Paradoxically, ads could be really lightweight and that would be incredibly beneficial for the advertisers because they'd load faster and more people would see them and they would cause less people to seek adblockers. But in my experience they're usually the shittiest performing part of any website that hosts them, to their own detriment. So sad how many web devs don't give a shit about performance.
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Hear hear. For years I used AdBlock Plus deliberately because I liked its acceptable ads policy, that let through unobtrusive ads. Then Google got greedy, and started trying to defeat adblockers on YouTube. And ABP couldn't get around that as quickly as uBlock Origin. So I switched. And now instead of letting through unobtrusive ads, I block everything.
> I visit a site
> "disable your ad blocker to continue!"
> I do that
> my entire computer freezes under the sheer weight of ads
(it's a true story, it happened yesterday)
You lost me at the third step there. I'm not disabling my adblocker for anyone.
"Let's check if there's an archive snapshot."
“Please consider disabling your ad blocker”
Um, no… closes the dialogue box
“Please consider disabling your ad blocker”
block element
Not to mention all of the malicious attack vectors and tracking that come through ads
DNS filtering is what you get if you use a PiHole, yeah?
uBO in Medium Mode FTW. Much lighter than default uBO. The first couple of weeks is hard until you create the rules to unbreak websites, but it's worth it.
You should still do DNS filtering, especially with a provider that is encrypted and doesn't log.
i'm pretty happy with nextdns, you can set all kinds of filter lists, and you can disable all logs. and it's free to use up to a certain monthly threshold which i didn't hit before
Also,absolutely critical if you are like myself, and use older computers. My newest Mac is a 2010 MacBook Pro running an unsupported OS install. Given the demands of the later macOSes on the as-now ancient hardware, anything that slims down the internet is essential to still being able to function online.
My mobile browser gives me stats about this
Which browser is that?
I'm pretty sure that's Brave.
Brave
Sponsorblock is unbelievable.
I also watch youtube in 360p, unless you actually need the resolution. Don't need it for a talking head.
Who would have thought lol