Do you run an AdBlocker?

malachi · 8 Jan 2021 at 15:55

Added Pihole into the mix now at home. Shame it doesn't block YT ads as my girlfriend doesn't have YT premium but browsing on my iDevices is a nicer experience.

R.C.Anderson · 8 Jan 2021 at 16:03

I have pihole running for most stuff, then adblock plus on my PC browser.

For Youtube on my phone/tablet, I use youtube vanced.

dirtychinchilla · 8 Jan 2021 at 16:05

bloodiedathame said:
How strange, I watched Raised by Wolves and there weren't any, but Watchmen there were tonnes. Maybe it's channel specific?

I haven't used it in browser to be fair, just on the Sky Q box. Raised by Wolves is great

R.C.Anderson · 8 Jan 2021 at 16:09

bloodiedathame said:
It makes me laugh that people pay for Sky and then get presented with unskippable adverts on their catch up platforms. That's some muggy ****.

I got a Nowtv subscription for a year with a Vodafone contract a couple years ago, and it had the same issue. A paid for on-demand service, and there were completely unrelated, unskipable adds before shows etc. Ended up probably only watching a few hours of it before giving up on it.

bloodiedathame · 8 Jan 2021 at 16:43

dirtychinchilla said:
I haven't used it in browser to be fair, just on the Sky Q box. Raised by Wolves is great

My experience has only been on the Sky app on PS4.

Angilion · 8 Jan 2021 at 18:09

Ice Tea said:
Google Chrome browser privacy plan investigated in UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55219750

Should make browsing faster...

Google actively promoting privacy is about as believable as Elvis beaming down from an alien spaceship to make me a cup of tea. Their plan will be to ensure that Google gets even more power and an even bigger slice of the personal information pie. Google wants more control, not less.

Malevolence · 9 Jan 2021 at 06:31

bloodiedathame said:
It makes me laugh that people pay for Sky and then get presented with unskippable adverts on their catch up platforms. That's some muggy ****.

I don't pay for any TV packages, but buying DVDs/Blu-rays and then being forced to sit through unskippable anti-piracy warnings is what boils my ****.

Ice Tea · 9 Jan 2021 at 10:34

Angilion said:
Google actively promoting privacy is about as believable as Elvis beaming down from an alien spaceship to make me a cup of tea. Their plan will be to ensure that Google gets even more power and an even bigger slice of the personal information pie. Google wants more control, not less.

The developer of Brave browser is a Hypocrite for promoting AD tracking protection while adding how own affiliate links to the code base....

robgmun · 9 Jan 2021 at 11:30

malachi said:
Added Pihole into the mix now at home. Shame it doesn't block YT ads as my girlfriend doesn't have YT premium but browsing on my iDevices is a nicer experience.

Magic Actions, you can thank me later

R.C.Anderson said:
For Youtube on my phone/tablet, I use youtube vanced.

I can vouch for this, excellent programme

malachi · 9 Jan 2021 at 12:07

robgmun said:
Magic Actions, you can thank me later

Thats another browser plug in

but ublock and adblock already does this for me.

Angilion · 9 Jan 2021 at 17:38

Ice Tea said:
The developer of Brave browser is a Hypocrite for promoting AD tracking protection while adding how own affiliate links to the code base....

Is that true? I don't know. But what does it have to do with Google?

Ice Tea · 9 Jan 2021 at 23:10

Angilion said:
Google actively promoting privacy is about as believable as Elvis beaming down from an alien spaceship to make me a cup of tea. Their plan will be to ensure that Google gets even more power and an even bigger slice of the personal information pie. Google wants more control, not less.

Ice Tea said:
The developer of Brave browser is a Hypocrite for promoting AD tracking protection while adding how own affiliate links to the code base....

Angilion said:
Is that true?

Google "brave browser affiliate links"

2,710,000 results

Brave browser CEO apologizes for automatically adding affiliate links to cryptocurrency URLs

The privacy-focused browser has come under criticism from users , Brave, the open-source browser designed to prioritize privacy by blocking third-party ads and trackers.

Angilion said:
But what does it have to do with Google?

I thought the correlation between the duplicate behaviour of promoting privacy while having other intentions was self-explanatory?

Pawnless Endgame · 10 Jan 2021 at 02:35

Mekrel said:
I have zero remorse or guilt for doing this. The number of connected 3rd party domains connected on sites is frankly ludicrous.

This is the main reason I use Firefox on Andoid too.

Exactly!

I had no remorse in blocking ads 20 years ago either. There were pop-up ads and they were the scourge of the WWW back then. Also, remember that Netscape, Mozilla and Firefox are essentially the same program. Around 2001, Netscape became open-sourced as Mozilla. The significance of this is that Mozilla had a built in pop-up blocker and also tabbed browsing, again significant but irrelevant to this thread. Internet Explorer (Netscape/Mozilla's main rival) didn't offer pop-up blocking or tabbed browsing until half a decade later later with IE7! By then, Mozilla had become Mozilla Firefox (or just Firefox).

Angilion · 10 Jan 2021 at 04:51

Ice Tea said:
[..] I thought the correlation between the duplicate behaviour of promoting privacy while having other intentions was self-explanatory?

The correlation may be but the relevance isn't. I never said that Google is the only company who does anything like that. I mentioned only Google. You mentioned only Brave.

Also, it's not "duplicate behaviour" because:

1) Brave publishes their code so anyone can examine it.
2) It was autocompleting a specific URL with an affiliate code when the URL was typed in manually, which is way less than what Google does. It's like saying that a small group of low hills is a duplicate of the Himalayas.
3) They made a public apology and stopped doing it.

Ice Tea · 19 Apr 2021 at 07:52

How product placements may soon be added to classic films

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56758376

I feel like i've heard about this before so it might be old news?

HippoTank · 19 Apr 2021 at 11:45

the whole "website owners and content creators deserve to be paid so watch ads" is a load of ********. I own websites, and create content, but you dont do it to force ads and receive payment. Ublock Origin all the way

MookJong · 19 Apr 2021 at 12:11

R.C.Anderson said:
For Youtube on my phone/tablet, I use youtube vanced.

Installed this and you've changed my life...

413x · 19 Apr 2021 at 12:34

Sometimes I click on Facebook links and I just leave behind because pages are absolutely rammed with ads.

I'd turn it off if it was unintrusive. But it's just ridiculous

YouTube is ridiculous now. An ad at start, fine, I can handle that. Random ads mid way through? I'm using it less and less

Werewolf · 19 Apr 2021 at 13:15

Ice Tea said:
How product placements may soon be added to classic films

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56758376

I feel like i've heard about this before so it might be old news?

IIRC it's been suggested repeatedly in the past by different companies but not generally done because the cost of doing it and remaking the distribution materials and especially in countries where you have to pay for age certification for any changes at all means that the profit from doing it is generally going to wiped out by the new expenses most of the time.

It's one of these "great" profit making ideas that pops up again every now and then.

Digital X · 19 Apr 2021 at 13:26

Ublock Origin on PC, I download a lot of mods for ETS2/ATS and most are hosted on sharemods.com which loves popups. Just downloading Youtube vanced, although in the Google Play store it shows up as vanced Kit etc? it is the right one?