Author block ads and unsubscribe mails, don't answer phone for uknown numbers, but also use 9 social networks as shown in footer.
I Block Ads
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Re: I Block Ads
#162Whenever I'm sitting in front of a computer that isn't using ad blockers, I'm shocked to see how polluted websites are, practically yelling at me, vying for my attention. How can folks concentrate on an article without ad blockers? Then there are those ads in YouTube videos and blog articles purporting to offer the reader something valuable when, in fact, they're packed with falsehoods ("xyz changed my life, and if y…
I haven't used an ad blocker in years. The short answer: you get used to it. Banner blindness is a real thing
When you hear something when you're sleeping, it gets memorized and analyzed for you. That's the basis of hypnosis and also the idea around which scientology started long ago. It can be used to program an individual, bypassing his critical thinking. Advertisements use the same trick to prime buyers to favor certain brands. If you doubt it, do a simple experiment: record yourself saying something and make the recording play back at night, when you're sleeping.
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Would love to see links to information on how to block some of the particular avenues mentioned. Some I haven't heard of yet. I use a pi-hole and uBlock Origin, but am always up to learn more...
I debated linking solutions I use but didn’t want the post, in that way, to advertise anything.
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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.
Sure. But you responded with a question that didn’t acknowledge what the commenter said. They said they block tracking cookies, but didn’t claim to block tracking. Actual blocking tracking is indeed a whole other conversation.
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SponsorBlock is what you want to auto-skip all in-video sponsored segments/ads https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Sure, but what I'm kind of getting at is that I would like to pay money for the ad to not be there in the first place . What annoys me is that YouTube Premium only gets you halfway.
Yeah it is a difficult place for YouTube as they would need to enforce rules that say the video maker cannot have sponsored content/ads within the video and I can't see that going down well as I highly doubt YouTube would be in the position to pay similar to cover the ad placement loss.
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#167What mechanics are people using to unsubscribe to mailing lists? My understanding is that attempting this is mostly hopeless.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would love to see links to information on how to block some of the particular avenues mentioned. Some I haven't heard of yet. I use a pi-hole and uBlock Origin, but am always up to learn more...
I debated linking solutions I use but didn’t want the post, in that way, to advertise anything.
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#169Whenever I'm sitting in front of a computer that isn't using ad blockers, I'm shocked to see how polluted websites are, practically yelling at me, vying for my attention. How can folks concentrate on an article without ad blockers? Then there are those ads in YouTube videos and blog articles purporting to offer the reader something valuable when, in fact, they're packed with falsehoods ("xyz changed my life, and if y…
I don't think I have ADHD but trying to read a news website without an ad blocker actually triggers me a little. The content keeps moving around as the ads are pumped in, and then a video (often unrelated to the article) begins to play, and it's often impossible to close it. I'm unable to concentrate on the article. And then the ads change and a new batch is rotated in. Some of them try their best to obscure the cont…
I do have ADHD. The idea that people are out there just raw-dogging the internet with no ad-blockers makes me deeply uncomfortable.
Re: I Block Ads
#170There’s a lot of ad hate in this thread — and on HN in general — that sometimes feels a bit naive. In 2004, I started a small website on the side that had no business value at all. It was just a small community of video game fans (specifically Animal Crossing), and pretty quickly, the costs outgrew what I was willing to afford on my own. So I opened up donations. Unfortunately that didn’t get me very far, so I eventu…
> In 2004, I started a small website on the side that had no business value at all. It was just a small community of video game fans (specifically Animal Crossing), and pretty quickly, the costs outgrew what I was willing to afford on my own.
> So I opened up donations. Unfortunately that didn’t get me very far
A site that has to rely on ads to survive doesn't have a viable business model, or in your case interesting enough/in demand enough content.
It's as simple as that.
Ads are largely a false economy anyway.