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The brooklinen ads are mortifying when I'm online in public

• codygman 20d ago
  Use an adblocker? That's what I do and why I don't even know what brooklinen is.
  • tanepiper 20d ago
    The web is becoming very hostile to ad blockers. I use a VPN and I've noticed more and more sites just being obnoxious with their popups and even just crashing the site completely in a loop (looking at you EuroNews)
    • walrus01 20d ago
      It doesn't solve everything but the 'full' desktop version of the ublock origin plugin runs just fine in Android on Firefox. I can't even imagine using any other mobile browser now. I don't know what the situation is for iphone platform stuff these days.
      • fl0id 20d ago
        and f.e. brave on ios
    • manyatoms 20d ago
      Try firefox, as chrome puts restrictions on what adblockers can do
    • loloquwowndueo 20d ago
      If a site doesn’t let me see it with my ad blocking enabled, I just go elsewhere.
      • bell-cot 20d ago
        This Even skimming the web could take up 1000X the hours I have in a day, and I really should spend more time exercising, and reading books, and with friends and family, and volunteering, and ...
    • Marsymars 20d ago
      I suspect it's not a real crash you're seeing, but rather a deceptive anti-adblocking script that redirects to a page that fraudulently claims to be a crash.
  • mischief6 20d ago
    abp in firefox doesn't really remove them. I've seen and reported multiple scummy popup-like looking ads like tfn and saw it again for weeks...
    • techjamie 20d ago
      Use ublock origin rather than ABP. ABP was dead the moment they sold out to "responsible" ads.
    • Telaneo 20d ago
      ABP as in adblock plus? Don't use that. Use Ublock Origin.
    • zelphirkalt 20d ago
      There may be gaps every now and then in block lists of ad blocking solutions, but besides that, you are using the wrong ad blocker. abp is not to be trusted to reliably block all ads it could. It has a different mission than uBlock Origin.
  • wnc3141 20d ago
    They sell bedsheets, with sort of a raunchy ad campaign. I had a adblocker but wound up uninstalling it when it became more of a hassle than it was worth.