• fidodo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Honestly, I’m not against ads, I understand that a site with free articles needs to pay the bills somehow. The reason I use ad block is that online ads have become so intrusive that it makes websites unusable, and the way they track you is way over the line. If ads didn’t completely destroy the experience of reading a website and were reasonable in the data they collected I probably wouldn’t bother with ad block.

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      7 months ago

      Good take

      I wouldn’t even be against sharing some information so they could give me better ads

      I’m not in the market for a new car. I don’t need car ads.

      But knowing I shop at Something Hardware a lot and they are having a spring black friday sale on the tool I’ve been eyeing would be nice.

      Even still Something Hardware just slapping their logo in an ad is not helpful at all.

      If ads were helpful they wouldn’t be annoying

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      When I just used a browser ad blocker I made a point to unblock sites that I wanted to support and didn’t use obnoxious ads. Unfortunately for them I now use a network ad blocker too and it’s more of a hassle. One of these days I might make a list of domains to unblock but at the moment I’m more concerned with figuring out how to block YouTube ads at the domain level.

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        Afaik, they are unblockable. They are served from the same domain as the video, so if you block them you can’t see the video either.

        Instead of blocking it at the domain level, you can install adblockers on almost any platform. I recommend uBlock for Firefox and ReVanced for Android. ReVanced is also supposed to work on Android TVs, iirc.

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          7 months ago

          Running NewPipe for android to get ad free youtube, have been reasonably satisfied. Is revanced comparable, or good enought to bother switching?

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            7 months ago

            Assuming you don’t mind microG, with revanced you can sign in and have access to more of the bells and whistles. Otherwise, newpipe is great, and it’s more than YouTube. It handles bandcamo and other services too

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            ReVanced is a modded YouTube (and others) app. IE normal YouTube but you fuck with it locally to skirt what got the original Vanced guys. Adblock, OLED black theme same old thing Vanced provided. I’ve used NewPipe very little but I’d summerise a comparison as ReVanced has better user experience (thanks to Google making the app) and you can sign in/get notifications ect

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      7 months ago

      Yeah I’d be okay with banner ads on the side of shit. Might even feel obliged to look if they weren’t fucking spying on me.

      Won’t happen though. Advertising is about control, and anyone looking for more is never gonna give an inch.