• lokalhorst@feddit.orgEnglish
    84·
    2 months ago

    Wait, does the average person not use an ad blocker? Like am I within the 40%? 30%? i have really no idea

      • amniotic druid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        2 months ago

        Crazy, but understandable when you realize how many people use iPhone mobile apps for 100% of their web browsing

          • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
            10·
            2 months ago

            ublock origin light even blocks YouTube ads. It’s perfect.

            Before that, there were plenty of other ad blockers for iPhone.

            I haven’t seen an ad in well over 15 years (except for when I was setting up a new device)

            • binux@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              ublock origin light even blocks YouTube ads.

              Do you mean the website or app version? Because as far as I can tell the YouTube app is effectively a quarantine zone for ads. The only thing I know that works there is pressing the little info button on ads and blocking them one by one, but that gets annoying pretty much immediately.

              • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                Oooooh… yeah, I see what you mean. I don’t use the YouTube app for precisely that reason. That, and better playlist control through the website. I can accomplish everything I want from the website version of YouTube, which usually isn’t much when I’m just using my phone, and if I want anything more complicated, I usually have my MacBook Pro with me, so I just use that instead.

                And that usually is just using AirPlay for videos to my Apple TV, and I certainly don’t use the YouTube app on that, again, because I can’t use ad block on the YouTube app on my Apple TV, which is why I AirPlay videos from my MacBook Pro. And that works great, because the YouTube website offers much better control in creating playlists. So I would probably be using the website on my Mac anyway just for that.

                I guess it really comes down to my particular use case

    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      36·
      2 months ago

      My dad browsing on his tablet, shows me a page. “Ahhhh, my eyes! You need an ad blocker!”

      “Ok give me one”

      “You’d have to use firefox”

      “Never mind then, I want chrome”

      Then continue drowning in ads and tracking, chucklefuck.

    • late_pessimistic@slrpnk.netEnglish
      27·
      2 months ago

      It’s worse than average person. I don’t even see tech-savy friends use adblockers nowadays. No idea why, I never asked.

      And I feel like majority of people don’t even know browser extensions exist, and those who do think it’s all shady and malware, so they avoid those like plague.

      • xylol@leminal.spaceEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        I showed my wife the world of extensions like ad block and dark reader. Then she asked for some help one time and I saw she had some sort of tab grouping manager thing and had like a million tabs and was horrified of what I’ve done. I let her know there should be a setting that purges the browser when she closes it but she refused

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      Chrome doesn’t really have an ad blocker anymore. Firefox + unlock origin is a different level than chrome users can even access.

        • Naho_Zako@piefed.zipEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, I use uBlock lite on my work computer since i don’t want to have to fight websites for hating FF. It works perfectly fine for your regular everday purposes.

    • MrKoyun@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      There has been a few times when I showed people my ad-less internet. Their heads exploded! They went, “Oh dear internet fairy, show me your ways of serenity!” and I did. I installed adblockers on their devices. Each and every time they went “Thank the heavens, I’ve never known such comfort in my digital life before!”

      AND THEN THEY JUST STOPPED USING THEM AFTER A WHILE???

      Edit: Not my Mom though. My Mom looooves the adblocking.

      • Lycist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        My grandmother clicks on everything, constantly… On her phone I tried setting her up with a DNS based ad blocker and it made it so her freemium games stopped working, the ones that give her 5+ minute ads every 15 minutes…

        She refuses to use an adblocker because of it, but gets herself scammed out of money weekly due to these shitty malicious ads.

        • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I recently had an opportunity where I could have put a 79 year old lady on the internet.

          Then I remembered that she once told me how she was waiting for money from like publisher’s clearing house or something.

          Then I remembered that bulk of the internet, as a whole, is kinda shit…

    • kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      The average person uses whichever browser their OS came with. They won’t go out of their way to get an adblocker, especially if they became desensitised to ads. They don’t even know it could be better.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      very little have adblock on, plus alot of them likely uses apps on thier phones. and i think men use adblocks more than thier counterparts.

  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    2 months ago

    I once caught a reddit ban for sharing NSFW content even though the youtube video had none. I had to ask why and it turned out there was porn in the ads and apparently that was my fault.

  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
    44·
    2 months ago

    This is what its like when I turn on the TV at someones house or at a hotel or something. I encounter TV ads so rarely (only commercial free streaming / downloaded content in our house) that its fucking jarring as hell to be watching something and then suddenly there are commercials.

  • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    2 months ago

    I have this conversation with my wife. I installed a pi-hole on our network, works nearly perfectly, however every site thinks we have ad-blockers installed, and kind of we do I guess.

    She got mad because all the sites she wants to read (she love celebrity drama) won’t let her read any more, so she just uses cellular data instead of the home wi-fi. I don’t know how she reads anything with all the ads everywhere.

    • pedz@lemmy.caEnglish
      38·
      2 months ago

      One day I installed AdGuard on a Pi and routed my parent’s traffic through it, effectively blocking ads. I thought they would love to live without ads but she asked me to remove it because the games she plays won’t progress unless she watches ads.

      • _spiffy@piefed.caEnglish
        17·
        2 months ago

        I have a pi hole and my wife likes the Google shopping links that it blocks and my sister in law likes to play games with ads. I ended up just making a bypass list and putting their devices on them.

        • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.orgEnglish
          8·
          2 months ago

          Same for me. I have a group called noblock on my pihole. If someone complains, I go and add their device to it. I have given up arguing with people…

        • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          You know, if the people who go out of their way for ads make it so the people who won’t don’t make such a huge target, I’ll take it.

    • BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      oh god, same here. I have Pi-Hole set up with a two layer system so it blocks less for my partner’s phone and laptop and more for everything else.

    • T. Hex@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Couldn’t you just change her phone’s DNS settings to circumvent the adblocker? Then she could still use the WiFi.

      • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Lets call it a combination of “not tech savvy enough” and “it did what I needed and she had a bypass, and I put 0 thought into it after”

    • Ioughttamow@fedia.io
      4·
      2 months ago

      Heh, my dad wanted to use sites where he needed to have ad blocking disabled. I set his device up in adguard home to be ignored by all of the global blocking rules

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I started with pihole and eventually switch to AdGuard home. Sucks for apps that “requires” an occasional ad, but 1 thing I still can’t figure out is why Hulu won’t work anymore.

      But I feel you on the benefits and why I won’t give one to my parents. These are people who took 2 months to realize my dad isn’t on the family text group because he accidentally “left” the group, and why my mom’s iPhone stopped ringing because she consciously used the physical mute switch on the side (buried beneath the phone case).

    • minorkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Your wife is the mentality that ensures we can’t have nice things. Too many people are willing to be abused, exploited and manipulated just to get their cookie.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    37·
    2 months ago

    Every time I help a family member with tech support, I make sure to install ubo as an extra , even if it’s unrelated to the problem. I’ve also started adding the bookmarklet kill sticky. Less clutter and ads means less attack vectors, which means less work for me.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Hey thanks, never heard of this

      Edit: any advice for how to add the bookmarklet to Firefox on mobile? Can’t drag the thing anywhere like the site says, and I can’t seem to right click to copy the link

      • kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Not the same feature, but I sometimes use reader view in Firefox desktop and mobile to remove annoying site elements from around articles.

    • kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Great idea for that bookmarklet, might start using it myself. I use Stylus a lot, so in the past I always just wrote my own CSS for unstickying sites I visited regularly, but this would be neat for those one-off occasions.

  • ReHomed@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    I’m surprised people are capable of tolerating the shit it’s fucking awful

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      For decades, if I happen to hear ads playing on radio or something, i literally stick my fingers in my ears and go LALALALA until it stops or I have left.

      You’re not selling me SHIT today, I will never be part of your brainwashing scheme.

      I am willing to die on that hill so help me god.

      • canthangmightstain@lemmy.todayEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        I feel like it’s turning into a genuine schism in our society. The “it’s fine, I just deal with it”s and the “I swear to fucking god I’ll burn it all down before I see/hear a single goddamn ad”s.

        The Time Machine needs to be remade with this in mind.

      • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        I just switch it off. If its not my device my interest in what ever was on immediately shuts down and I go do something else.

        Like a comedy show is on the TV at a relatives house and I walk by, its entertaining and I sit down to watch with them. Oh adverts, off I go then.

      • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I listen to or see and enjoy the adverts, then I don’t buy their products. They spent that money advertising at me, and get nothing.

        Do you know how many car adverts I’ve seen on TV in my life? Hundreds.

        I can’t even drive.

        “Sticking it to the man”

        • DV8@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          The reason why ads are such a big business is because they work on everyone, even those who say they’ll go out of their way to not use the brand they saw ads for.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    Using a phone with no ad block is astonishing. You get taken to sites where ads, cookie consent forms, and other junk all compete to the point that there’s no site left to look at. It’s the days of pop up windows all over again.

      • potpotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        For Android. FF Focus for iOS can do some ad blocking, but standard is still limited being WebKit.

        I get the flack Brave gets, and I wouldn’t touch it on desktop, but I’ve struggled to find a better option on iPhone.

  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    When I have to go off my network because some website won’t load because I am blocking their trackers I get sick from the AI ads, its gross. Truth in advertising is dead so so dead. They are not even trying to make products look real anymore.

    I won’t allow list the things the site needs, I would rather just go on mobile for a min. I wish I could set DNS settings per browser so I could spin up a lighter adblock that will allow the sites I have to rarely access and then just have a dedicated browser for.

    • a14o@feddit.orgEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      I wish I could set DNS settings per browser

      This is extremely achievable

        • a14o@feddit.orgEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          In Firefox, under privacy settings, activate DNS over HTTPS (DoH). The default DNS (CloudFlare) should work, but I prefer the custom setting https://dns.quad9.net/dns-query

        • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          In firefox, I think it would be in the DNS-over-HTTPS settings or a separate setting if you disable DNS-over-HTTPS. I thought it was a normal setting for all browsers, but I guess that’s changed recently.

          You can always use forks like waterfox, librewolf, zen, etc for having separate settings.

  • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

    I set up firefox and ublock for my inlaws, but they only use edge.

    They like to read some rag newspaper website and the difference is STAGGERING, the ads it has everywhere, I can’t describe it. They always use edge, on purpose. Deliberately.

    • Kjell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      My mom is the same, she uses Firefox but I was hesitant to add ublock because if it break something she would have no idea on how to fix it. So I installed Librewolf and changed so it remembers login to make it simpler for her, she never uses it. I think she is so used to the ads that she believes something is wrong when the ads are no longer there.

    • Tenderizer@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Change to Mullvad or Adguard DNS. It’s not perfect, but doesn’t require manifest V2 so it works well even on edge.

      That said it’s even harder to fix issues caused by DNS-level adblocking than an extension so consider at your own risk.

  • BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

    I had this experience at work last year. I shared some article that was relevant to work and half the people complained that it had a full page ad they couldn’t dismiss. The other half of us used Adblock, apparently.

  • lohky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    This is me and my wife. She showed me a video on her phone the other day and it started with two ads. I didn’t really comprehend that they were ads and asked her why I was watching some weird Dominos meme. 🤷

  • Tempus Fugit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    I literally had this thought yesterday. I’m so glad I know how to use technology. I have no idea how folks raw dog the internet today.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    Same experience when I try to watch TV with commercials after 20 years of cable. Can’t even get through a sitcom. Hard to believe I grew up with that shit drilling into my brain every 5 minutes.

  • Snailpope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been using ad block for years and was so confused when I went to watch the Rick and Morty marathon on Adult Swim. I had no idea it showed ads during the “intermission”. I immediately muted it, tried to figure out why ad block wasn’t working and questioned how anyone could put up with it.

    Coming from a guy who watched infomercials as a kid, I could recite them from memory, living ad free for almost 20 years makes ads nauseating to me.