Ad blockers or not – your choice matters
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@poopooracoocoo I don't want to block only the most commonly used ads & trackers from some static point in time, or even a rolling list of common ads & trackers. New filters are constantly being written in an ongoing effort to deal with the constant ongoing efforts by ad networks to make those filters obsolete. But it's irrelevant, beyond the fact that certain functionality is based on the use of an arbitrary number of filters (making any limit the wrong number), it's the removal of the web request API and the functionality that provides to extension authors that is the real issue that has yet to be addressed definitively by Google and has some people wondering if they'll be able to continue producing them.
@poopooracoocoo said in Ad blockers or not – your choice matters:
btw for some reason I didn't receive a notification on the vivaldi forum website. i must've only received an email
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@BoneTone said in Ad blockers or not – your choice matters:
I don't want to block only the most commonly used ads & trackers from some static point in time, or even a rolling list of common ads & trackers.
I remain puzzled why it seems many people can't understand the implicit weakness of this essential fact. Why people think that list-based methods are a solution... beats me.
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I don't want to block only the most commonly used ads & trackers from some static point in time, or even a rolling list of common ads & trackers
I agree. Was just clarifying my point.
it's the removal of the web request API
yeah it reminds me of the situation on iOS :((
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It's users choice the ads required or not . Browser is required only for develop knowledge and teach the skills through web .
Browser is not become ads marketing tool .
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@knk040919 I disagree.
Going by your logic advertising should be removed from the press and television.The web is a perfect place for new business to advertise and they should exercise that right.
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@Priest72 said in Ad blockers or not – your choice matters:
advertising should be removed from the press and television
One can dream. But don't give me false hope
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@Priest72 said in Ad blockers or not – your choice matters:
advertising should be removed from television
Funny, I do exactly that. The only time I see commercials on television is during live sports, even then typically only at bars. For live sports we typically delay watching, skip ads, and finish live.
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I lost count of the number of comments on YouTube videos about the number of ads. I never see any; I just click the skip ads button at the start of each video.
What I need is a negative comment blocker. Now that would be really useful!
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@Pesala
That's all very well but as a bit of an insomniac the other night I thought I'd listen to an old Alan Watts talk and hopefully nod off, but every very few minutes there'd be a very loud electronic noise posing as music, or some chap telling me not to delay arranging my funeral or something, it made one jump or become rather irritated. I closed Youtube and found something on BBC Sounds instead. Youtube ads are not well worked out, they pop up at anytime, bang in the middle of a sentence, no wonder people complain. -
@Priest72 said in Ad blockers or not – your choice matters:
advertising should be removed from the press and television
Scourges of human invention: politics, patriotism, racism, religion... & advertising. All should be purged.
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@Steffie , all human coexistence requires policies, but it is obviously not what there is currently. that only creates problems instead of solving them.
But I agree with the rest of your observation.
I think that ads are currently an outdated method of wanting to sell a product or service, not only on the internet but also in real life, passing through the city that looks like Las Vegas with posters, even luminous, that no one is interested in anymore, idiotic and repetitive ads, interrupted by bits of movies on TV, web pages where you have to search for the content among so many advertising banners. Commercial inefficiency from the same exaggerated number of ads.
It is indeed necessary to cut with this, apart from the fact that we are ourselves who pay it, in real life with the money that companies pay to create advertising and that affect the prices we pay for the product, in the network in addition with the bandwidth that we also pay. -
@Catweazle said in Ad blockers or not – your choice matters:
human coexistence requires policies
Policies
are [/can be, if designed by intelligent non-sociopaths] fine... it'spolitics
that is just hopeless.@Catweazle said in Ad blockers or not – your choice matters:
all human coexistence
...which is why i feel optimistic about my Cunning Plan to gradually replace all humans with my race of interstellar shape-shifting purple lizards. It's top-secret, so pls don't share this info with anyone.
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@Catweazle They're all my "people" there...
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@Catweazle that's my favorite of Barabeke's Operas.
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@BoneTone , it's from the movie 'They Live', (John Carpenter, 1988) highly recommended
I've been wearing these movie glasses for a long time.
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@Catweazle said in Ad blockers or not – your choice matters:
@BoneTone , it's
frominspired by the movie 'They Live', (John Carpenter, 1988) highly recommendedAnd yes, John Carpenter is awesome. Halloween and his remake of The Thing are classics, and annual features in our home around this time of year.
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@BoneTone I actually live a few miles from the hometown of donald pleasance who starred as dr loomis in halloween,which is carpenter's homage to hitchcocks psycho.
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@Pesala said in Ad blockers or not – your choice matters:
I lost count of the number of comments on YouTube videos about the number of ads. I never see any; I just click the skip ads button at the start of each video.
What I need is a negative comment blocker. Now that would be really useful!
You're probably not watching on the mobile YouTube app or a TV app, then... advertising is incredibly intrusive on the mobile app at the moment (when you start, while you're searching, before you can play, during the video...) and even on the TV it's starting to do two unskippable ads in a row every now and then.
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@mossman I thought Vivaldi Android also had built-in ad-blocking. If I disable that on the desktop, then the ads are very intrusive, but that was my point, they can be blocked.