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[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Adblocking feels to me like it should be illegal, but isn’t. I have adblockers on all my devices and haven’t seen an ad for years; it feels like a secret super power and stopped the web from looking like a trashy back alley.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's weird they don't put more effort into stopping them, TBH. I've heard it's because they'd rather collect extra analytics than do any foolproofing that might interfere with it.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Nah, I pay for my bandwidth, I get to decide what it does and does not get used for. Even if that's not nearly as big a concern as it used to be in like the late 90s, it's the principle of I'm not going to pay for you to shove your garbage down my throat.

And yeah I haven't seen an ad in years and years on PC. People complain about youtube ads and I'm like 'What's that? I watch a lot of youtube and I've not seen an ad in like 10 years.' Sadly on mobile that's a little more complicated, but adding a private dns of 'dns.adguard.com' blocks most things.