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Re: I Block Ads

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Post by paulryanrogers »

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #6

Advertising based 'free' things cost you far more than a subscription ever would. This is because Advertising Works and it works on you too . You are being manipulated into buying things you wouldn't buy, manipulated into making poor decisions you wouldn't otherwise make. Generations of people lost decades with relatives from smoking and drinking that would not have happened but for advertising. Advertising makes peo…

That depends on the cost of the subscription, the things being advertised, and the audience's will power.

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Post by sergiotapia »

Use Brave Browser for insta-blocking all ads. https://brave.com/

Install Sponsorblock to remove sponsored content and fluff from videos. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...

Install SmartTubeNext on your Android TV device to watch youtube with no ads + sponsorblock support baked in. https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext/blob/master/README...

Install Revanced on your android mobile phone to watch youtube with no ads + sponsorblock support baked in. https://old.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/

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Post by pachico »

Damn, I was reading this hoping it was the page of the ultimate browser/mobile app or extension...

How did we get so far without having all this by default?

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Post by Buttons840 »

gaudat wrote: post #2

If you ever heard your friends complaining about the amount of ads they get on their phones and computers, gladly spend a while to help them install something like Ublock Origin. Let the less techy public know there is a way out.

This will also help add to the outrage if ad blockers are ever taken from us by some means.

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Post by mgbmtl »

gaudat wrote: post #2

If you ever heard your friends complaining about the amount of ads they get on their phones and computers, gladly spend a while to help them install something like Ublock Origin. Let the less techy public know there is a way out.

Yep (and be pragmatic/emphatic, a lot of this stuff can seem obscure to non-techies).

My partner/wife is a long-time iPhone fan. I never tried to convert her, but she is on the point of switching to Android because she can't use Firefox on iOS.

It's completely absurd too - to discard a perfectly fine device otherwise, just because it cannot block ads, or at least, cannot run uBlock Origin (for blocking cookie-banners, social annoyances, etc).

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Post by aidenn0 »

I don't block adds, I only block tracking cookies, and yet I am told repeatedly by websites that I am blocking ads on a daily basis, and that they will go out of business if I don't disable my "ad blocker."

Meanwhile I am quite content with pages that show me full-width banner ads without tracking me.

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Post by jdthedisciple »

In before the "do you also steal from restaurants?"-clowns join the discussion. lmao

They're simply the funniest

And yes it's the most common "retort" to ad-blocking I always hear.

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