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Re: I Block Ads

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Post by DirkH »

Atlas22 wrote: post #81
moolcool wrote: post #7

“Advertisement is the rich asking for more money. They disfigure their towns in order to decorate their houses.” — G.K. Chesterton

While I would agree the vast majority of the time, ads are also used heavily by small businesses and independent developers to gauge interest and even just to keep the lights on sometimes. Mostly referring to online ads, billboards and TV ads are much more expensive and are far more risky for small businesses.

Just want to point out I think there's a big difference between using tracking to "gauge interest" and using ads. You can do one without the other. In fact, there are even privacy-respecting alternatives for businesses to track online traffic.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by jareklupinski »

sunshadow wrote: post #137
thorwagoog wrote: post #106

Am I the only person who thought that list was a poem? :) Here is how my mind read it: I block ads in the browser, I block their DNS I block beacons and the ping attribute in their URLs I block analytics, reporting, and diagnostic logging I block programmatic pleas to disable ad-blocking I strip query strings from UTM campaign tags I unshorten URLs to avoid tracking hacks I stop autoplay for the videos on my feed I b…

I find it amusing that you felt you had to write "written organically" to claim authorship.

Brain-to-keyboard, mentally-sourced, organic content

Fresh from the creator's mind, straight to your entertainment device

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by mikestew »

GoblinSlayer wrote: post #190
mikestew wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

...and then what? And remember that in your (very) hypothetical situation, I'm asleep while the car is charging.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by npteljes »

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 100% agree, and I'd welcome regulation to tone it down. Most of the time it's just obnoxious, and the worst of it is that it's effective - which is why the market won't solve it.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

chrismorgan wrote: post #115
chasebank wrote: post #3

Advertising is so completely intertwined with everyday life, it’s impossible to block them. The worst kind of ads, IMO, are the non-intrusive, organic looking articles / news stories placed there by PR. The ultimate brainwash. Most of HN and Reddit content is advertisement whether you realize or not. Front page CNN, outside of weather events and sports, it’s closing in on 100%.

> The worst kind of ads, IMO, are the non-intrusive, organic looking articles / news stories placed there by PR. I live out in the country. I don’t do TV, radio, newspaper¹ (including even general news websites—anything that’s important, I’ll probably hear about from siblings or parents). I don’t use any software with anything like banner ads. As for things like billboards, I know of one pair of billboards on the sid…

That said, I can't remember anything important in news.

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Post by 57FkMytWjyFu »

omginternets wrote: post #101
bombcar wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a mute button, sometimes labelled, sometimes hidden, but try pressing them all. Doesn't help much, but helps a little. And then stick some unapproved sticker on the pump of your choosing.

The stickers are a good idea. I also wonder if there's a discrete way of permanently damaging a speaker, e.g. with a magnet or something that could fit discretely in the palm of one's hand.

stab them with car keys.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by npteljes »

jader201 wrote: post #144

There’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…

I get that ads bring in money, but I think that every other unethical thing does as well, like underpaying people for their labor. I'm sure that there are a myriad of grey cases, where yes, the worker are exploited, but somehow the good is greater than that - and I do honestly mean this, I don't think the world is black and white. I detest ads however, and if I could wish them out of existence, they would already be gone. And I honestly feel that I don't mind anything that goes with it - things existed before, and will so after.

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Post by GoblinSlayer »

aidenn0 wrote: post #19

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.

Modern ads heavily rely on tracking, exceptions are rare.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by npteljes »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #4

I'm about to reach this peak of enlightenment. I'm almost there. And yes, many family friends (non-technical and even a tad technical ones) are super happy with me setting up some form of ad-blocking, at least in their browsers. The internet has become a scary place.

Always have been. Online ads were obnoxious since the existence of them. And in the before times, there were no ad blockers, and there were popups, then pop-unders, I had no idea WTF was going on. And the first ad blockers made browsing noticeably slower too.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by npteljes »

tombert wrote: post #147

You know, I don't even want to deprive people of money; as a yuppie who has money nowadays I am not opposed to paying for things I use if I could avoid the tracking and propaganda of ads. YouTube Premium, for example, is pretty solid for the most part, and I'm happy to spend some money to support the creators I like, but they kind of fucked that up because now I have to deal with the endless ads for RayCon or Express…

You have to understand where the ad is coming from. With Premium, you play YouTube to not interject extra ads. They can't really do anything with the content itself.
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