Adblockers are killing the advertisement industry.

[douglaswaynericketts@mastodon.social]

@DrewNaylor ... he wrote using a site which relies on ads to earn revenue so he can use it for free.

[bright5park@kind.social]

@DrewNaylor I am doing it in two steps:
Pihole on my home server doing an initial clensing by simply not resolving any of the ad providers' URLs, then uBlock on all devices that support it to remove any unsightly residue from websites, and catch anything that Pihole didn't get.

[superblox@mastodon.social]

@DrewNaylor The collateral damage is on all professional content creators who rely on ad revenue to sustain themselves. If ad revenue dies, 90% of the internet will be AI slop and paywalls.

[ariaflame@masto.ai]

@douglaswaynericketts @DrewNaylor I'm missing something. Who wrote what using what site?

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@DrewNaylor It can't possibly die soon enough... https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@jonikorpi/117205841465633717

[deckpacker@kind.social]

@douglaswaynericketts @DrewNaylor Have not seen an ad on Mastodon so far

Might just be, because they are FOSS software, that is developed by volunteers and is funded by donations, but what do I know

[windsorwindsor2@mastodon.social]

@superblox @DrewNaylor Yeah, well... *Flashy "Lazy Loading" ad pops over content*"

I know we need... *autoplay video ad starts and follows me when I try to scroll past it, forcing me to inspect and delete the element that produced it*

*More lazy loading ads pop in, filling the gaps between paragraphs, now there's more ads than content*

I understand the need for ads, it's just they make it so diff...

*page stops loading due to ad load, my CPU fan sounds like it's launching for the moon...*

[lukefromdc@kolektiva.social]

@nazokiyoubinbou @DrewNaylor In my case, I do not publish to the ad supported social media sites or to Youtube/Vimeo/etc. That means instead of "killing the sites I love," adblocking is hopefully helping kill the COMPETITORS to the sites I love.

Mastodon and Archive get a lot more reach if Twitter, FB, Insta, and Youtube roll over and sink

[mike805@noc.social]

@DrewNaylor Friends don't let friends not have adblockers.

(Me on remote support yesterday, installing uBlock Origin Lite into Chrome)

I wrote my first adblocker in 1999.

[jonathankoren@sfba.social]

@douglaswaynericketts @DrewNaylor are you seeing ads on mastodon.social? If so, you have a computer virus.

[halcy@icosahedron.website]

@DrewNaylor I think the funniest possible computer virus would be one that spreads and other than that just automatically installs ublock origin on every browser it can find, blocks the autoupdate mechanism, then deletes itself

[jonathankoren@sfba.social]

@DrewNaylor it’s the only way to make web useable.

[barubary@infosec.exchange]

@douglaswaynericketts @DrewNaylor Curious! You are very intelligent.

[somekindofgarf@kind.social]

@douglaswaynericketts @DrewNaylor Douglas said, not knowing wtf he was talking about.

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@DrewNaylor

uBlock Origin lite is also available for Chromium based browsers

[mookie@bunnymotorsports.com]

@douglaswaynericketts @DrewNaylor Huh? Did @Mastodon all the sudden implement advertising?

[esreicht@mastodon.social]

@windsorwindsor2 @superblox @DrewNaylor
Adblocking is just self defense

[stephenboylett@techhub.social]

@DrewNaylor Go one further and try ad nauseum!

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@DrewNaylor nobody want ads..so they blocked it ️
There is a device called TV . Ads only delivered to TV.. No in mobile phones

[retrosponge@kind.social]

@DrewNaylor I had cause to browse a single website the other day for about a minute with my ad blocker turned off and my god, how does anyone use this shit anymore?