[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

6470 readers

1 users here now

Share a story, ask a question, or start a conversation about (almost) anything you desire. Maybe you'll make some friends in the process.

RULES

Be respectful: no harassment, hate speech, bigotry, and/or trolling
Encourage conversation in your post
Avoid controversial topics such as politics or societal debates
Keep it clean and SFW: No illegal content or anything gross and inappropriate
No solicitation such as ads, promotional content, spam, surveys etc.
Respect privacy: Don’t ask for or share any personal information

Related discussion-focused communities

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

1255

I've been blocking ads for so long that actually seeing them feels perverse (leminal.space)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

245 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I use ad blockers and open source privacy focused software whenever I can but occasionally I have to use computers that don't belong to me or an older phone where my usual applications aren't installed and seeing all the advertisements just feels dirty and dystopian.

I think the worst ads are the text to speech ones that say "Download this app today". The unblinking energenic people saying you can make a living at home are probably a close second.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And then hear 10,000 times how her web site is broken by the ad blocker, and show her again how to disable it for the 10,000th time. Or is that just my hell?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife is on board with pretty much all of my shit in this area. That said, do I have exceptions in my pi-hole for a shitty mahjong clone's ad service? You betcha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Of all the games infested with ads, your wife is subjecting herself to them for a common-as-Hell type of game that you could get a non-malicious version of from F-droid?!

That's just downright stupid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That could mostly be you! 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That must be some janky-ass website if it gets broken by an ad-blocker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep! Every damn time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can relate. I permanently removed all her devices when I still used it. Now I just use https://ovpn.se/en, it comes with ad blocker built in to the client.