• Armand1@lemmy.world
    54·
    3 months ago

    Playing through Persona 3 Reload at the moment. Not come across this gem yet but I have come across this:

    Telling a child she's at fault for her parents divorce.

  • _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    3 months ago

    My wife doesn’t use an ad blocker. I installed a pihole about 6 years ago and she got so incensed, and demanded I remove it. Eventually I carved out a rule on the router to assign her a different DNS server. I just don’t get it.

  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    3 months ago

    Good time to mention this if you don’t already use it, or if you do use blockers, maybe consider this:

    https://adnauseam.io/

    It’s AdBlocker, BUT actually, what it does is “click” on all the ads. Every adclick costs the advertisers, and makes targeting ads meaningless because of all the noise. From your end, nothing has changed, the ads are gone… but from the advertisers end, you’re costing them more money and making their data useless.

    • wischi@programming.dev
      7·
      3 months ago

      Is it reliable? Ad-blocking is a cat and mouse game and to actually have a useable ad-blocker it needs to be well maintained over a long period of time (for example like ublock origin).

      Their concept looks nice, but they are researchers and I’m a bit afraid that they just drop that, write a paper about it and that’s it. If there is no constant maintenance this will likely stop blocking YouTube Ads once Google deploys the next changes.

      Update: checked the repo and it’s actually a fork of ublock origin, so it should (for now) be pretty similar, but still they would have to keep maintaining that.

  • thingAmaBob@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 months ago

    For real. No one else in my life uses Adblocker, so when I visit, I’m reminded of how horrible ads have gotten.

  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

    Whenever I disable it to access a feature that breaks under it, I remember how cursed these sites have become. Reminds me of just before pop-up blockers were common.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 months ago

    My work PC does not have adblock, and I’m always a little culture shocked whenever I am forced to use Edge for something.

  • Godort@lemmy.ca
    3·
    3 months ago

    a lot of judgement here from someone that doesn’t know what a hamburger is

  • Stiffy@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    If you look reeeeeeallly closely at the space beside the shirt, then you can see a cum sock.

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
    49·
    3 months ago

    I have basic Adblockers just so I don’t have to deal with the clutter, but I’m not a bitch about ads. If a YouTube vid had ads I just hit the skip if I can, or sit through it. If an ad pops up while I’m scrolling through whatever news or media site, I just scroll past or click through and brush it off.

    These people who act like they’re being abused or tortured because they have to look at an ad or watch a few commercials make no sense to me. It reeks of entitlement.

    Just because the internet is filled with information doesn’t mean it’s free. It costs money to write articles and make videos. If we’re not paying them with cash then we’re paying them with a little time or consideration.

    As long as the ads aren’t obnoxiously loud or animated or otherwise irritating, they’re just part of the experience.

    But then I grew up pre-internet, when you had no choice but to sit through 10 minutes worth of commercials to enjoy 20 minutes worth of tv episodes.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      But then I grew up pre-internet, when you had no choice but to sit through 10 minutes worth of commercials to enjoy 20 minutes worth of tv episodes.

      Me too, and it fucking sucked. If there’s any way to avoid it, I will.