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I think most of the population has simply been conditioned to accept and even expect advertisements to be a normal part of everyday life.
Maybe it's a situation where ignorance is bliss, to not have ads pull your attention away from what you're doing, and not feel like they are violating your personal space and resources.
But that's also part of living modern life on auto pilot like The Shareholders prefer. Work, consume, engage with content, repeat!
I opened brave yesterday and I saw two ads on YouTube. What is happening? Is something broken or have I been betrayed?
Brave is based off chromium. You're going to get ads. Chromium blocked most adblocker from functioning properly. Theirs a reason why chromium browser's only have ublock lite. Not ublock origin. Use librewolf or any of the other non-chromium browsers or firefox forks.
Also brave is trash and ran by an egotistical, homophobic bigot https://vger.to/sh.itjust.works/post/52290131
I gave my mother one of my old thinkpads I used to use at school, and on setting up her account (fydeOS btw, since it’s perfect for what she uses computers for), I installed an adblocker so she doesn’t see those scam supplement ads she was always convinced were factual, and it’s worked flawlessly.
oof reminds me of my aunt's computer, stuff was popping from all over the screen. Combined with the fact that it was an old laptop with low RAM, it was a total nightmare to use
I visited someone with a 5 year old child recently and they were watching minecraft videos (specifically for child audiences) with 2 min ads every 10 min, that cant be good
It's bad on multiple levels. Like 99% of the "for kids" stuff on YouTube is total brain rot with no educational value whatsoever. Then a barrage of totally not targeted ads beamed straight into the kids face.
Seeing people click and sit through minutes of insanely obnoxious ads feels so dystopian to me
If you want to show me a youtube video and a fuckin ad starts playing, we gon have problems
There have been some times where all my efforts failed and YouTube still showed me an ad. I realised that i'd rather not watch the video than the ad.
If I can't skip a video ad, and I really want to see the content, I simply make note of the advertiser and never buy anything from them.
I've switched insurance companies because the one I had was wasting my time advertising to me.
Oh that's a good principle in gonna adopt
I think of it that advertising costs money, and that gets passed on to the consumer. So the bigger the advertising budget the higher the final price.
Word of mouth is free.
Part of why Sennheiser is better then Dr Dre
Honestly, the best ‘ad blocker’ is a 10-minute cleanup: uninstall the bundled junk, disable startup apps, and run Malwarebytes once. Makes an old PC feel new again.
Uninstalling windows and installing KDE with a windows skin worked on my aunts laptop. She just used the browser anyway 🤣
Completely wild to me to think that creating services and content doesn't come for free and ads are the primary avenue for making money to make it sustainable + people don't want for things they can get for free elsewhere.
Our man spitting cold hard facts right here.
True and obviously a phone, a TV, a console, etc ate computers.
