Ever since advertising became extremely intrusive, it’s been game over for them. I’d rather put effort into hiding the ads (Adblocker), switching browser if necessary (Chrome v3 bs) and switching platforms (Lemmy) then seeing them again.
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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I still don't understand why google went from "intrusive ads are bad" to basically allowing Google Play to be completely taken over by games and apps that require you to watch 30-60 second long ads to do anything. Man how I miss discovering cool apps and games. I was completely fine with watching 5 second ads for rewards, but at this point I doubt anyone even pays attention to the screen anymore, which does the opposite effect of marketing.
Ads have become bad enough I have decided to be actively malicious towards them with AdNauseam, which clicks them all in the background for me. Advertisers pay as if someone clicked on the advert. Every. Single. Advert.
The only one that loses out is the advertiser. If anything the website profits from it.
Hmm, how would that work?
I assume if an ad is just trying to track what websites you visit often, this would not work 100% of the time, as they would still get your IP if a request went towards the advertiser, or am I misunderstanding how it works.
ads have lots and lots of additional tracking both through JavaScript and through redirect urls (especially if JavaScript is disabled), generally the advertiser (e.g. Starbucks) does not actually host their own ads and instead the ad platform (e.g. Google Ads) tells Starbucks that people have seen the ad on the publisher's website (e.g. Washington Post) and charges them for it, then gives a cut to the publisher
all the parties involved - the advertiser, the platform, and the publisher - all have a de facto hostile relationship towards each other so they all want to track the interactions and views themselves, and messing with the ad interactions is a great way to do it. the publisher wants to represent that they have lots of highly engaged viewers so that they can change more for their content; the advertiser doesn't want to pay for bot interactions because it doesn't help their brand. the platform wants to make money and not get sued
Yeah, but old browser extension has let me block all advertisers (and all of them are equally my most-hated) forever, so reddit is cordially invited to get fucked. And they can construe that as 'encouraging violence' all they like.
Straight Luigi'd.
Reddit has ads?
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What a stupid idea. I want to block advertisers forever, not just for a year lol. And I can actually do that by installing an ad blocker.
Too little, too late. I'm on Lemmy now :)
my ublock lets me block all the advertisers for more than a year on reddit
considering what reddit has become, im glad i had adblock as well.
I love that my first post is to say that I don’t give a solitary airborne fuck about Reddit and their ads because I’m here instead. I hope they enjoy the enshittification all the way down their throats.
Hear, hear
Welcome to a non-centralized and controlled website!
This would have only had a chance of working prior to adblockers becoming so rampant. They're over a decade too late and now advertisers are just viewed as "the enemy"
I think lack of goodwill plays into this, too. A lot of smaller sites can get away with stuff like "OK guys, the servers aren't free, so we need to run ads." and then have people super thrilled with them if there's an option to limit or disable ads for donors.
On reddit, I think the attitude would basically be "get fucked, spez!"
I don't think I've ever seen an ad on Reddit Thank baby jebus for ad blockers.
I doubt that's true. Plenty of posts are ads, without being marked as such. They just do it without paying reddit
they do have it, just not excessive like most sites.
I meant I never see ads because I use an ad blocker.
On their mobile app is one every few posts. I've seen as many as one every three in the main feed. It was simply unbearable.
steal your food, then toss you table scraps
Idc about ads as much as their duplicitous censoring, shadow banning and shadow deleting posts. You need to recheck your posts in a private tab periodically to see which ones have been censored to the outside world, as they try to dupe the users to believe its still up on their end. Scumbags. Its not a new thing either, but considering how heavy handed they've been, I suspect spez will be all too happy to devolve the platform further under this new 'climate' we're all in. Never trust Reddit. I have faith in Lemmy to succeed it. Decentralized platforms are the only way forward for unimpeded free speech.
I don’t see any Reddit ads and won’t ever because its dead to me
So generous of them
"All of them? All of them. All of them is good."
I haven't seen reddit ads in at least two years
Does Reddit have ads?
I use NextDNS and the (revanced) official Android app, so I haven't seen an ad on my phone in years.
Nobody cares.
The best reddit control to block ads is too not use Reddit lol. The second best is ublock origin. I've been using method two since like 2013 and have zero issues or regrets.
And Reddit ReVanced!
I use infinity+ revanced there never liked reddits own app.
I use rdx for the few subs I like following updates on
Still selling as much of your data as they can though, regardless of how many He Get Us ads you see
Getting enough money from those sweet LLM training data deals.
This is the exact ad I thought of lol
I’ve blocked all ads on reddit on my own terms, and have actually gone ahead and deleted my 15 year old account too 👍 They can fuck off
They deleted my account for me. Apparently being anti-Nazi is a bad thing there.
I got my previous account permabanned by saying Palestinians have a right to defend themselves by any means necessary. 15 years, over a million karma and several of my huge subs suddenly without a moderator. And now those subs are garbage.
when i got my 7 temp ban on worldnews for criticizing israel early in the war i just avoided the sub completely,(and yes i did end up switching to a old throwaway now got perma banned this year.
I made r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR what it is today. I took it from 150 subs in 2018 to over 1M subs by 2020. I was the one who initially implemented the "Banhammer bot".
Looking back, all that work I put into building it up meant absolutely nothing to reddit besides getting them more users for their eventual IPO. I put up with a lot of shit, including an attempted coup by r/fatpeoplehate refugees and a stint where one of the posts made it to r/all somehow... That was a fun night. Luckily I was already up with my newborn before shit hit the fan completely haha
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