Technology

There is a web outside of chrome...

Let's be honest: The internet without adblock is unusable. I really do not know how all those people without adblock are doing that.

I wonder, is hatred of advertising a common thing for folks with ADHD? They take away something you are giving your attention to because it interests you, and shove some other crap in your face just to serve their own interests.

I remember being enraged at the scheduled commercial breaks in the '80s and '90s. The only benefit they had was that I always knew which segment of the show I was in and therefore roughly what time it was.

But now? It is so much damn worse and the normies just seem more OK with it than ever. I just remind myself they are living in a society that conditions them to accept it and gives them a thousand more serious things to worry about.

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The ad company hates ad blockers. Whoda thunk it? Also, don't let web browser engines become a monoculture. We went through this shit with Internet Explorer. We know where this leads.

Can't believe the world we live in. Everyone knows google and meta are f'ing up the internet yet they posted massive record profits.

Trumps name is in Epstein file. There's pics video audio of him grabbing women and yet he's the president.

Companies like Tesla and big banks pay 0 federal tax and yet they are operational.

Social media has literally brainwashed people and people especially 9-5s  will destory themselves and their kids future.

Ads need to be banned. They are inherently harmful, inherently deceptive, and only valuable in competition with other advertising. There is a direct line between the advertising model and the malignant politics that are destroying our world. Ban them all.

I am honestly sad and sick of the sheer volume of ads, well, everywhere and in everything. Internet, tv, even in the real world you are bombarded by ads from every angle. Every time any free app or service gains traction, boom, there are ads now.

It is absolutely unavoidable, even when using adblock and similar services, and what is even worse is that this doesn't even feel like marketing now, but just a coercion tactic to force you to subscribe to "premium", because the ads do not really often feel like trying to sell you something but just annoy the hell out of you.

I am just so tired of it...

Better be. Also, fuck chrome.

Who the fuck is still using Chrome?!

Is it?

I used vanilla Chrome with “Ublock lite” in someone else’s computer for a bit, and was shocked by how many ads got through, not to speak of annoyances and what I suspect was a malware link. We also got a related ad on TV soon after browsing for something.

I think Google’s having their cake and eating it. It blocks enough for users to feel like they’re getting Adblock, yet it’s not much skin off Google's back.

Most of the time I dont see any ads on YT and I watch a lot of content there. It's getting harder to not get ads there on all my devices but it's doable.

But when I go see my parents, I use their smartTV to watch YT. And I realize how horrible the experience is with all the interruptions and the impossibility to just focus on what you are watching.

And yesterday I got multiple time ads for a crypto scam called Ryxero or something. The scam was using AI clones of Bernard Arnault, a french billionaire, pretending you could win 1000€ a day...

The scam also had deepfakes of news outlets pretending that people in France were "queuing to ATM" to get their money...

I think it's absolutely unacceptable that YT let them serve crypto scams to millions in complete impunity.

I will try to report the scam to authorities. I also reported it to YT but I dont expect them to act. The 3mn long ad was paid by an american business called "EX" which I think serves their scam abroad through YT in complete impunity.

For me the scam and AI clones is obvious but how many got scammed with the complicity of YouTube ? Hundreds ?

Over my cold, dead hands. Fuck you and your shitty worldview,

If you ever use the web without an adblocker you see why people have such a hard time with it and why apps took over. It’s almost entirely unusable except for some of the data farming social media sites (which also try to funnel you to their apps).

The trick is to not use chromium

If you dont have an adblocker.. you're guaranteed to get that fake "Virus found" notification from a website that has bad ads.

It doesn't help their case that most mobile websites are just completely unusable with ads enabled. It's impressive how shit they are sometimes

So weird that companies waste so much time trying to find ways to stop me from stopping them from wasting my time.

Maybe they should do a study in exactly where the ad revenue comes from. I strongly suspect that people who use ad blockers, and people who potentially generate revenue from ads, are two non-intersecting sets.