Hey companies, please fck off 😽

[stux@mstdn.social]

Hey companies, please fck off

[ei3jdb@mastodon.radio]

@stux Please type the word "adblocker" into your favourite search engine. There are many to choose from. I go days or weeks without seeing online ads.

And there's always a way.

[drnobody@autonomous.zone]

@EI3JDB @stux I don't think stux was referring to ads, mate

[wildeyedboyfromfreecloud@masto.ai]

@stux Yes, please.

[stux@mstdn.social]

@drnobody @EI3JDB Indeed I never go on the web without a blocker

[heliograph@mastodon.au]

@stux it is INCREDIBLE how all their sh!t buttons "USE ME" "DO AI NOW" etc etc get bigger and bigger by the week, now almost taking up 3/4 of the screen realestate, thus blanking out the actual functions you are trying to get to (စ__စ )`
@benroyce (*probs because I NEVER clicked)

[raphaelmorgan@disabled.social]

@EI3JDB @stux why do you talk to people like this? Does it ever make you positive connections or does it just make you feel superior?

[numodular@c.im]

@stux This pulls double duty, because even organic misery, loves company.

[ei3jdb@mastodon.radio]

@raphaelmorgan @stux Neither. A lot of people don't know about adblockers, unfortunately - I'm trying to help.

Sorry if that wasn't clear to you.

[raphaelmorgan@disabled.social]

@EI3JDB @stux a lot of people, sure, but not a lot of fedi admins. The reply came off (to me anyway) as condescending, mostly because of the way you phrased it. The suggestion of using an ad-blocker would have still been not particularly useful in this case, but something like "I use an ad-blocker and rarely see that" would've at least seemed like you just misunderstood and were actually trying to help. Talking like OP doesn't know how search engines work doesn't

[oatrapado@mastodon.social]

@stux same with advertising