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What's the current status of whole-network blockers that use DNS? I tried pihole maybe 8 years ago, and it just broke too many websites for me to leave it on for my wife. It really frustrated her.
Adblock would break most websites nowadays. It's commonplace to detect adblock and disable the website if adblock is detected.
It's an uncommon practice in my experience, and it's easy to understand why. 90+% of websites nowadays are click farms - their content is totally interchangeable with, if not plagiarized from, hundreds of other sites. The one site that implements an anti-adblocker measure simply gives up a portion of its traffic to another site that doesn't. The far more lucrative strategy is to try to subvert the ad blocker, which many sites actually do.
It's always an insane experience when you hop on someone's laptop/PC who has zero ad blocking installed. POV: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/iV3js9pd5IE
We still haven’t reached peak Idiocracy. YouTube/hulu/disney+ still cut to ads instead of displaying them around the border of the content. Carl’s Jr/Brawndo still haven’t purchased the FCC. We are pretty close though.
They still need to make people actually think that adverts are good
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In addition to the threat to children, there's also terrorism to consider. It is frightening to consider that the World Trade Center towers might still be standing were it not for ordinary users who foolishly assumed that nothing really bad could happen if they installed adblock.
"Terrorists use planes. You are not a terrorist, are you?"
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I just go to ublock origin on firefox and install it, they'll never ask about it; i'm just doing them a solid.
Given the numbers of times I've had to disable ad blocker to fix some janky page I have to use, I don't think installing an ad blocker without explaining or even mentioning it is a friendly act.
We still haven’t reached peak Idiocracy. YouTube/hulu/disney+ still cut to ads instead of displaying them around the border of the content. Carl’s Jr/Brawndo still haven’t purchased the FCC. We are pretty close though.
It's always an insane experience when you hop on someone's laptop/PC who has zero ad blocking installed. POV: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/iV3js9pd5IE
It's no wonder people have gotten a lot more ignorant and less observant when they have to constantly fight the bombardment of their attention by unwanted distractions. In that situation of using someone else's device, I've had to move windows half off the screen to be able to concentrate on an article when the ads on the side were constantly distracting me.
It's always an insane experience when you hop on someone's laptop/PC who has zero ad blocking installed. POV: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/iV3js9pd5IE
It's no wonder people have gotten a lot more ignorant and less observant when they have to constantly fight the bombardment of their attention by unwanted distractions. In that situation of using someone else's device, I've had to move windows half off the screen to be able to concentrate on an article when the ads on the side were constantly distracting me.