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They call it "dark traffic" - ads that are not seen by tech-savvy users who have excellent ad blockers.

Not surprised that its growing. The web is unusable without an ad blocker and its only getting worse, and will continue to get worse every month.

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[โ€“] Gibibit@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Seeing static banner ads on 2000s websites without popups or tracking: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Blocking ads on Firefox after popups and other crap started: ๐Ÿ˜€

Browsing the internet on Android before I realised the browser supports addons: ๐Ÿคฎ

Blocking ads and tracking on Android via uBlock origin and Privacy Badger: ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ‘

My feeling of guilt when scummy megacorporations miss out on ad revenue:

[โ€“] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Even better: system-wide DNS adblocking on Android. Get rid of in-app ads too.

[โ€“] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[โ€“] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you care to expand on that?

[โ€“] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, haha. I thought you were telling me I should rethink using a DNS adblocker.

[โ€“] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

I see, hehehe ๐Ÿ˜„

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