I know that any immediate gratification I could get from clicking on a video won't happen because of the ads. It's been very healthy for me in that way. I don't have a Pihole because they seem to be cracking down on it. When I want to watch Youtube videos on the TV, I mirror my Laptop's screen. I'm not even generally opposed to buying Youtube Premium either, the pricing is just off. And the tactics are just so scummy.
acjacobson 3y ago
Just FYI - Pihole won't block video ads on Youtube on your TV because it is limited to DNS blocking. Youtube is structured such that blocking the necessary domains would block all of Youtube.