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Why would you browse the web without an ad blocker?
by driverdan 2y ago
Why would you browse the web without an ad blocker?
- drekipus 2y agoThink about the hell that most people go through, who have no concept of an adblocker.
- jvans 2y agoThe internet is unusable without ublock origin and privacy bafger. When I use my friend's computers without ad block I have to fix that first
- Xxfireman 2y agoFor Iphone users, I have been quite happy browsing in Safari using Wipr. It is incredible how long I went w/o it.
- iamspoilt 2y agoI have been super happy downloading the free adguard dns profile on my iphone and blocking ads across the entire spectrum. Makes reading on internet so much better. Here is the link if anyone is wondering. https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
- Gud 2y agoThanks for sharing, good advice!
- Hnrobert42 2y agoI will check it out. I like Firefox Focus because in addition to built in blocking, it restricts me to one tab. Remarkably, that has never been a problem.
- nosefurhairdo 2y agoBrave browser is nice, no extensions needed
- Terr_ 2y agoIn a way, the hell itself isn't as scary as the idea that the people trapped in it will start to believe that things can't be better.
- drekipus 2y agonot only that, but they'll believe the ads.
- Melting_Harps 2y ago> Think about the hell that most people go through, who have no concept of an adblocker. Mobile users mainly have no grasp of this, and that is what most people Globally have used to be on-bordered statistically speaking, and they don't know anything else--I was watching a friend show me a recipe online not too long ago on his 1200 iphone and when ad showed up I just looked perplexed to disgusted to him. I told him to get an adblock to avoid that, he simply locked at me and said he 'didn't want to pay for it' and I just let it go and watched the ad in silence. This is a person who spends an ungodly amount of time on tiktok as well, we were watching trending desert recipes and there are tons of them there that people want try so he justified all the ads he watches as 'market research.' I regret to say that this is the norm, the dude has a MSc in Structural/Civil Engineering from a reputable University so it's not a schooling thing, just more like of a 'not online before smartphone' kind of thing to me.
- heroprotagonist 2y agoThose sweet, sweet revenue generators, who keep the first page of search results irrelevant..
- jazzyjackson 2y agoBecause giving a third party extension access to the content of every website I visit is worse than having ads. There's no special permission required for a chrome extension to make a network request and exfiltrate data, you're just trusting the developer. Also reader mode mostly solves the issue.
- treyd 2y agouBlock Origin is free and open source software that doesn't phone home with your browsing data or anything silly like that.
- fragmede 2y agoManifoV3 brings the host_permissions field, and domains the extension wants to connect to be to be listed there. You still have to trust the developer, unless you download the extension and modify the manifest to remove the domains listed there, though may result in the extension not working.
- shepherdjerred 2y agoublock origin lite requires very few permissions
- eclectic29 2y agoI just installed AdGuard and the ads didn’t go away. What should I be uisng? I have an iPhone.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoWipr and 1Blocker, for me. Start with the former; it’s cheaper.
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoAdGuard is blocking all ads on the page for me. Maybe your configuration.
- Avisite 2y agoBrave browser for Iphone has good default adblocking