My retired parents live with me. I went ahead and put a PiHole on our home wifi. A day later my mother was literally complaining that she couldn’t click on ads on facebook. I told her those are ads and they track her and she says “well everyone likes to use the internet how they like to use it.. can you put it back the old way? I want to look at these shoes”. Can’t fucking win.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know it’s rare, but there have been times I intentionally clicked on an ad - if it genuinely seemed like a unique or useful product I had some interest in.

I imagine the fake-social-post type of ads are worth blocking though since it’s based in dishonesty and deception.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 8 points 2 years ago

I block ads on all my devices, but I assume they're scams by default when I do see them.

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