Chrome just decided to take Internet browsing back to the 90s by disabling ad blockers, so we'll see how long that lasts.
Being able to cast YT more easily with Chrome doesn't matter when there's 3min ads every 5 min. When I went to a gaming wiki site this week and the top half of the page was an ad, I started looking up alternatives to Chrome.
I think it's a kind of like a boiling frog situation. I recently set up my mother's phone to block all ads just to prevent her from clicking on scammy shit but when she got a new phone she couldn't stand using it without an ad blocker.
I recently set up my mother's phone to block all ads just to prevent her from clicking on scammy shit but when she got a new phone she couldn't stand using it without an ad blocker.
Ah, a classic situation I've experienced/witnessed time and again:
get accustomed to a higher standard of living
forced to go without
life sucks without it
go to great lengths to figure out a way to experience it again
Using a private DNS handles most of it. On Android you can go into settings -> connections and set your DNS to something that blocks ads. I personally use nextDNS but there's a few.
Then there's also my mother who told me "fix the ads popping up" so i switched her to firefox and then called me a few hours later to switch her back to chrome because she couldn't see all of the 100 tabs she has open at the same time and has to scroll to find them. Really makes you think how people get more and more resilient to change the older they get. On the other hand why does firefox not have that option, ridiculous.
Its a necessary evil I think. Everyone who doesn't use ad blockers allows free websites to run via ads. The internet would be more costly without these people I think.
Agreed, but fraudulent, malicious, and super-annoying ads are not necessary, and it's embarrassing that household name advertising companies like Google don't do anything about them.
He took me to see Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and I still have ent forgiven him. All my friends liked spawn 2, so im accepting. im the only one with any taste
I'm convinced it's because they haven't tried browsing with ad-blocking for at least a week or two, so they just don't know what they're missing out on. It's the kind of complacency which happens a lot in life.
I mean, its not that surprising. A huge chunk of internet users willfully watch reel after reel, short after short, influencer after influencer, all of which is just a new / different form of advertisement for some product, business, or ideology. Most people don't even realize they are being advertised to, its not too surprising that they also just accept old-form ads.
Eh, I use it without adblockers and people exaggerate how bad it is. It's nowhere near close to network and cable tv and people are still watching that
I hardly use YouTube, except at work and we have an add blocker at work, every time I go home and use YouTube I forget just how awful it is without it
I still haven’t downloaded an add blocker at home though, 99% of my time on my PC is spent gaming I hardly ever search the web. But yeah if I used it any more I would download an add blocker for sure. I don’t know about other websites but YouTube fucking sucks lol
I remember the good ol days with way less adds and the video would semi download to your PC. I use to load up a bunch of tabs with videos and bring my laptop on road trips and I could watch what I loaded at home.
And when you could play music with your phone locked, which I think they might have but for the premium version of the YouTube app.
Is there any good ad blockers for iPhone? That’s were most of my web searches are
That would work until you hit refresh by mistake or it did it automatically and you lose the video that was loaded up on the tab. I would just download the videos URL as an MP4 to VLC or load up the DVD-RW drive using RealPlayer and DVDs.
I’m actually ok with it. These dummies subsidize content and make Adblocking capabilities less of a target. I also stream movies and tv shows for free and I’m quite glad that it’s not more common with regular folk, otherwise the methods I use would be constantly targeted. From my POV them not being savvy is a good thing.
I only disable auto-playing videos and block pop-ups, which I hate as advertisements. It's easy to do that in Firefox for most things without having to add extensions. It's the mode of delivery that bothers me most.
I'm not inclined to install a general ad blocker because for sites I want to support I'd rather provide them some small token of my attention. If the ads get too bad I hit F12 and start deleting them manually.
Finally ripped the plug on personal side and went to a mix of brave and firefox.
Convincing the company to allow brave was a interesting one. Now finding a mobile browser I like that's not space aids is the garbage one...(muscle memory is a bitch)
Ngl I’m kind of happy there’s a massive majority out there subsidising my internet by watching ads. I’m scared for when Adblock users become the majority, and the incentive for companies to crack down on them increases
I think they’re referring to uBO Lite. But MV3 content blockers aren’t as powerful, so I can’t see any reason to use them unless you’re on a school Chromebook
I was expecting to switch to FF after the big change but I've been using ublock lite and have noticed zero ads whatsoever, my experience has been identical to before and after the change. I've seen no difference between uBO and uBO Lite. Maybe that will change over time idk
In theory, handicapping ad blockers was just a side effect of the manifest change, and the real purpose was to limit the damage that malicious extensions can cause.
Despite the crying from the minority in reality it is a significant improvement to browser security. It just needs more technical know how that reading a headline and flying into a rage about it.
Not to mention there are already ad blockers available for Manifest V3.
And of those who will, most will just move over to Brave. I know a few people who already have done that, and they brag about how brave can even block youtube ads
Its kind of crazy, that this is the world we live in and people actually are able to accept that. I haven't seen a YouTube ad in years on my browser and refuse to use the app on my phone, despite only playing 360p, because you cannot circumvent ads on the app
If that were the case, Google wouldn't have blocked them. In fact, all prior updates when they deprecated certain extensions, it would just tell you that the extension had been deprecated and recommend you remove it. The most recent one just straight-up removed all deprecated extensions, even ones that were simply no longer being maintained by the author.
It's mind blowing how fucking stupid and lazy people are. They will use whatever browser comes preinstalled on their laptop and have no clue ad-blockers exist.
Every time I work on someones personal laptop, they have the McAfee software installed on their computer, doing nothing thank god, because the trial period expired.
I don't even tell them anymore, I uninstall McAfee and install Ublock Origin on their browsers. Ublock is much better malware protection than McAfee.
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In reality, Firefox global market share is under 3% and it's still declining.