You'd think, with all the fucking data they collect on me, they'd know that I don't have any money and I don't buy anything unless I absolutely have to.

Let me add to your rant with an additional pet peeve of mine: Usually when people rant about the advertising some smug assholes in the comment sections say "You think you are immune but it works on you, otherwise they wouldn't spend millions on it".

When did money become the sole metric with which we judge the merit of ideas? Did the billionaire who died in the titan submersible incident not shut up the crowd making such an argument?

I do exactly same.

advertisers can gargle my ballsack

There should be a 100% tax on every company's advertising budget. For every dollar they spend on advertising they should have to pay just as much.

And I am actively avoiding products and companies based on their advertising.

For a while I enacted a weeklong boycott of anything for which I saw an ad, resetting each time I saw one.

It helped cut down on my soda and fast food intake. Otherwise (American) ads are mostly for insurance, medications, vehicles, and phones/plans.

new pipe is great for watching youtube on andoid without ads (tubular is a fork with sponsorblock), and kodi is a great home entertainment system with plugins that allow streaming youtube without ads :3

Every day brings us closer to All-Despising Baby Skull.

I only ever witness an ad on my computer when there's something new that isn't in my list of black listed domains on my pihole server.

In that case, a few clicks later they are on the "lol, no" list and I never see them again.

No smart tvs are allowed on my Wi-Fi. Instead they have tiny Linux PCs that let me watch whatever I please, ad free.

My mobile phone is graphene OS. My mobile browser has an ad blocker and works perfectly on things like YouTube.

News articles blocked by ads AREN'T when viewed via archive.is.

None of these things are hard enough that a beginner can't do the same.

I DARE you to do the same.

I hope that YouTube, Instagram, and Pandora notice that I close their app every time I see a gambling ad

When I see an advertisement, I intentionally do not purchase the product

That’s exactly what I do, and I wield adblockers with the fury of merging supermassive black holes.

Dude claims he is more anti ad than most yet does not mention using an adblocker. Curious.

Have you guys noticed a recent trend where a site will continually reload, presenting a dialog box about "being unable to load, click here to try again"? It winds up at a message about adblockers being bad and how to disable it. Otherwise you can't read the recipe/review/discussion.

Only trick I've found so far is to outright disable javascript on that site using noscript. Any other ideas?

If someone is annoyed by ads and wants to block them I strongly recommend Pihole. It got its name because it is often used on a Raspberry pi but it can be used on other units as well.

Setting up Pihole

Blocklist for Pihole Pro is the recommended but already the light version will reduce ads a lot if you don't do anything to block ads today.

The alternative is to get a browser based on Firefox with the add-on Ublock Origin. Even if you use Pihole at home it is good to get Firefox + Ublock Origin or DuckduckGo on your phone since the Pihole will not block anything for you when you are outside of your Wifi.

They still show ads on stuff? Hmm...

Let me check the scrape file on the PiHole...

Wowzers! That's a lot!

Good thing I've got the PiHole.

No what do you mean I love being inundated with consumerist propaganda designed to defile my mind and soul!

I cannot even describe how I feel about advertisers. Truly the lowliest, most sycophantic and pathetic scum on the earth. The MICROSECOND that an ad starts to play, I begin repeating under my breath "fuck you fuck you fuck you. I hope you fucking die." If I see your ad, know for certain, that should I ever meet you in real life, I will most assuredly remove your windpipe from your neck with a rusty fucking nail, so no one must ever listen to another mindless thing you have to say. Your existence is a net loss for all living things. It is an affront to basic decency and it my deepest desire that everyone involved catches fire and fucking dies.

Fuck advertising.

I feel like I've trained my brain to have a mental adblocker. I see ads in public, but it's like my brain intentionally refuses to process the information they're imposing upon me as soon as it can identify that it's an ad.

It's not like a literal black box in my vision or something obviously. But it's just a reflex to.... not think about it, at all.