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Re: I Block Ads

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Post by bee_rider »

Buttons840 wrote: post #17
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.

There isn’t really a way to take away ad blockers. Of course, a site can be made to not work with ad blockers, but then that’s their decision I guess. I’m happy to not use a service in that case.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by judge2020 »

Nextgrid wrote: post #39
judge2020 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

UTM tracking is probably the least of your concerns - all it does is aid in campaign analytics for the website you're visiting, it would do nothing to the third-party behavior and activity trackers that you're likely trying to avoid.

UTM is Google Analytics and also helps Google do ad targeting even if they don't want to admit it.

UTM tags in that sense are collected on the client side by tag manager or google analytics, which would be blocked by an ad-blocking extension anyways. UTM tags can/often are collected by the website themselves to do first-party near-100% confidence campaign analytics.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by omginternets »

I occasionally tear down ads in public spaces. I'm sure many will disagree with me, but I do think we should be able to move through public spaces without the incessant assault on one's attention and head space. I haven't been caught yet, though I'm sure I someday will, at which point I'll pay the fine and keep doing it anyway.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by 36046293 »

mgbmtl wrote: post #18
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…

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1047223162

Use whatever you want re: iOS or Android, but there are plenty of ad blockers on iOS.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by Pxtl »

I used to avoid blocking ads on principle -- a sort of "social contract" thing since I'm consuming ad-supported content. Then one day I found my kids' PC had its homepage changed to some scamware site.

Now I block ads on all my family machines. They broke the social contract.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by judge2020 »

jagged-chisel wrote: post #48
judge2020 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you block tracking but not ads? As in, do you let adsense ads show up, which track you? If not, why do you think the site wouldn't think you are blocking ads?

Blocking cookies. As in, the cookie gets ignored instead of being stored. No cookie returned to the server on future requests. Of course there’s also “use the cookies for this session and delete them later.” In any case, “blocking” cookies is not the same as blocking ads.

Blocking just cookies isn't necessarily achieving the goal of blocking tracking, though, since the idea is that ad networks commonly fingerprint you and combine any of those signals with your IP address to enable cookie-less tracking and ad targeting.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by jurassicfoxy »

omginternets wrote: post #53

I occasionally tear down ads in public spaces. I'm sure many will disagree with me, but I do think we should be able to move through public spaces without the incessant assault on one's attention and head space. I haven't been caught yet, though I'm sure I someday will, at which point I'll pay the fine and keep doing it anyway.

I find highway billboards and store signage to be a particularly awful display, and I'd be overjoyed for them to be banned entirely. I have often thought about cutting down highway billboards, although I'm not quite intense enough for that.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by MSFT_Edging »

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.

I'm almost afraid that if the userbase of effective ad blocking gets big enough, large firms like google will put even more resources into the anti-ad blocking like what is happening with Chrome's new plugin api.

I feel like letting people enjoy the ads if they don't know any better is a little smoke screen for people who do know better.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by globular-toast »

Me too. In addition I physically look away if I'm confronted with ads in real life. For example, when watching Youtube at a friends house or something. I purposely talk loudly over ads in the cinema etc. I am annoyed by ads I can't block such as billboards and the like.

Unless I ask you, I do not want your product. I am happy. I do not want whatever you want me to want. Kindly fuck off. Thanks.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by TechBro8615 »

anonporridge wrote: post #49
javajosh wrote: post #23

"No communication with me without my consent," is something I want in society, and that is violated by virtually all advertising, everywhere. I wish this was the social norm. The compromise is what the OP did, reactive, only-really-available-to-tech-folk measures. This is unfortunate. Personally, I would not consent to any communication that was paid for . In that case it's money talking, not the person, and this is…

> No communication with me without my consent That's not practically possible unless you choose to live alone in a controlled box. Even the infrastructure you're forced to interact with is a form of communication that manipulates you into certain behaviors. But then, maybe that's where we're headed as a society with the explosion of one person households, remote work, and delivery services. It's increasingly possible…

You can get pretty close. Turn on do-not-disturb and ignore your mailboxes. Become unreachable. Become ungovernable.
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