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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I remember what the internet was like before we had ad-blockers. I concur with others who have said turning the blocker off would make it even worse. There no fucking way I'm turning off ad-blocking under any conditions. I'd rather just stop using the internet altogether. I can not verbalize how much I hate ads. I stopped watching TV because of ads a long time ago. Never again.

Oh man, I wish I could get a pair of AR-glasses with ad-blocking in real life. No more ads polluting the streets. That would be great.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I cannot stand ads anymore to the point that when I happen to watch TV stream and ad break come up, I put the TV on mute and go browse Lemmy on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm in the same boat and often wonder what right these billboard companies have to put their messages in my face

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Billboards are illegal in several states. It's one of the ways they've kept Hawaii beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yesterday a site for image translation I was using didn't load the image. so I thought maybe it's the adblock and man that was a horrible experience. How can people Stand all those flashing bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I remember the first time I saw ads on YouTube, I had just set up a new computer and wanted to test everything. So I opened Firefox and loaded a YouTube video. I got a preroll and wondered "wait ad's, on YouTube?" Then I realized I had been using AdBlock for so long I never witnessed the transition from ad free YouTube to YouTube with ads.

These days I use unlock origin, Sponsorblock and revanced. For now it still works but maybe I'll leave YouTube soon :/