Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web

Post by titzer » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 5:47 PM UTC

BenjiWiebe wrote: post #88

titzer wrote: post #10

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I bet! I run an adblocker and it's a cat and mouse game with YouTube ads slipping through. Last breakage, before I reinstalled it, I was getting ad interruptions for the same two stupid adds literally every 45 seconds.

Which ad blocker? I use ublock origin and I never see YT ads.

Post by camgunz » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #91

reincarnate0x14 wrote: post #70

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Why don't I get paid for my HN posts? Do I owe you for your reply? Do you owe me for this reply? You work out how we commoditize every interaction into tiny micropayments so MBAs are happy with our time allocations and let me know. Ads were tried, and it's been an absolute fucking disaster.

This is maybe the one thing where Bitcoin or another blockchain-based payment network could have been a net benefit in theory (both as a measure to prevent spam and to reward content creators)... but in practice it turned out to be nothing more than a giant planetary heating system.

Post by 1shooner » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 5:49 PM UTC

m12k wrote: post #136

reincarnate0x14 wrote: post #17

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I feel zero guilt about ad blocking. There was some period of discussion on the subject back in like 2003 but the ad companies went to war against human civilization and there's been no going back. It corrupts and twists everything it touches into a constant hustle for eyeball-cash and an entire generation has now reached adulthood knowing nothing but that hustle touching every bit of media they ever interact with. W…

The problem I have with BAT is that it tries to give me power over the commercialization of something that I don't want commercialized. It's like someone launched a "Basic Sexual Favor Token" to empower me to take control over the sex work I'm expected to perform every day. I have a hard time being happy that they want to empower me, because I'm too busy being aghast at their assumption that this aspect of my life is…

Post by squarefoot » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 5:49 PM UTC

gigel82 wrote: post #103

warner25 wrote: post #53

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I run Firefox with uBlock Origin, and spend most of my time on pages like HN and other old-school forums that are mostly just text. My wife runs Chrome with all defaults and spends a lot more time in the mainstream web. Whenever she wants to show me something on her laptop, I think to myself, "how can she subject herself to this all day?!" For me, the experience in her browser is like being assaulted. She doesn't wan…

Sounds familiar. Installed uBlock on hers and whenever a website doesn't work for any reason I get an earfull about my "damn adblocker"... :)

Post by Workaccount2 » Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 5:50 PM UTC

whoibrar wrote: post #176

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This is exactly the case. Every time someone starts ad-blocking, someone else has to assume that ad watch for them. Of course this isn't 1:1 parity in reality, but the ultimate manifestation of ad blocking is that. Google had a good system a few years ago that I was probably the only sucker who paid them for it (and probably why they stopped it). You could pay a chosen amount monthly, and they would not show you ads…

Which year was this ? Can you share more information regarding this ?