Sounds like a lot of work blocking all those ads.
I Block Ads
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Re: I Block Ads
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Different topics suit different venues. HN, like any similar forum, is not suited to objective debate on all topics. On any forum, there are some topics where a broad consensus is held and maintained by participants. Advertising is one of those topics on HN.
I defended ads (to an extent) in a comment above [1], but it hasn't been received well (unsurprisingly). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36048236
It doesn’t look greyed out on my side at least, so I guess you must be sitting at around 0 at least as far as votes go.
Which is nice, it is good to at least have someone representing the position, even if I disagree with it.
Re: I Block Ads
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
gas stations have begun to play particularly loud/obnoxious video advertisements at the pump Just one more of the many reasons to drive electric. It's when I make the rare drive to a gas station in the ol' fossil burner that I'm reminded of what shit holes some gas stations have become. Half the pumps don't work, the card readers are full of skimmers, but by golly the video and audio work!
> Just one more of the many reasons to drive electric Oh yeah, just wait until your charging station installs ads. Then you're stuck watching an ad while your vehicle charges. That, of course, takes longer than inserting fuel into a tank. So more advertisements and more money for the charger!
Don’t worry, I’m sure Elon will find a way to integrate those charging networks with the screens inside his cars to show you ads there too. What’s better than showing ads on a small screen at a gas station? Showing ads on a big screen inside an electric car that charges for 5x as long!
Re: I Block Ads
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time I checked, it was just a Safari webview, and missed a lot of features compared to Firefox on Android. Has that changed recently? Other nice thing of Firefox on Android: being able to listen to Youtube videos even when the screen is turned off. (I'm sure there are solutions, but many seemed sketchy or didn't work well)
What are the features missing then? The main one I can see is edit PDFs directly[0], but I'd bet money that Mozilla wouldn't implement that on iOS anyways. FF can largely do exactly the same thing they do on Desktop to attract people: create a privacy-focused browser (if that's even what they're doing) and things like syncing your bookmarks, passwords, using Firefox VPN, and blocking ads. 0: https://www.mozilla.org/e…
No proper ad blocking. Firefox Privacy has some limited blocking but Cloudflare has rendered it useless and gets me into infinite captcha loops.
Tailscale plus Adguard has finally brought sanity to all my mobile devices thankfully.
Re: I Block Ads
#185There’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…
> Yes, I hear the comments saying “maybe they shouldn’t exist if they can’t monetize without ads”, but I’m not sure I agree. There are many that just wouldn’t survive with donations alone, and a subscription model may not make sense.
Selfishly, it could be seen as good for those of us who block ads, that they exist. Let other folks “pay” for the services I enjoy.
And I do think there’s a real gap below what I’ll actually get the credit card out for, and the services I use. Some things are just nice to have but not really worth performing a transaction over. Various one-off informational sites, video game wikis especially. Dark souls would have been kind of a pain without fextralife!
But, ads came pretty early on the internet. And one of the annoying things about them is that the non-ad-funded didn’t fully form. Who knows what business model would be available if ads hadn’t sucked up all the oxygen?
Maybe it is impossible that an ecosystem to pay for your Animal Crossing site could have grown. But we’ll probably never know.
Re: I Block Ads
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
It is viable. Just not in a way that you accept.
No. If it had a viable business model it wouldn't need to turn to advertising to cover costs.
Re: I Block Ads
#187Whenever 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…
People ignore them, just like TV ads.
Speak for yourself. I don't own a TV precisely because the ads got too much. I haven't owned a TV in well over a decade. I have a cinema system I just hook up to my laptop whenever I want to watch a movie or series from some streaming service. I doubt I'm rare in this regard.
Re: I Block Ads
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't used an ad blocker in years. The short answer: you get used to it. Banner blindness is a real thing
Anyone who claims they are unaffected by advertising likely just understand how the human brain works. You aren't immune. No one is.
There's research about it: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-fallible-mind/20...
Re: I Block Ads
#189I 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.
Good for you.
I was walking my dog in my local forest and came across a newly installed bench for sitting. On it was a shiny brass plaque: “This bench is sponsored by [insurance company]”, along with a phone number. I went straight home and returned with a screwdriver. I posted the plaque to the insurance company.
Re: I Block Ads
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Just one more of the many reasons to drive electric Oh yeah, just wait until your charging station installs ads. Then you're stuck watching an ad while your vehicle charges. That, of course, takes longer than inserting fuel into a tank. So more advertisements and more money for the charger!
I don't know how that's going to work given that the charging station in my garage doesn't even connect to a network. Beside, if you're talking about public charging stations, it's already been done (can't remember the name at the moment). The difference between those chargers and a gas station is, you charge for free (Level 2, though). It's odd, too, because the ones I've seen are at grocery stores. So, plug in, go…
Your car connects to the network.