Its a fork of uBlock:Origin with a fun twist.
Every day brings us closer to All-Despising Baby Skull.
It’s not piracy to shut your ears and plug your eyes whenever an ad is playing … at least not yet. Give the lobbyists a few weeks.
In addition to all of those strategies, I also make a mental note to never buy whatever product is being hawked, or any other product from that company. It’s automatic; I have an almost Pavlovian vomit response when I see/hear certain brand names thanks to their advertising. I’m also weary of competitor’s products, because I wouldn’t put it past those slimy bastards to own both companies and present them as alternatives to each other.
I got banned from twitter for a week back before it went nazi by shit talking every ad it put in front of me.
Happened to me on Reddit right before the api shenanigans
That’s an excellent tactic : if you advertise at me then you become the target of my shit talk.
What amusing justification did they offer for the ban?
That because they rely on capitalist propaganda to keep twitter “free” it was against the rules.
Advertising is one of the most prolific environmental pollutants of economic activity, and needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.
It’s not “advertising.” That’s a euphemism. It’s #CapitalistPropaganda. Fucking straight up social manipulation and we’re fire-hosed with it from the day we’re born. It’s the prime reason we can no longer organize collective responses to capitalism.
Nah, as noxious as it is, too many people still consider smoking socially acceptable.
Advertising should be as socially acceptable as ripping random people’s eyes off with a rusty spoon, shitting in the socket, and charging them for it.
i love smoking but hate advertisements. am I that bad? I put an ad blocker on everything and anything that blocks ad blockers or requires me to pay to not see ads doesnt get used
Smoking is pretty bad, yes, but advertising is orders of magnitude worse. On a whole other league. Even worse than speaking in the theatre.
I genuinely haven’t seen any ads for 20 years now except in the odd waiting room or someone else’s house. It’s surprising how creepy and strange they are once you’re a few years removed from them. You start to notice parallels between cult members and people who don’t avert their eyes from ads.
Advertising is a mental hazard that must be constantly managed. It’s draining to defend against as it is almost everyone at all times. I keep advertising to a minimum in my home and I can feel the invasiveness of it when I’m not there, I’ve definitely lost tolerance for advertising over the years and will discard something every quickly if it shows up. Adblock at all times on the net.
It reminds me of that scene in Diaspora where a couple of robots found an old coke can in the woods. They freaked out, fearing memetic contagion.
I actively avoid products I see to many ads for
Same. If I see an ad for your new thing, im most likely never going to get it and will discourage others when the subject comes up to skip it as well.
I have very few ads in my life, because I hate them with a passion. As an autistic person, ads don’t even work on me to the same extent, and I hate having to sit through them.
I have opted into a government program, that means I don’t recieve ads or “free newspapers” in my letterbox. I use special webapps with integrated adblock and curator extensions on my browsers, and even custom scripts using scriptmonkey to get it away. On my TV I run SmartTube, which not only removes ads, but also automatically skips sponsor and other filler from videos, as well as removes clickbait titles where possible using DeArrow.
I run Linux, I have set up all my devices to use adblocking DNS, and I have run a PiHole for years. The only thing in my home that shows ads at this point, is my google TV that will suggest a show on viaplay or prime or whatever, and it is the only thing I cannot get rid of.
The reason I dislike ads, is that these corporations are fucking scum. They collude to ruin people’s self-esteem, and to overflood the market with needless materialist bullshit that we don’t need, by exploiting our deepest insecurities. As AI becomes more normalized, it will get even more insidious. People talk to their chatbots like they are their friends, and soon those chatbots will subtly manipulate them into buying hair products that don’t work, because they see a picture in your photos gallery of you slightly balding, and see you talked to it about feeling insecure about your appearence lately.
Ending my rant with a quote by banksy:
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”
I have run a PiHole for years. The only thing in my home that shows ads at this point, is my google TV
You should add those two domain in your deny list
After that, you clear the data of the Android TV Launcher app. The app won’t be able to grab any ads and it will be stuck will default youtube and play store ads.
Be sure to note how your icon were positionned as it will be cleared also
Very similar situation, pihole and adblockers on everything. I pirate what I want, I refuse even paid services that put ads in like Hulu and netflix, fuck both of those. I refuse to use tiktok since its literally everyone and their brother trying to sell you shit.
google TV that will suggest a show on viaplay or prime or whatever, and it is the only thing I cannot get rid of
GoogleTV as in Smart TV running Android TV, yeah? Get Projectivity Launcher!
The worst is the unmutable advertisements at the gas pump.
Some you can mute, if you press the correct hidden button. But more and more I’m finding them without the mute button. So I start pressing random buttons and combinations of buttons, until something works.
The pump by my house goes into a maintenance mode when you press a certain button combination, and then it tells you to go inside to pay (as if I hadn’t already swiped my card). But the ads are muted, and the charge still shows up on my account, the correct amount and everything, so it’s paid for. I don’t go in. The pump automatically leaves maintenance mode when I finish pumping. No harm no foul.
I try to avoid stations I know have ads, but I travel a lot for work, so it’s hard.
That’s exactly what I do, and I wield adblockers with the fury of merging supermassive black holes.
[stands on soap box]
Advertisment is theft.
It is theft of my time and attention, the neurons that have to fire for my brain to process the message and then mentally bin the thought. I value the messages of people trying to sell me things so little, I would request they pay me to sit through their drivil. I have only so many hours on the moist spinning mud ball we call earth that I wish 0% of it being told to buy things.
Back in the day, when the internet was wild and free, advertisment online was a means of allowing hosts and websites to keep the lights on becore e-commerce had its sea legs, and that was the social agreement. Your site hosts ads, I get access to the site, captialism still happened, but it was simple. Then ads loaded by third party sources were not vetted by the trusted site you were visiting and became a vector for malware.
Now, you had ad and ad-free tiers of paid services, you pay your cable bill to watch 22 min. of content every block, 26% of the content on cable is not the content your paying for. Its sick, and now its infested the digital social spaces where people just make the infomericals at home in exchange for free stuff further poisioning the well of trust for interacting online.
[/Gets down from soapbox]
Sorry, I hate ads, moreso that most, but on the level amongst this crowd. To quote the great Miracle Max from the Princess Bride (RIP Rob Reiner) “Life is pain highness. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something”
Advertisment is theft.
It is theft of my time and attention
Are you yourself a thief for using things like YouTube videos for free?
Back in the day, when the internet was wild and free, advertisment online was a means of allowing hosts and websites to keep the lights on becore e-commerce had its sea legs, and that was the social agreement. Your site hosts ads, I get access to the site, captialism still happened, but it was simple
What do you think it is now…?
I mean, obviously, corporate greed turns all of this up to 11, because if it doesn’t the shareholders are sad and the CEO gets sacked, but ultimately, it’s the exact same social agreement - you get to watch or read content without paying for it, and in exchange, you get to watch ads.
NOTE: I don’t do cable TV, so don’t know anything about that. I’m talking specifically about the Internet.
To the previous poster’s point, internet ads have evolved away from ‘paying the bills’ and more towards ‘harvesting and selling your data’. It’s made to be as invasive as possible now because they want your data, whereas before it was much easier to ignore or filter out. And it’s everywhere, from websites to mobile apps.
To your example, the amount of money youtube(well, google) has spent on trying to beat adblockers could make the service free for everyone and keep the lights on…but it makes more money to sell your data instead, so they try to shove more ads in. That’s also not counting the amount of paid research that goes into ‘what advertising is effective’, or ‘how many ads is too many’, stuff like that. Not nearly as much thought was put into them in the early days.
advertisers can gargle my ballsack
Agree. Honestly, websites just feel so much cleaner without ads. Like, ads are literal visual pollution and I hate it.
I’m pretty actively hostile to ads: I have an adblocker built into my router, I won’t subscribe to any streaming thing that will show me ads (and I get a lot of shows and movies from… other ad-free sources), don’t have cable etc. The only place I really see them is outside on billboards and stuff.
But anyway, I’m so used to not seeing ads now that going to family member’s places over Christmas was kind of jarring with the amount of ads. What’s wrong with your TV!
Like, ads are literal visual pollution and I hate it.
Ads are not just visual pollution, they’re more importantly also mental pollution.
Right! They’re trying to get a reaction out of you to then buy their crap.
Then add the ones that lead to malicious sites all over social media or steal your focus that you can no longer scroll that page. They’re insidious and negative, they’re all about manipulating your emotions to then go buy something.
