this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2025
1000 points (99.4% liked)

memes

18442 readers
3103 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads/AI SlopNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] sus@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's been maintained for over 10 years by now so it shouldn't be going anywhere.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Wow didn't now that. I'm surprised I never heard of it, but I will definitely give it a try.

load more comments (4 replies)