Why people pay for adblocker these day ? Adguard ?
this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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ublock and pihole here. Pihole is usually blocking 20-30% of all DNS queries for my home network. Smart TVs are the worst offender.
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Unpopular opinion incoming:
You know when you were playing hide and seek, found the perfect hiding place, and you reject anyone else who tries to hide in that place?
DON'T TELL ANYONE ABOUT ADBLOCKERS!
Seriously, corpos will crack down hard. I mean, real hard on adblockers. This is an arms race that corporations have not yet realised because not enough people are using ad blockers. However, if more and more people are using it, then corporations will also be trying to catch up and that is something they will win because of greater resources.
This will be like with VPN; as many VPN IP addresses have been flagged and blocked as the service became more popular. And some of these VPNs have not updated the IP addresses making access to many websites nigh impossible or awkward-- unless you want to trawl through countless addresses. I'm afraid the same thing will happen with adblockers. This is something that open source adblockers could not easily win-- if they could win.
Amigo - the corpos already know. They also know that anyone who hates ads enough to install and maintain ad blockers is also not going to click on ads. They're wasted impressions. The amount an advertiser pays to put an ad in front of you is a rounding error compared to the amount they pay when you click.
When I worked at G I had a Linux laptop. It came pre-installed with Firefox and uBlock origin in addition to Chrome.
If Google is distributing Firefox with uBlock internally to employees they know about ad blockers.
It's similar to how scam emails always have egregious spelling errors: they're trying to select out the people that won't fall for the scam.
they will try to crack down on it either way, might as well go out with a fight. The more popular it is to use adblocking and the less niche weirdo psycho, the less "normal" it is for whatever shit they wanna do, however far they want to go to literally force bullshit into your brain wether you want it or not.
What's private DNS and how do I use it?
I have Adguard and I believe it's using Google DNS.
Thanks.
All you do is set your DNS servers to dns.adguard-dns.com, and now ads are blocked system-wide. Even works on Android.
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I don't use an ad blocker. What sites do you visit that you need one?
At work when I am googling for help some of the sites are obnoxious but not too bad.
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