What is extra odd is when people don't bother with even the small stuff. I have a friend that just accepts Youtube ads exists. He is aware of Ublock Origin, he knows how to install it. He has used Youtube with no ads before. Yet he complains about the ads he willingly accepts.

I don't get it.

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

- Banksy

I opened youtube on a corporate PC the other day - viewing ads on the platform for the first time in I don't even know how long, at least 8 years, probably a fair amount more - and was immediately repulsed. How do people live like this? I don't understand it either.

Pihole, revanced, sponsor block, ublock, .... Essential tools to access the Internet. My phones permanently connected to a self-hosted vpn that keeps it behind pihole wherever I am.

I swear god; If I ever look up at the night sky and see a billboard shining down at me from space, I'm bombing my nearest Google office.

An other thing to do ... If you can not skip them and dont want to get up to do something

If i saw to much off one add ( every tvshow every 20 min...) i do not buy them.

If an ad is bad ( ex bad child who eats nutella cause dad loves him) i will not buy it. It made me know the cheap boni version is also doable. Been buying that one ever since.

Sometimes I go visit an elderly aunt, who watches a lot of TV. One time I was there and watched a bit of TV with her and my cousin. I had the remote, and started manually muting every time that ads came on.

They thought I was crazy. Why would I want to mute ads? They just didn't understand why I would do that. Anyway, I haven't watched TV with them since then.

Ads are attention rape change my mind

I see it as an attempt at manipulation and I do as much as possible to get as much of it out of my life as I can. If a gas station plays ads while I fuel at the pump I will look away. If it plays sound this station is dead to me and go to another one.

The worst is that it is a blatant tax on everyone. Not just for being annoying eyesores, but in the value of the products we buy. When a company spends millions of dollars in advertising to make their $400 product look like it should be worth $800, it is the consumer who foots the bill and then some.

Subjecting me to an annoying advertisement is a sure fire way to make me never buy your product willingly and I will shit talk your company at any opportunity I get.

And the strictest uBlock Origin's policy possible. Don't forget the strictest uBlock Origin's policy. And Cookie AutoDelete too.

And now you know why trump.