Too many sites are now crammed with adverts like this it’s revolting. This one is PC Gamer. This is why people use adblockers when it just takes the piss.
ublock origin on my desktop now reports it just crossed having blocked over 6 MILLION ads on my desktop since last year.
I rarely see what the internet looks like without plugins/adblockers anymore because every tiny glimpse I've had reminds me of just how terrible it is. (I also override CSS to make every site use colors I choose)
I seriously don't understand why they don't get this. Instead of fixing the fundamental reasons people first started using ad blockers so that people would just eventually start forgetting even to install them due to lack of necessity, they make things so incredibly obnoxious that we have to not only have them, but start adding custom filters for all that crap.
with the added ' We value your privacy' cookie pop-up. If you valued my privacy, you wouldn't need the popup - or for the EU to force you to provide a page. I now just navigate away from any page that doesn't have a 'reject all' button. I see way less ads as a result!
Pages don't just want to serve you ads, they want targeted (read: stolen data based) ads.
I just held my nose, and paid for YouTube Premium, because it now doesn't work with my adblocker, and it's literally *painful* to use without an adblocker.
I don't like it, but I watch enough YouTube creators, that at present, it's not something I'm willing to just stop using.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •ublock origin on my desktop now reports it just crossed having blocked over 6 MILLION ads on my desktop since last year.
I rarely see what the internet looks like without plugins/adblockers anymore because every tiny glimpse I've had reminds me of just how terrible it is. (I also override CSS to make every site use colors I choose)
mjc0961
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •And they always tell you when you arrive, "PlEaSe CoNiSiDeR dIsaBlInG yOuR aD bLoCkeR"
Please consider making your site useable without an ad blocker!
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •with the added ' We value your privacy' cookie pop-up. If you valued my privacy, you wouldn't need the popup - or for the EU to force you to provide a page. I now just navigate away from any page that doesn't have a 'reject all' button. I see way less ads as a result!
Pages don't just want to serve you ads, they want targeted (read: stolen data based) ads.
worfosaurus
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Do y'all remember in the 2000's when pop ups got so bad that websites stopped using them because we all unanimously hated them so much?
20 years later we're somehow back to that hell hole.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •I just held my nose, and paid for YouTube Premium, because it now doesn't work with my adblocker, and it's literally *painful* to use without an adblocker.
I don't like it, but I watch enough YouTube creators, that at present, it's not something I'm willing to just stop using.
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