• maquise@ttrpg.network
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    1 year ago

    Just this morning all the posts (here on Lemmy) were about how everyone was uninstalling their adblockers.

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      1 year ago

      People should be uninstalling Chrome instead.

      Adblocking still works fine on Firefox. Just update your UBO filters.

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      1 year ago

      Why the fuck would anyone uninstall their ad blocker just because one site demands it? Whitelists exist for a reason.

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          Right? I’ve used ad blockers as soon as they popped on the Internet scene. I hate advertisements, commercials and any kind of marketing. I don’t watch TV, and when I do or it’s on nearby, I get up and walk away during the commercials. When sponsored stuff interrupts a video I’m watching, I skip forward until the video returns. If I have to use a browser with no ad block, I straight up abandon most sites. It’s untenable!

          In general, I treat life and products/services I want like a business doing a Request For Purchase (RFP). If I want something, I’ll look up companies that provide that product or service and rely heavily on the recommendations of friends, family, and community when making a purchase decision. Those who aggressively solicit me will almost never get my money or be considered.

          Fuck capitalism.

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      That article was full of such blatantly misleading crap. Headline talks about record number of adblocker uninstalls, but the actual data says it was an uptick in both installs and uninstalls. In other words it was people cycling through different adblockers trying to find one that still worked.

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        1 year ago

        I actually removed a lot of ad blockers from all my devices once I found that uBO could do it all. That could be what they are seeing from others as well, perhaps!

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        1 year ago

        IDK why anyone uses anything else. It has street cred, it improves response times, it is ideologically just about blocking ads

        I use tracker blockers and containers too, but every machine that has been in my hands for more than 10 minutes has it installed

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          1 year ago

          Because they’re still on Chrome based browsers. It’s not really about the ad blocker, it’s about the browser. You’re not going to beat Google at their own game using the tools that they gave you.

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      1 year ago

      It’s like war propaganda, both sides are eager to claim they’re winning lol