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Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by Nadya »

guntars wrote: post #52
TACIXAT wrote: post #5

Everyone should install Millennials to Snake People. It's a great addon that makes the internet way better. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-sna...

Is no one else concerned about granting this extension a permission to "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit"? This is a joke extension and nothing is stopping the author from selling it to someone who might have more sinister uses for it.

It needs that permission to read the page and perform the text swap. Text swap is change data, the DOM needs to be read.

This is a big reason to support open source add-ons (not sure if add-on is, might be since it was forked? No idea.) You can see if they're doing anything malicious on the side.

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by Aldo_MX »

eistrati wrote: post #19
fatlasp wrote: post #13

I temporarily disabled ghostery yesterday and ended up visiting the LA Times. Without an adblocker the loading / performance / experience was horrific! Long live the ad-free web!

Would you use LA Times if we'd convince them to implement the following user experience: https://demo.adtechmedia.io/atm-core/nytimes/www.nytimes.com... NOTE: Above article is from NY Times and is ONLY for demo purposes :)

I would rather read the article first, and leave a tip if the article was noteworthy.

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by coldpie »

eistrati wrote: post #19
fatlasp wrote: post #13

I temporarily disabled ghostery yesterday and ended up visiting the LA Times. Without an adblocker the loading / performance / experience was horrific! Long live the ad-free web!

Would you use LA Times if we'd convince them to implement the following user experience: https://demo.adtechmedia.io/atm-core/nytimes/www.nytimes.com... NOTE: Above article is from NY Times and is ONLY for demo purposes :)

I use uBlock Origin and NoScript and your link looks identical to the original NYT link. So, no change for me.

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by chadgeidel »

philipkglass wrote: post #55

I browse most of the time without extensions other than a cookie editor, since I've encountered a number of weird bugs in my company's own product that turned out not to be bugs but weird interactions with browser extensions I was running. I also read a lot of news articles both on big sites like the WSJ and whatever regional news outlets turn up in my news searches. That is to say that ad networks should (presumably…

I often joke that I'll believe "The machines are taking over" immediately after I get a relevant ad on Facebook. Of all places - they should know exactly what I like and what I would buy. They haven't got a clue.

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by libraryatnight »

Kiro wrote: post #28
jobu wrote: post #20

As the most technical person in my network of friends and family I'm often the one they go to for computer help. For years one of the first things I do if I touch their computers is install uBlock. Lately a couple of them have gotten new computers and mentioned that they think it came with a virus because there ads everywhere on the internet.

I hope you inform them before installing it. If someone installed something that's tampering with my browsing experience without telling me I would be pretty mad.

I agree, especially since even ublock occasionally gets caught by those 'you're using an ad-blocker' ads that tries to get you to either disable it or subscribe. That would really confuse, say, my mom if she had no idea she had an ad-blocker.

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by ryandrake »

If you're in my house and got your IP address from my DHCP server, you're ad blocking without even having to lift a finger, thanks to dnsmasq and several volunteer-maintained ad blocking hosts files. Similar method to what Pi-hole [1] does. It doesn't get everything but it's a nice default starting point.

1: http://jacobsalmela.com/block-millions-ads-network-wide-with...

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by eistrati »

buckbova wrote: post #33
eistrati wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you use LA Times if we'd convince them to implement the following user experience: https://demo.adtechmedia.io/atm-core/nytimes/www.nytimes.com... NOTE: Above article is from NY Times and is ONLY for demo purposes :)

The typical article I spend The donate 5 cent thing might work for some but I'd never want to tie a payment method to my browser.

Agree on short reading articles. How about longer size content? And have a direct correlation / Math formula between how much time you need to "invest" consuming the content vs how much time you need to "spend" up-front in unlocking the content: micro-payments vs ads. Would that work for you?

And, regarding the payment, would you connect with Apple Pay or Amazon Payments or PayPal instead of providing publishers your card directly?

Re: Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker

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Post by coldpie »

tdb7893 wrote: post #47
saosebastiao wrote: post #23

I'm not where my position is relative to the rest of my generation, but for me it's all about practicality. I have no vendetta against advertising and I don't think it is inherently evil. I don't think it makes for a good content publishing model, but that is the content publishers choice. What bothers me is how intrusive and obnoxious they are. Large ads that pop up or take up 3/4 of the screen, can't click out beca…

I don't have any moral problem with ads and companies need to make money so I don't have an adblocker and I just don't visit sites with obnoxious ads. 90% of the sites I visit (i.e. google, facebook, stackoverflow, reddit, hackernews, xkcd, netflix, etc...) don't have annoying ads. Oddly enough the only times I have really regretted turning off my ad blocker is when I'm watching videos where an unskippable ad longer…

> I don't have any moral problem with ads and companies need to make money so I don't have an adblocker and I just don't visit sites with obnoxious ads.

How do you keep track? What about drive-by exploits that could infect your computer on first visit? Or mobile ads that redirect to the app store?

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