I am shocked every time I use my wife's computer and the ad blocker isnt there. I don't even understand how you could use the web on a regular basis where you have to duck, dodge, and weave better than Ali to avoid some type of disturbance.
Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
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Re: Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
#32In FireFox I have my ad blockers disabled in Private Mode so nothing is getting in the way if I'm testing or some site is being weird. Sometimes it's SHOCKINGLY different how a page looks with the blockers in place. I really can't believe anyone would user a browser without an ad blocker if they knew how things would look while using one. The web is a much better place with a blocker in place. (Yes, I know, we get a…
I'm using my own simplistic adblock at home (mostly because youtube ads driving me nuts) and I don't use any adblock at work (mostly because I'm too lazy to configure it). I'm not a fan of using browser extensions, especially those which require full access to every webpage, that's too much of attack surface in my opinion and ads are not that bad on websites I visit.
I use Firefox with Ublock Origin, Ghostery, and the YouTube Enhancer plugin. I get zero adds on YouTube with this setup!
Re: Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
#33I've had YouTube Premium since its inception. Whenever I'm around someone else who puts on a free-tier version of YouTube its rather shocking how frequent and intrusive the commercial ads are.
I bet! I run an adblocker and it's a cat and mouse game with YouTube ads slipping through. Last breakage, before I reinstalled it, I was getting ad interruptions for the same two stupid adds literally every 45 seconds.
Problem is once an ad blocker's in the loop, the ad architecture's dataflow is damaged and it'll have to run fallback content.
So you'll get whatever's in the B-list of ads and that may be just two.
Re: Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
#34I've had YouTube Premium since its inception. Whenever I'm around someone else who puts on a free-tier version of YouTube its rather shocking how frequent and intrusive the commercial ads are.
How far does YouTube Premium go as far as privacy? I never took a look at it carefully. My fear is I would pay the fee for no ads, but Google would still collect data on what I view and monetize that by selling me ads somewhere else.
YouTube Premium does nothing to stop Google using your youtube history to profile you and letting advertisers target ads at you on other sites using Google's data which is partially built on the youtube profiling.
By not loading the ads at all, it may stymie non-Google ad networks attempts to profile you.
Re: Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
#35>autoplaying videos I'm still looking for a block list that simply removes all video content from various franchise and local news sites. It is rarely actually relevant to the article, and is often vastly less information dense.
you can update your own block list, can't you?
Re: Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
#36I've had YouTube Premium since its inception. Whenever I'm around someone else who puts on a free-tier version of YouTube its rather shocking how frequent and intrusive the commercial ads are.
I just upgraded after refusing. Mostly for mobile. On desktop my ad block works but on mobile it wouldnt. You can also shut off your screen on mobile and it continues to run with Premium. It kind of sucks that Youtube requires you to pay for this but I use Youtube enough to be okay with it.
Re: Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
#37I have this moment when I have to use Youtube on my phone for some reason (such as a tutorial for how to fix something), and get blasted with 3 ads for a 1 minute video. I would never use it for long periods without an ad blocker.
youtube vanced or newpipe
Re: Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
#38A friend (who does not use an ad blocker) showed me something on a website a few weeks ago and I was shocked by the invasiveness and aggressive nature of the ads. I asked him how he was able to use the web like this and he said it was annoying and that he was interrupted a lot, but he had sort of gotten use to it.
There's no way I would use a browser without an ad blocker. Doing so is counter-productive and also a major security risk.
Re: Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
#39>autoplaying videos I'm still looking for a block list that simply removes all video content from various franchise and local news sites. It is rarely actually relevant to the article, and is often vastly less information dense.
NoScript fixes this (and a whole hell of a lot of other webdev sins).
Re: Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm using my own simplistic adblock at home (mostly because youtube ads driving me nuts) and I don't use any adblock at work (mostly because I'm too lazy to configure it). I'm not a fan of using browser extensions, especially those which require full access to every webpage, that's too much of attack surface in my opinion and ads are not that bad on websites I visit.
Adblock Plus, uOrigin, and ghostery lite don't require basically any configuration. Just install the browser extension and enable it.
Just a reminder that Adblock Plus has a pretty shady business model.