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Re: I Block Ads

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Post by npteljes »

satysin wrote: post #166
tombert wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

From what I have heard, sponsorships are well worth for the creators. Usually bringing in at least the amount that YT otherwise gave them, and often more.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by npteljes »

rexreed wrote: post #12

Good list. Is there anything not included on this list that should be?

You could wear glasses with polarized lenses outside. If its rotation aligns with the LCD, you won't see the advertisement on the screen, only a black square in place of it.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by npteljes »

elwell wrote: post #86
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…

I don't think it gets me to buy things I wouldn't otherwise, but it directs me to certain brands subconsciously (more ad time, more trustworthy (...not saying that's necessarily accurate...)).

Advertising does things like making people familiar to a brand, and to associate certain feelings, imagery, values and words (which would be "branding"). It's far from just making people buy things directly. Rather it's literally making people think about things otherwise they wouldn't think about.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by timbit42 »

dheera wrote: post #65
submeta wrote: post #43

Whenever 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…

Yeah if I click on an interesting article title and the first thing it pops up is some stupid "do you agree to cookies" and "do you want to subscribe to the newsletter" at the same time on top of each other I usually just click out. I'm lazy. If they aren't watching their bounce rates, their loss. I use blockers too, but they don't catch all of them, especially the stupid cookie popups.

I never get cookie popups. I use the, "I don't care about cookies", web browser plug-in.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by timbit42 »

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 was expecting it to be based on Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by Nextgrid »

jareklupinski wrote: post #192
sunshadow wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Free-range, grass-fed, organic content.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by Nextgrid »

zmnd wrote: post #151
numbsafari wrote: post #66

I was stuck at an airport. I downloaded a free backgammon app on my iPhone, to kill some time. It showed me ads between every game. The ads were mostly for other apps. Most of those apps were games. Games that involved implied incestuous rape, non-consensual voyeurism, and other highly repulsive things. I just wanted to play backgammon. I uninstalled the app (thankfully, that's an easy thing to do on iOS, for now...)…

If you don't want to see ads, why you didn't want to pay a couple of dollars for an app? Or how do you see developers compensated in this case?

Paying doesn't actually solve the problem. Some time ago I bought "Angry Birds classic" app on iOS - it's a paid app that promised to bring back the "old" Angry Birds before it turned to crap.

On first launch I was met with a mandatory "privacy" policy I couldn't decline that was asking me to consent to being spied upon. I ended up getting a refund through Apple.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by Nextgrid »

npteljes wrote: post #200
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.

They are however in power to make a rule that prohibits third-party advertising in videos, delete any videos that break the rule and ban repeat offenders. Every forum back in the day explicitly prohibited any kind of commercial content - I'm actually surprised every social network is allowing all kinds of commercial promotion, even more so considering they are themselves in the business of advertising (thus unofficial ads are actually eating into their bottom-line).

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by Nextgrid »

jredwards wrote: post #167

What mechanics are people using to unsubscribe to mailing lists? My understanding is that attempting this is mostly hopeless.

Surprisingly enough this is not the case, at least in Europe. I sign up for the majority of websites/apps using my primary email but make an effort to go to the account settings and immediately opt-out of any BS emails/notifications.

Every once in a while something slips through (which I make sure to email their DPO as per the GDPR and ask what's going on, and they make up an excuse on how a misconfiguration/etc resulted in me getting spammed, but at least it puts downwards pressure on this behavior), but it's manageable - my inbox is clean and averaged over a few years I get a spam maybe once a month.

Re: I Block Ads

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Post by bichiliad »

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 thought it was a riff on Block List by RXKNephew, to be honest.
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