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I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by ToDougie »

duxup wrote: post #283
mrweasel wrote: post #63

Other than the volume, one of the issues I have with these types of ads is that you're rarely able to report them as scams. Reddit have a similar issue. You can report an ad, but you have to pick "Other", there's no: "This ad is clearly a scam". That's by design obviously, because by removing the scams, most of the ad networks are left with very little inventory. Certainly not enough to fund all the ad supported serv…

The YouTube situation is weird. YouTube is competent platform, and has some good content on it. Meanwhile when I watch YouTube I get a stream of: "5G blocking beanies", highly questionable medical products, gross out ads about poo and etc ... It really degrades my view of YouTube / Google.

Do you have watch history off? I have never experienced anything like this, but I pay for Premium.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by fluoridation »

drnick1 wrote: post #274
sherr wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't use "pi-hole", just an in-browser blocker (ublock origin) and am happy. But I would assume a "pi-hole" would be a useful addition to a household using a variety of potentially ad-infested devices e.g. a smart TV, various tablets etc.

The issue is that (some) smart devices are known to bypass local DNS servers entirely. They either use a public DNS server or hardcoded IPs. The best thing would be not to connect any "smart" TV to the Internet. These are closed firmware devices with cameras and microphones and they just can't be trusted.

I thought Pi-holes were supposed to block connections to blacklisted domains, not merely serve as local DNSs. Is that not what they do?

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by duxup »

ToDougie wrote: post #311
duxup wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The YouTube situation is weird. YouTube is competent platform, and has some good content on it. Meanwhile when I watch YouTube I get a stream of: "5G blocking beanies", highly questionable medical products, gross out ads about poo and etc ... It really degrades my view of YouTube / Google.

Do you have watch history off? I have never experienced anything like this, but I pay for Premium.

Yes, I have watch history turned off. I suspect that gets me a different selection of ads.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by flowerthoughts »

mrweasel wrote: post #63

Other than the volume, one of the issues I have with these types of ads is that you're rarely able to report them as scams. Reddit have a similar issue. You can report an ad, but you have to pick "Other", there's no: "This ad is clearly a scam". That's by design obviously, because by removing the scams, most of the ad networks are left with very little inventory. Certainly not enough to fund all the ad supported serv…

I've been receiving email spam from Derilla, a pillow company, for many years. Once the manifest V3 abomination went into effect in Chrome, I also have to endure it on the frontpage of YouTube.

Who buys pillows because of email spam and YouTube ads? I don't get it. It's probably not a scam, but a very obnoxious company nonetheless.

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Post by beej71 »

Zak wrote: post #186

I use Mastodon for comments on one of my sites using a slightly modified version of the code featured here: https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-sta... As the site is focused on a single topic, I almost always tag a related Lemmy community in the Mastodon post, so it gets comments from there too. Federation is cool.

I also went this route. Also like it.

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Post by fluoridation »

liampulles wrote: post #235

From conception, I've never wanted a comment section on my blog. I just put a line that in effect says "if you want to comment, you can send me an email at xyz". If you are coming to a blog post of mine that has been shared to you, my assumption is that you want to read my article, and not to be distracted by whatever performance is happening in the comment section. I am aiding you by not even putting a comment secti…

>my assumption is that you want to read my article, and not to be distracted by whatever performance is happening in the comment section

Pfft. Half of the fun on the Internet is arguing with people about what other people said. I like to link to this blog post with over 500 replies about a constructivist who doesn't believe in the well-definedness of real numbers and shows up in the comments to respond to people: http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2011/02/10/e-e-escultura-and-th...

I really do not believe that blog would be better by not having comments enabled.

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Post by echelon »

delirehberi wrote: post #111
echelon wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How big is the nostr network? Is it peer to peer instead of federated?

Nope, its working over relays and Nostr network growing faster than federation network. You can get more details on official site: nostr.org

That's the next best thing to P2P. I really like this design.

I'll have to dive in sometime. This interests me in a way that Mastodon and BlueSky do not.

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Post by avree »

1dom wrote: post #281
jayd16 wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that right? Mobile is like 60% of the web traffic and they don't really have popular and effective ad blocking.

There are native, easily accessible ublock variations for Firefox for Windows, Linux and Android. A lot of nerds also have some form of private overlay network with default DNS to adguard or pihole or similar, again, making for identical adblock experience on all platforms.

There are plenty of great adblockers on iPhone too.

Re: I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse

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Post by CIPHERSTONE »

I suspect 99.5% of blogs like this don't make any appreciable amount of money from ads. Which begs the question, why even do it? If it cheapens your readers experience and you are not making significant money from it, just don't do it at all. Everyone thinks their blog will make money, few do.
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