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

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Post by unclenoriega »

awjr wrote: post #43

I use an Ad Blocker, but happily unblock sites that ask if I see they are not running a large number of scripts. However the reason I installed the Ad Blocker in the first place is the way some local newspaper sites in the UK (run by http://www.localworld.co.uk/ ) will try and run 50+ scripts and make it almost impossible to read the article. It was a defence reaction to abusive web sites.

Just yesterday, I was about to turn off uBlock for a certain site, then I noticed it had blocked ~30 things on the page. No thanks.

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

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Post by post_break »

ryandrake wrote: post #66

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...

Whats the throughput? Can it handle speedy internet?

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

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Post by loeg »

ryandrake wrote: post #45
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.

Same here. It's become one of those standards steps that you take whenever you set up a new computer: 1. Install the OS (or remove the crap-ware from the manufacturer) 2. Install the OS updates/security packs/etc. 3. Install the anti-virus 4. Install the ad-blocker

Skip the anti-virus. It's not that there aren't viruses, it's just that anti-viruses don't protect against them and increase the attack surface.

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

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Post by marcosdumay »

mars4rp wrote: post #39

I hate Ads as much as next guy, but what will be the future of the internet without the Ads? where the revenue comes from? do we have to pay for every site that we use? I prefer a free content internet with reasonable amount of ads!!

Pay how much?

Everything changes depending on the price, both from the reader and publisher points of view.

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

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Post by philipkglass »

forgottenpass wrote: post #77
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…

it's that worst of them are aggressively misaligned with my interests and with the interests of anyone who's not a total fucking rube. It makes sense that so many are targeted at rubes. Who else do you think are actually clicking ads?

I will actually click ads if they show me things that interest me. I'm not a miser or trying to hide my true interests from advertisers. But weirdly I still seem to see more ads relevant to my interests when reading a niche print publication (e.g. Scuba Diving) than I do reading a newspaper article about diving online. The ad networks have had years to gather all sorts of information about me and the end result seems more scatter-brained than old fashioned print ads.

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

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Post by Kiro »

zeveb wrote: post #79
Kiro wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Removing ads isn't really tampering though: it's inarguably improving. If someone makes my life immeasurably better without telling me, I'm thankful.

I wouldn't say it's inarguable. I'm not using Adblocker for many different reasons but that's not really the topic here. I think you should at least inform someone that you install stuff and let them give consent, regardless of what it is.

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

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Post by loeg »

eistrati wrote: post #58
binarycrusader wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ugh, no. Blurring the text not only kills performance but since it happens after page load is incredibly irritating. Nevermind all the irrating navigation that suddenly appeared around the edges of the page. Quora does this and it's why I will never, ever sign up for an account with them.

Imagine it's not blurring, but random replacement of alphanumeric characters that quickly replaces the original text in the article. Would you use it that way and which route: micro-payments or ads?

Still just as annoying. (And no.)

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

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Post by guntars »

eridius wrote: post #82
guntars wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm not sure how this addon could possibly work without that permission. After all, that's literally the point of the addon, to read the data on the websites you visit, find instances of Millenials, and then modify the data so it says Snake People instead.

I understand how DOM and extension permissions work. What I don't understand is how 22k people thought giving access to every single site that they visit (banking, facebook, email) to some person that they don't know anything about and have no reason to trust, was a good idea. It's mind boggling.

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

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

mars4rp wrote: post #39

I hate Ads as much as next guy, but what will be the future of the internet without the Ads? where the revenue comes from? do we have to pay for every site that we use? I prefer a free content internet with reasonable amount of ads!!

Ad supported content which may actually be worse for us because you can't block it and may not even know what it is.

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

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Post by loeg »

eistrati wrote: post #72
Aldo_MX wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Fair point, but it's not a restaurant and educating readers this etiquette would be really tough. How about pay for reading and refund if you think it's not worth your money? Would you do that?

That seems reasonable.
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