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Who raw-dogs the internet without an adblocker? Have some standards.
by ceejayoz 1y ago
Who raw-dogs the internet without an adblocker? Have some standards.
- mort96 1y agoI use uBlock Origin (the full fat version in Firefox, not the lite version). It doesn't help, because the pop-ups aren't ads. There's one asking me if I wanna be spied on, one asking me to subscribe or sign in, and one huge one telling me that there's currently a discount on subscriptions.
- ceejayoz 1y agoI've got uBlock Origin on Firefox desktop too, and none of those show. Turn on more of the filter lists in the settings - especially the stuff in the "Cookie notices" and "Annoyances" sections.
- erikerikson 1y agoRumor has it that some people saw the "ads pay for it all" business model and accepted the deal because they wanted the Internet to be sustainable.
- ceejayoz 1y agoI mean, that's a two-sided deal. "You watch ads, you read content". But that deal has been more and more broken by the ad networks and websites; a lot of sites are unnavigable without an adblocker now. The days of plain text Google AdWords are long, long gone.
- XorNot 1y agoIf you don't actually buy anything then you're not sponsoring anything. In fact generating ad views and not purchasing things from them reduces the value of ads to the website.
- slg 1y agoYour logic is built on the common misconception that the only ad that has any value is the last ad you see before purchase.
- Workaccount2 1y agoThe people making it still worthwhile to post content online.
- mikestew 1y agoPi-hole and ad blocker, and I still repro.
- ceejayoz 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816069