#ad

[azonenberg@ioc.exchange]

@ShadowJonathan I have literally stopped watching youtube outright for a few days whenever their ads started getting through ublock and I couldn't find a way to bypass it in a couple of minutes.

I checked back a week later and it was back to normal. But I will absolutely stop using your service rather than be advertised to.

[kasdeya@cryptid.cafe]

@helenaisvibing@tech.lgbt @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt that's when you get some slaps and cover up the ads

[babblinggeek@infosec.exchange]

@ShadowJonathan whenever companies call my personal cell phone for a cold call they go in my email discard filter for eternity

[michaelcoyote@mastodon.social]

@ShadowJonathan big same.

[smashedratonpress@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ShadowJonathan Thanks for posting this image from @dragongirlteeth. Reflects with uncanny accuracy my own attitude about advertising. (Especially ads that move or make noise.) I haven't yet gone so far as moving to Tristan da Cunha to avoid ads, but with multiple ad-blockers, blinders, and a bit /etc/hosts denial file I'm doing pretty well these days. I can't even imagine how people function on the internet without blockers.
#noads

[awiltedrose@packmates.org]

@ShadowJonathan advertising is spiritual warfare and i will always treat it like what it is

[ergifruit@mas.to]

always remember, the ads just have to play when your favorite podcasts/creators have an ad read. you can mute that shit. go to second screen. alt + tab it and read a wiki article for 2.5 minutes. everyone wins, except the advertisers, and that's what's really important.

[lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza]

@melioristicmarie, that image looked right – until I started properly reading it, which led to me noticing that its creator has used “everyday” instead of “every day”.

I have something of an allergy to errors like that.

[thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zone]

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt If there was a possibility to punish every person responsible for an ad stealing my screen estate, computing power, time, and attention with an equally intrusive rickroll on their end every single time one of their abominations shows up, I would.

[piggo@piggo.space]

@ShadowJonathan finally installed a browser with adblock on my moms phone these holidays. i hope she will use it

[nanianmichaels@tech.lgbt]

@ShadowJonathan @OvertonDoors @redsad I've basically stopped watching TV and listening to the radio, because these days it feels like there's 5 minutes of ads for each 5 minutes of content.

I get the important news the next day, at work. If it's important enough, people will be talking about it.

I only watch video and listen to music from sources that either have no ads by default (AKA my NAS), or where I can adblock them to oblivion.

And that same adblock is permanently turned on network-wide for all sites, it's IMO the only sane way to be online.

If it's an unskippable ad or a "we'll only let you see this if you pay is or let us track you" site, guess what, the information you're carrying is always available elsewhere.

You do NOT have a say on how I consume content, or what I'm exposed to when I consume it.

The more people realize that, the faster we'll get a better Internet for everyone.

[nanianmichaels@tech.lgbt]

@ShadowJonathan @OvertonDoors @redsad Oh, and even on YT, you can bet I run SponsorBlock turned to the max settings on all channels.

Again, you do not get to dictate what I view, **I** do. And while you're at it, keep the interaction reminders to yourself, as well as self-plugs and gargantuan intros and endings.

[obscurestar@mastodon.social]

@ShadowJonathan If you're able to use a soldering iron, may I suggest: https://www.instructables.com/4-DIY-TV-B-Gone/

Will cost you about $5 (maybe $20 in Trumpland) and it will stop advertisements, FOX news and other lie machines in most public spaces.

Of course, this administration will also probably have me declared a terrorist for spreading this information.

[wakingrufus@bigshoulders.city]

@ShadowJonathan
Imagine using the web with no ad blocker... I know some people who do this and I just can't understand it. I had to do it once recently and I almost threw my computer across the room.

[beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@ShadowJonathan I rarely buy the products, never actually. I love the marketing strategy of commercials and there are some pretty phenomenal ones out there right now.

[stevenaleach@sigmoid.social]

@ShadowJonathan I'll add to that: If I wind up hearing your ad and actually notice and remember the name of your product or service, I will boycott your company for the rest of my life.

I don't encounter ads much these days, but still will *never* buy any "name brand" I remember commercials for when I was a kid.

I'll go out of my way to buy "generic" products in order not to reward advertising and brand promotion.

[patrascan@ohai.social]

@azonenberg @ShadowJonathan I stopped watching TV on any/every platform decades ago. My life is rich and rewarding without TV. Plus I have time galore to read books .

[stevenaleach@sigmoid.social]

@ShadowJonathan @OvertonDoors @redsad

Yup. I won't own a TV.

And years back I had a car in which I removed the radio's tuning knob so passengers would quit trying to tune away from NPR.

Of course these days the only ads I *can't* escape are *on* NPR.

[stevenaleach@sigmoid.social]

@nanianmichaels @ShadowJonathan @OvertonDoors @redsad SponsorBlock, last I looked at it, is a disappointment: I don't want to block sponsor messages, I want to block ALL videos that HAVE sponsor messages. SponsorBlock has that information - any video with marked sponsor times - but I can't use it to remove all of those videos from the search results.

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@ShadowJonathan this is the minimum, standard, default behaviour for anyone faced with non consensual ads or media of any kind.

I dont think anybody exists who does not engage with this appropriately. if there is such a person then I think they will not be here for long.