I’ve been informed that adblock plus sort of sucks now. If you’re looking for one, go for UBlock Origin.
You can pry my adblocker from my cold, dead hands
Good meme
it’s happy to see this alternative memes community growing
Having multiple of things is a strength of the fediverse!
Ad-blocking is internet security.
Imagine shilling a closed source, sold out alternative to UBlock Origin
ABP is definitely not closed source.
You can disagree with the whole “acceptable ads” debacle (I did and switched to unlock origin) but ABP is far from a risk to anyone using it. There’s just better blockers out there.
(btw abp is in fact open source and licensed under GPLv3, but that doesn’t make it any less sketchy sith their “Acceptable Ads” program)
I’m not an expert on these and didn’t realize there was a difference. Did this one sell out?
A tale of 3 adblockers
ABP allows “acceptable” ads that are acceptable insofar as they meet certain standards one of which is paying them money effectively renting your eyeballs to advertisers.
Ublock Origin: A powerful and performant ad blocker by its creator
Ublock. After the above dev tried to pass the torch to the loser who now controls this he instantly edited information removing all information about the person who actually created it and fund raise off it to the point where the original dev renamed his fork of his own work Ublock origin after it was taken down on behalf of the scumbag who now runs ublock.
In short there is no reason to use anything but Ublock origin
Yes, they allow certain “non-obtrusive” ads by default. Some people might be fine with this, but it should absolutely be opt-in, and their deal with an ad company is the only reason it’s the default.
I miss non obtrusive adds, remember when add blockers weren’t a thing and we were all fine with the adds in the sidebar trying to sell us virus laden glittery custom mouse cursors? Instead we have an arms race where the net is essentially unuseable without an add blocker.
… ah, those were the days, of flash player ads that would grind your system to a halt with anti-aliased particle spam, minigames, and perhaps a virus too.
Or the sneaky, stealthy, cpu grinding carpet bomb of the pop-under ads, only visible after you close the browsing window.
No, I remember hating those banner ads.
The worst part is, I still want those crazy cursors
I’m guessing you missed the time period where opening the wrong page would give you an infinite loop of un-closeable pop-up windows with background music.
Ads were never really non-obtrusive. If advertisers could force you to listen to their slogan at max volume every time you opened your browser, they would do so without hesitation. If you ever saw an easily avoidable ad in the late 90s-early 00s, it wasn’t for lack of trying. They simply hadn’t personally figured out more annoying methods yet.
I’m guessing you missed the time period where opening the wrong page would give you an infinite loop of un-closeable pop-up windows with background music.
Now we’re graced with its spiritual successor - the full-screen browser tab that looks like an “antivirus” warning designed to freak people out and get them to call the 800 number to grant remote access to “fix” the virus.
Or those flash-based “shoot the mosquito” ads that played a buzzing noise, at a time where your browser didn’t highlight tabs playing media.
Agreed. Flash. 🤦♂️. Keep that one in the annals of history please.
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Some of the first ads on the Internet were pop-ups. Ads always sucked.
What magical era is this? Because the before-adblocker time I remember was a hellscape of pop-over popups, sometimes many of them from opening a single web page.
It’s become even worse since mobile became dominant.
Now the ads are no longer a bit of text or a gif, but full page shit covering the top half of what you want to see and stubbornly staying in place even as you scroll. The bottom half of the screen is a sea of cookie and data consent forms who’s only interest is in making you agree out of sheer frustration.
And this is fuelled by bullshit, clickbait driven sites that use 10 paragraphs of useless AI generated padding with ads in between, to resist telling you what you went there to find out.
Google has destroyed the usability of the internet, and if it wasn’t them it would have been some other greedy fuckers.
Carbon Ads does non-intrusive ads very well
Well that blows. Thanks for the heads up. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Unless I heard wrong, I was under the impression that to be considered “non-intrusive” all the ad company had to do was pay adblock Plus.
Ublock Origin is king
No, they need to obey to a specific standard. I think money may be involved but you need also to make sure that ads are non intrusive
Not only did Adblock Plus sell out, the maker of the real program everybody should be using, uBlock Origin, doesn’t even accept donations.
sold out like 12 friggin years ago too. it’s not like it’s recent news.
I thought that was the joke, but I guess not. The joke being that Billy is about to give money to a horrible company.
Youtube premium is less evil than ABP v0v
This reminds me to donate to uBlock Origin. The dev does not accept donations though. I can’t imagine a fay without uBlock Origin.
Yeah I wish the dev accepted donations. Ublock makes my life so much better and I have a hard time being online without it. That’s something I’d gladly donate to. You can donate to the maintainers of the block-lists though
Explanation by uBlock Origin’s dev: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don’t-you-accept-donations%3F.
Fair play to the dev. At least they are totally upfront so you know you can actually trust the work as being unbiased.
And his reputation is solid. He passed on the original uBlock and its maintainer sold out so he went back and made uBlock Origin.
Nice of him to mention uBlock Origin is nothing without the maintainers of the block lists it depends on and somewhere else mentions people should donate to those instead. Nice to see some parts of the Internet are resisting the enshitification, or, in this case, actively fighting it.
I’d be really curious how much my internet use “costs” to advertisers and if I could/would pay that amount instead.
Like, the advertiser paid $0.0005 to serve that ad to me so I’ll just pay that amount directly to the site and not be served the ad. Just incorporate it into my internet bill and I’d pay just like I do for power or gas. And would my willingness to not see ads make me more or less valuable to advertisers and affect the math?
I don’t like the subscription model as it seems like the price point isn’t based on actual cost at all and like they’re double-dipping by still selling my info. Charge me the actual cost plus a reasonable profit margin of 10%-20%. How much would that be? Is advertising really so valuable that I wouldn’t be willing to pay that amount? If so, are advertisers overselling the efficacy of their product?
Go the other way and create anti advertising. Every time an ad invades your time, create your own ad like how you think it tastes like cancer or that you think this podcast broke up your marriage.
I’ll be honest and say I don’t really understand what you are trying to convey.
You get an ad for diet pills, and then instead of moving on with your life, create an ad saying those diet pills cause cancer and get those ads served in a vain hope to kill the initial ad.
I keep thinking that it might be a great way to do a website. As long as you have the content to make it worth it
But just super micro transactions, it charges fractions of cents for the things you do on it and doesn’t even charge until you hit a threshold. People could still use the site for free but once you have done enough in it, boom it shows you that you have enjoyed the site and asks for like $4. It would also help you recognize how much you use the site and get people to somewhat curb their time if they want.
Subscription works for like video platforms that makes curated content but otherwise I’d love to do a pay as I go to know I’m supporting them.
Or we could just block the ads and tell them to fuck off.
Or they could just block you and tell you to fuck off
There were some microtransaction services that sort of worked like this. I think one was called Flattr? I don’t know how well they actually worked or what happened to them.
Billy is smart. Why block just Youtube ads when you can avoid ads both in and outside of Youtube.
Adblock plus has sucked for at least half a decade at this point.
It’s been a full decade since I chose ublock over abp, it used less ram and let me block specific html elements. It’s still the best.
Good Billy.
Based and adblockpilled
See I use yt premium but that’s because about 5 ish years ago me and 5 friends did a family deal that meant it was $4 per month each, I did rise to $6 per month a while ago but I still think that it’s a good deal. It’s been grandfathered in so it’s not a deal you can get anymore but if I was to loose that deal for any reason I wouldn’t pay for premium
They got rid of all the grandfathered prices this year. That’s probably why your share went from 4 to 6.
Huh so it is lol. 6 a month is definitely better than 18 soooo I’m still happy
They pulled the plug on my grandfathered price, I cut the cord.
Google only had a net profit of 15 billion USD in Q3 :(
70 million USD to stock buybacks
Infinite growth! To the moon!
I’m eagerly awaiting our world’s economy to collapse. Can’t be very long.
Billy, yes! (But use uBlock Origin instead)
