Ad blockers or not – your choice matters
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@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I think that ads are currently an outdated method of wanting to sell a product or service, not only on the internet but also in real life, passing through the city that looks like Las Vegas with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.
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I use Ghostery... Does a good job.
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@Ice007 , Blokada also do a good job. But in Tv LG WebOS there are nothing for block ads, it's the worst TV OS ever.
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