Whenever I use a browser without adblock, it takes me back to the early 2000s, and not in a good way.

My colleague uses chrome like Google intended and every time she shares her screen I question her sanity. Terminal instead of iTerm, ok. Not using oh my zsh, well, if you insist. But that? You can barely identify the information you're looking for between all that screaming nonsense.

I gave up trying to get my wife to use anything that blocks ads, and she won't switch away chrome. When she bakes, she leaves her tablet or phone open, with multiple video ads destroying her battery. Seeing this thing just turns my brain to mush as I don't see any ads. I don't know how she puts up with having ten video ads on one page.

When I'm not using computers behind my three layers of filters I have here at home.. I feel very sad for the internet.

I will go to many lengths to avoid ads. I never use the YT app for example unless I’m on my desktop which has multiple ad blocking extensions and containers. Been using Yattee for iOS that plays nice with nvidious or piped

Get fucked advertisers

I got onto the YouTube vanced train back in 2018 and every now and then I hop on desktop YouTube and it's soo jaring.

so of course I have ublock origin on my computer, AdAway on my phone and pihole on my network, but the school computers actually prevent you from installing any adblocking extensions

anyway at school I see a lot of "download Wave Browser/OneLaunch/PC app store/other random crapware" ads and videos in the corner and I can barely read anything on the site

I’ve been doing it for so many years across all devices and platforms that I actually get…confused for a second when one slips through. It is normally YouTube that slips through (they seem to be trying new things almost daily to get around any possible ad blocks), but sometimes it is from a major news web site or something. I actually have to look around for a second and then realize what has just happened.

I think the worst ads are the text to speech ones that say "Download this app today".

Dear god, they read themselves to you now?!? Kill it with fire!!

I want the creator drawn and quartered.

Everyone here is so passionately hating ad's. I haven't felt that upset about ad's since I was a teenager back in like 2004.

I use adblocker for my browser cause I don't want spyware/malware. But watching TV ad's is interesting to me. I keep seeing comments about people being complete idiots who just settled and they just take it from the advertisers...

That couldn't be farther from the truth for someone like me. I enjoy nostalgia a lot. So I got a live tv package with regular cable tv channels and there are ad's. I did this on purpose though. I am not some idiot who has been brainwashed. I just find advertising interesting in general.

Seems like a lot of commenters here would think of me as some kind of monster. Why, I'm not sure. I guess cause ad's are some kind of big bad we all have to fight against?

Someone here mentioned that people work on those ad's and I think that's part of why I enjoy them. Because technically, that's often someone's artwork. I'm in favor of more animated commercials too.

But I get it. Consumerism = bad.

Just feels like more like "no fun allowed"

I signed up to Vessel [1] when they were giving out the 1 year free trial, and it was only 9 months or so in that I realised that it had ads. It was kinda jarring, especially for a paid (not that I did) service.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vessel_(website)

What? What ads?

I set up a pihole and installed revanced on my mom's phone. She was surprised when I mentioned that YouTube has ads once haha.

Idk I just pay for stuff if I like it so no ads. Like including DVDs or streaming services. Or I use FOSS and everything's good.

Only time I ever see actual ads anymore are when I'm out and about and see billboards, when my parents are watching TV, or when I go to furaffinity on TOR for some NSFW images.

I'm fine with the ads on FA since they're at the top and bottom of the pages and not intrusive at all and aren't really much more than ads for probably shitty games (minus the Brok the Investigator ads) and art commission services the vast majority of the time.

That's because it is.

I often forget they even exist