• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I refused to use adblockers on principle - not because I thought multibillion corpos needed more money, but because I recognized that sites using ads to sustain their business model needed views to maintain their viability in our fucked capitalist system.

    Then Youtube swapped to three unskippable fucking ads after every video.

    Now I just whitelist decent sites and let Adblock take care of the rest.

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      6 months ago

      I wish I could semi-whitelist (graylist?) many websites, like allowing only “acceptable ads” so that the website can pay for costs and make a small profit while not blowing up my screen with ads. At the same time, many websites (Reddit, most recipe sites, and any text site with an autoplaying video) absolutely deserves a full ad blacklist for disrespecting their users so much. Still other websites deserve a full whitelist.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah I whitelist as much as I can, but the default is to block because there will be sites that I visit once that would be unusable otherwise. If I find myself visiting more than once, I turn off the ad blocker to see if the site is still usable. If it’s not, sorry, no ad revenue for you, shitty site.

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      6 months ago

      I block all ads, everywhere, period. No whitelists, no nothing.

      Because I got sick of ending up with malware infected ads and having to clean up my computer (back when I was on windows, I’m sure the days not far off where linux will have the same problem)

      All these companies crying about ad revenues and shit? If they ever policed the ads they force down our throats for content, So they didnt serve malware, or obnoxiously loud or long ads, or any other bullshit, then people wouldnt have to need ad blocking tools.

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      6 months ago

      I block ads specifically so websites that rely on ads as revenue die.