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Hardly use my phone for internet, but when I’m away from my PiHole, “WTF is this bullshit?!”

No one talks about it, but internet advertising is a bubble ready to pop. How is a consumer to chose your product, or even begin looking into it, when the they’re overwhelmed by an avalanche of ads? The numbers are in and 73% of ad views are fucking bots.

Don’t know the available alternatives, but soon companies are going to figure their online marketing budget is a total waste.

Reminds me of pinning my buddy down, “How much money is this satellite install business actually making after costs?”

“Fuck this shit. Let’s move to Florida.”

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Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Firefox mobile supports extensions, including uBlock Origin

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- stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This way you also don’t see ads on youtube.
  
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  - tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Revanced still works on android
    
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    SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    As does Newpipe.
    
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merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

“WTF is this bullshit?!”

I think this is literally what I said the other day.

Someone sent me a link for something to buy at a local branch of a national store. The advantage of the link was that it said what aisle of the store the product was in, so I didn’t have to search everywhere once I got there. I opened the link and I literally couldn’t see the page. First of all there was a pop-over ad of some kind obscuring the entire page. Once I closed that, I was confronted with the cookie banner. Once I dealt with that, there was the regular store page filled with its own ads / “promotions”. I had to hunt everywhere to find the one useful bit of data, which was the aisle number. It took me at least 20 seconds from opening the link to being able to find this aisle number and it left me incredibly frustrated.

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slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Doesn’t matter, line must go up 📈

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That was rather my point. Soon enough they’ll realize their online marketing budget isn’t even paying for itself. Line go down.
  
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ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The advertising industry as a whole is the biggest scam ever created

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CommissarKrieg@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Web3 is just a dross. Shitewhole

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- angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Fediverse should’ve been what got called “Web 3.0.” It seeks to correct problems with Web 2.0 (many of the same ones that the blockchain Web3 purpoted to solve even) through new technology. Just as Web 2.0 tried to democratize the internet by emphasizing user generated content, Fediverse seeks to democratize the internet by distributing ownership of the servers.
  
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