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In my 40 years on this earth, and a relatively early adopter of the internet in 1995 or so at the age of 12, I have never... in my entire life... purposely clicked on any sort of internet ad. It's impossible to say that ads don't affect me because you hear TV and all sorts of commercials on media in the background or maybe some new product from Wendy's is out that I might check out in a month when I think about it but I never purposely click on an ad. IF I by chance accidentally see an ad for something I might be interested in, I search for it. I will not click on the ad. On FB and Twitter and all of that poo poo my eyes seem to subconsciously and automatically scan for the words that make me scroll past any sort of ad (Ad, promotion, sponsored, etc). It's just loving white noise that is extremely annoying and has no appreciable affect on me for their means. gently caress google (yes, I probably use 10 google products daily including this browser which I might have to end up ditching after 13 years). Whenever some corporation squeezes down on people for dumb poo poo, innovators seem to come out and fight back to circumvent their garbage. Hopefully it continues. 
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syntaxfunction posted:Google already has your data it's totally fine. Same as we should just accept aggressive microtransactions and loot boxes in games. It's fine if the Kinect records your and stores the video silently. Sell your medical information. Have personalised ads surround you 24/7. It's all happening already why bother fighting it. Also it's not like a person doesn't generate tons more data every single day. Sure they could have all of your personal identifying info, but every time you click on anything at all they "learn" more about you.
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Oct 17, 2023 22:29
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Bonzo posted:They'll get people to pay for premium and I bet will soon charge more for an Ad-free tier or start showing ads when you pause. Kinda like Hulu and Prime are about to do. 100%. It's just a matter of time until you have to upgrade to their new ad-free service for an extra $5 a month or some bullshit. It seems like every loving tech thing these days is just an ad delivery service that you have to pay for. If you watch cable (I have my reasons) there are pop up ads during whatever show on every single program on TV. Most of the time it's an ad for a different program on that network but it's loving annoying when there is a movie on with subtitles hardcoded into it and the ad pops up and covers the dialog. How are people so loving stupid that all of this advertising is clearly where the money is because dumbasses fall for it and click whatever shiny thing pops up in front of them?
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Oct 27, 2023 00:30
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It didn't bother me for a few days on Chrome but it just started again with the 3 views message and only maybe an hour or so after I updated uBlock. 
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Oct 27, 2023 20:33
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kdrudy posted:Counterpoint, UIs can be annoying to write depending on the language you are using so deal with it. The end user doesn't know, much less give a poo poo about any of that.
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Oct 30, 2023 01:21
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Yes, I'm sure you are much smarter and innovative and can straight up tell the end user what they should have as opposed to what they want because they are a regular user and too stupid to "get it." edit: to be fair, people are very dumb, and simple and easy to use UIs are very very important Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Oct 30, 2023 |
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I think we are talking about different things. I was on the enterprise level and not the git hub level. I meant more in a general sense to your average dumb American who does not even know what an ad blocker is much less an extension to your browser.
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Oct 30, 2023 03:03
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emSparkly posted:Adblock plus sold out a long rear end time ago and started allowing "non-intrusive" ads. gently caress em. Yeah I used them for like a decade but years ago I was told (probably here) that they whitelisted a ton of ads so I dumped them immediately. I switched to uBlock and haven't gone back.
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ded posted:firefox + ublock + dont be logged in = i've still never seen these ads or ad gripes Das Boo posted:This. Yep. This is what I've been doing. I copy all links and open them in FF with ublock and not being signed in.
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roomtone posted:if i hadn't been using adblockers for the past 15 years i don't know if i would watch anywhere near as much youtube as i have Yep. I literally did not know youtube had ads until like 5 years ago because I've been using an adblocker forever. I never used youtube on my phone and found out that way. I don't watch youtube videos on my phone because of the ads.
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Ok, I'll switch to firefox then. You won google.
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Wow. That was super easy to import just about everything from Chrome to Firefox. Took like 5 seconds. To be honest, the only reason I switched from Firefox to Chrome was in 2010 when I got a job at Google and that's what they had so I just got used to it and switched at home. Back then I think FF still had memory leak issues and it was a hog on resources in general.
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Thanks Ants posted:I have misplaced hope that this overreach by Google sees the popularity of Chrome plummet  I like to see people suffer consequences from their actions.
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goatface posted:Unfortunately, we do not appear to live in a world where that happens to the worst offenders. Yeah. I know. 
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atomicpile posted:I decided to give in a pay for premium but then i saw that it had gotten more expensive and is now $18.99 which I'm not willing to pay. Jesus, I didn't know it was that expensive.
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Khanstant posted:And that's their "won't you please consider this" type price before they ramp it up.  For youtube? wtf
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Klyith posted:keepass is free and good if you are enough of a nerd. I've been using this for years. Good stuff.
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busalover posted:keep-rear end It's Keep-rear end 2 now.
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Nov 22, 2023 23:42
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Chrs posted:I’m still conditioned to assume that clicking any ad online will give my computer malware 100% If I ever see something in an ad that I might be interested in (very close to zero, sincerely), I will never, ever click that ad. Ever. No reason to. I'll google it and find the original source.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Firefox and uBlock still keep me ad and pause free. You should see the commercials on cable. Jesus christ. There was that Lume stuff that came out and had 50 commercials a day and now other major companies are starting to jump on board and you see fat women spraying their groin with a  or teehee look.
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doctorfrog posted:I know, it's great 
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PhazonLink posted:^that My county's library system is hooked up with Libby so I can borrow stuff on my phone/computer. I think Hoopla is another one. I haven't used either in a long time though.
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Khanstant posted:? You got to a website and click the picture of the show you want to watch. It's like Netflix but you don't have to login or pick a profile. Yeah it hasn't changed for me in over 20 years. 100% honest. Download a peer to peer client. Go to pirate site and click on what you want. It downloads. It's far simpler than subscribing to any sort of streaming service.
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doctorfrog posted:Downloading web videos at all is already this Yeah, I have no desire to actually download a youtube video to watch it. If I can't stream it without their lovely ads, then I just won't watch it. Speaking of enshittification... loving hard drive space. A single modern computer game can take well over 10% of my 1TB SSD's space now (if I had no OS or anything else on it whatsoever) so storage is a luxury again. On my laptop at least. edit: whoops, I thought this was the things getting shittier thread. Huge overlap. Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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