I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable
remember when youtube ads were those banners that appeared on the video and had a close button
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As I recall, back in the late 90s there was a story in the Wall Street Journal about a man who loved receiving email spam. After a long day’s work he would go home and relax by looking through his email spam and order things.
Some people are just like that.
Tbh, I can relate to some degree. Sometimes I really love watching TV commercials. My favorite is teleshopping
Infomercials are incredibly entertaining TV and I will stand by that statement
Yeah, when I watch sports events from other countries it’s interesting to see the commercials, even if I don’t speak the language. It’s when I have to watch 20 minutes of the same commercials every hour that it gets bad.
I don’t like spam but I do like a good scam email, especially if they’ve actually given it some plot.
@gohixo9650 I turned off my ad blocker by accident the other day and freaked out as the internet was unbearable.
I always forget about my adblocker until I need to use a browser without one. It’s really pretty miserable.
I helped someone I know out with a thing on their computer and got blasted by ads because they didn’t use an ad blocker.
Those two minutes on the Internet really had me questioning how anyone manages to use it raw without going insane.
Maybe if we tell them uBlock Origin is a condom for their browser, they’ll understand?
What a sentence to type out
I see it that way. You don’t dive into some strange without protection, don’t let your computer do it with websites.
It’s always difficult with digital matters, since there isn’t anything tangible and concrete to show.
Like, there’s no shady person following them with a notebook and reporting back to their boss all day, but that is kinda what’s happening, just invisible to the user.
My pihole is pretty good at showing family how many connections their apps make are completely unnecessary to their actual functions. That’s a good illustration to start with.
Me everytime i use a broswer without ublock. Ill open a link here in lemmy without opening it externally to firefox and dear god my eyes.
Ublock makes the internet a better place. Or at least it shoves the bad stuff under the bed lol.
How about those mobile ones where they gradually move in from the sides to form a border around the content until you tell them to fuck off
Only in apps from Google Play. Use InVizible Pro from F-Droid
Almost, but needs a few tweaks:
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Content should be border-to-border in the 2000 panel.
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Needs to be 3 lines of content in 2010 and only two lines of content in 2018.
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2018 needs a slide-over autoplay video on the bottom-left of the content space.
2018 also needs one of those chatbot popovers in the bottom right of the page
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reminds me of this scene from Idiocracy
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You forgot the endless popups in the 2000s, which led to every browser integrating a popup blocker since then (and which often fail to stop actual malicious popups, no less)
Yes, in these years are a lot of pop ups, pop unders among other crap in some pages, but normally in most pages there was, apart of an ocassinal Banner not much else to justify an adblocker. But nowadays, between ads, clickbaits, cookie consent, adblocker detections and ant-adblocker, paywalls and other shit like these, you need a lot of extensions and scripts if you don’t want that the page fills your browser and HD with all kind of PUPs and unwanted scripts, apart of an ad/trackerblocker. It’s a cats and mouse game between companies which want to track and profile you with all kind of dirty tricks, and the user and devs continuos searching contrameasures to show them the middle finger.
Basically. However, in early 2000, it had popups all over.
my partner’s mouse’s scroll wheel has been broken for years. every time i’ve tried to get them a new mouse they stop using it after about 2 days and go back to the busted one. why? “idk it was too heavy/didn’t fit their small hands/plastic felt weird” etc. deadass i’ve gone through about 6 or 7. idk what the point of this rambling post is other than people are adaptable to shitty conditions and most straight up don’t care that their hardware/software is shitty.
Or it could be also interpreted as, people hating change.
also true, i’ve helped out boomer relatives with computer shit only to be told to change it back immediately after fixing it
I miss the IT Crowd and I am sad a show like it will never exist again.
Father I hear your a racist now father
How do you get interested in that type of thing?
It’s an ecumenical matter
I like your glasses.
I’m afraid they’re not for sale.
Dead.
you’re funny
Still not for sale
Nice tie! Haha
(Quietly) Thanks.
Hahahhahahah
It’s okay, you can just do a re-watch. It’s not like it’s been deleted by the Elders of the Internet.
There’s no further point once you can recite all the best scenes from the top of your head.
Okay, go on then, one more rewatch
But only if its been completely demagnetised.
A fire, at Sea Parks?
Damn, that mash looks tasty!
Brought to you by the twin principles of star math and wishy thinking!
When you say you turn your back to the stars… How do you do that?
Silicon Valley is the closest show I’ve seen in years
I see this and can’t help but think of this picture I took yesterday
uBlock on Medium mode. That is all you need.
Honestly, just don’t go to that part of the Internet unless you absolutely have to. YouTube is a great resource for information, but it sucks as entertainment.
That sounds like a you problem, honestly. Tons of great channels out there for basically any interest. Do you just, like, only ever look at the front page without logging in? Like just at the absolute lowest common denominator clickbait stuff?
I’m concerned about your inability to comprehend the notion of not living on YouTube 24/7.
How did you get that from that? You said it sucks for entertainment, I said it doesn’t and you get from that that I can’t fathom not being on YouTube 24/7?
You may not be going to the right areas of youtube.
I’m kept highly entertained with “True Crime” shows, audio books, manga & manhua recaps, and long form documentaries.
I’m always able to have something on my second monitor doing SOMETHING entertaining.
If that’s how you’re using it, then I think it’s reasonable for them to make some revenue from serving you a constant stream of entertainment.
I pay for Google premium and I support a few patreons, yes.
That said, I still use ad block, sponsorship block, and privacy badger
Stuff like YouTube content should be free to those who can’t afford it. Plus, my privacy is my own.
Those are the two major issues here
Why should YouTube content be free?
Because the uploaders are doing it for free and it’s been working the way it currently has been, free for 20 years.
If YT had made it their monetization scheme to charge users for an account - by all means. They did not, they set up the expectation of their product that it is free*.
- with ads, which they show on repeat and do nothing but waste the users time. There’s no reason why we can’t use an adblock. If the uploader or YT wants compensation, they have ways of obtaining that, either via donations, patronship, or premium accounts.
There is no reason that YouTube should suddenly be for pay or forced ads to use it. If they wanted that, they should have started out like that. If they wanted to not run at a loss, they should have planned for that. They did not, and it’s not on the users to suddenly make up for that shortsightedness.
Tl;Dr, while you can set up a foundation and decide to change it decades later doesn’t mean anything. The expectation from the users has already been set.
YouTube doesn’t owe you this. It’s up to you and creators to accept it or move away
But YouTube DOES have advertising and they have had advertising for a decade, everyone that uploads content knows this and accepts it and in many cases is able to monetize their own content. You are arguing that you are entitled to use third party software to personally avoid ads, and your only argument for it is that you’ve been doing it a long time.
Then google should have done a better job vetting the ads so they don’t have malicious redirects or malware so that users wouldn’t feel the need to run adblocks to be safe.
In fact, Google as the most pervasive advertiser should probably have done that for all ads. I imagine if they weren’t so terrible, ad-blocks wouldn’t be so prevalent.
It shouldn’t necessarily be free, but the information about whether or not I’ve seen their ad is privileged. AdBlock detection is an invasion of my privacy and therefore AdBlock blocking must be circumvented.
I used this scene in a cybersecurity training session. I knew it got the point across, when our resident ad-clicker asked me for advice to avoid that situation.
E: she asked for advice for her home computer, as she didn’t understand that “at home and at work” meant “at home and at work with any device, not just work’s”
What is this thing you speak of? Ads? Ublock Origin means I no longer see those things…
So far. If YouTube wins the adblock fight it’s running. It means the end of adblockers.
Because once they do it. Everyone will. We won’t be able “just go somewhere else”
In a world where people would spin up new websites just to piss off a billionaire, I have faith in humanity to build taller ladders for any walls the greedy corporations build.
Katherine Parkinson 🔥
I don’t have adblock on my work computer. I don’t want it interfering with webdev and I’ve found it to do so in the past. But it’s interesting, the dichotomy between sites I use as development resources vs the rest of the web. My phone and home computer are unbearable without adblock, but on my work computer, the ads are hardly noticeable really.
Its ultimately based on the sites you frequent at work vs home. The sites i read stuff at work tend to be less in your face with ads,.so you know its there but theyre less distracting.
I imagine developers are more likely to use ad block than majority population, so the related sites might have to be more tactical
A few well placed and tasteful ads are fine. And sites you tend to read at work show it can be done.
When you click the ublock button it says how many things they blocked. Mine is in the millions by now.
I just dual booted my desktop with Linux Mint the other day, for funsies I tried navigating the net (before adding UBO) and it was a shitshow.
0/10 do not recommend.
