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@ShadowJonathan I have literally stopped watching youtube outright for a few days whenever their ads started getting through ublock and I couldn't find a way to bypass it in a couple of minutes.
I checked back a week later and it was back to normal. But I will absolutely stop using your service rather than be advertised to.
@azonenberg @ShadowJonathan I stopped watching TV on any/every platform decades ago. My life is rich and rewarding without TV. Plus I have time galore to read books .
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@OvertonDoors @redsad i just don't give ads that level of respect, I only listen or watch things without ads or I just won't watch them
I don't even dignify ads with my alertness to silence them, they can just fuck off with the medium they've infected and grabbed, it's become worthless to me the moment that medium got unskippable ads
@ShadowJonathan @OvertonDoors @redsad
Yup. I won't own a TV.
And years back I had a car in which I removed the radio's tuning knob so passengers would quit trying to tune away from NPR.
Of course these days the only ads I *can't* escape are *on* NPR.
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@ShadowJonathan @OvertonDoors @redsad Oh, and even on YT, you can bet I run SponsorBlock turned to the max settings on all channels.
Again, you do not get to dictate what I view, **I** do. And while you're at it, keep the interaction reminders to yourself, as well as self-plugs and gargantuan intros and endings.
@nanianmichaels @ShadowJonathan @OvertonDoors @redsad SponsorBlock, last I looked at it, is a disappointment: I don't want to block sponsor messages, I want to block ALL videos that HAVE sponsor messages. SponsorBlock has that information - any video with marked sponsor times - but I can't use it to remove all of those videos from the search results.
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@ShadowJonathan this is the minimum, standard, default behaviour for anyone faced with non consensual ads or media of any kind.
I dont think anybody exists who does not engage with this appropriately. if there is such a person then I think they will not be here for long.
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@ShadowJonathan I will spend the equivalent of your ad's runtime skipping back and forth to find the exact moment it ends
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@ShadowJonathan If I cannot suppress the ads, I do not use the service, plain and simple.
@DJGummikuh @ShadowJonathan @falcennial sites that popup ads stating that they are unable to display ads are most infuriating
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@ShadowJonathan I’m just using ad blocking all the time. If it breaks browsing I’ll disable it temporarily of if I care enough, or close the tab if I don’t. If it still doesn’t work properly (the site is so covered with crap, that it’s useless), I’ll close it too. I am not watching YT directly- only through Invidious.
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@helenaisvibing @ShadowJonathan Spray. Paint.
@kevingranade @helenaisvibing @ShadowJonathan paperclip to the speaker works pretty well too
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I talked to a friend who always clicks the sponsored link, specifically to cost the company buying the advertising money.
I never click the link to cost the advertising company money.
It made me laugh that there are two types of people
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@ShadowJonathan Just gonna leave this here.
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@ShadowJonathan and this is why we're on the fedi
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@ShadowJonathan Just gonna leave this here.
@delve @ShadowJonathan
this thing saved me when YT got crazy and blocked all the ad blockers. Somehow these guys got around it! -
@ShadowJonathan
Imagine using the web with no ad blocker... I know some people who do this and I just can't understand it. I had to do it once recently and I almost threw my computer across the room.Imagine using the web with no ad blocker..
most teenagers..
they know no other life..
Apple is nobody's friend here.. at least not their consumers. One of many reasons why I don't buy their products.. ever..
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@DJGummikuh @ShadowJonathan @falcennial sites that popup ads stating that they are unable to display ads are most infuriating
@heppycat @DJGummikuh @ShadowJonathan @falcennial
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@ShadowJonathan I use ad blockers extensively.
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@ShadowJonathan I will get a case, if someone tells me. they work in advertising
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Advertisements in general tend to intentionally create anxiety and FOMO. Unintentionally they also distract thinking and attention. Harmful, even if you're not driving a car.
I've mostly successfully eliminated ads from my life, and when I sometimes see how the other half lives, I'm surprised they can even function under it all.
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@steffo @ShadowJonathan yea never without an adblocker ever again
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@kevingranade @helenaisvibing @ShadowJonathan paperclip to the speaker works pretty well too
@groxx @kevingranade @helenaisvibing @ShadowJonathan
They are lucky that noone thought of construction foam there yet…
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@ShadowJonathan
Imagine using the web with no ad blocker... I know some people who do this and I just can't understand it. I had to do it once recently and I almost threw my computer across the room.@wakingrufus @ShadowJonathan more than a decade ago that was always my experience at corporate training courses where the browsers were plain IE or Chrome if you were lucky.
I dread to think what it's like today for most people who don't install an ad blocker by default.
I'm old enough to remember using Netscape before you needed an adblocker...
