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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I never get to be the 1 millionth visitor anymore

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Many websites, especially on the sketchy side of the internet, are completely unusable without adblockers

[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The internet is unusable without an adblocker.. I recommend uBlock Origin and Pihole.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

uBlock Origin at a minimum. But I would suggest a privacy focused browser. Librewolf, Mulvad or even Brave. Browsers leak so much information about you it is easy for sites to fingerprint and track you even with an ad blocker.

https://privacytests.org/

I know Librewolf is working on their DNS leakage (last section on privacytests.org), but they also allow you to select a privacy focused DNS server which is nice when you’re not on a network you own, so you can’t run PiHole.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

It is shockingly irresponsible of the Author to not include security concerns of advertisements in their article.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

Great ad I saw recently was a Charlie Day Mt Dew commercial. He said one word and a Mt Dew sign dropped over him and he yelled in his Charlie Day voice, "Hey I didn't even take a drink yet!" And that was the commercial.

Short. Sweet. Funny.

[+] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I mean, many (several?) sites tried optional subscriptions where you pay to get rid of ads, but that doesn't seem to have worked. Judging by the fact that most sites that have subscriptions instead of ads use pay walls.

People have come to expect free access, so if you can easily use an ad blocker, why would you choose to pay to remove the ads that a blocker removes for free.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

I'm not visiting any of those sites regularly. I'm not subscribing to any outlet without sampling their content, either. So that was always going to fail.

In the before times you were able to purchase one edition of a paper and be done with it. Now it's subscription only, so they won't see a dime from me.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Let's just take NYT for example. Subscription costs $325/year. Why would I ever pay that much? It's not 1954. I'm not sitting down with my morning coffee and reading the damn thing front to back. I'm reading maybe one article a week from 15 different sources. Am I supposed to pay $5000/year just to cover my bases?

As with everything else in [CURRENT YEAR] the value proposition is so absurdly out of step with reality that fixing it basically relies on rolling out the guillotines.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

The problem is they’re trying to double down on infinite spam by implementing infinite subscriptions alongside it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This isn't already the case?

[–] [email protected] 77 points 11 months ago

Many parts of the Internet has become functionally unusable without one. And given online advertising's history as a vector for malware, as blockers are just the sensible choice.

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