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The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I don’t understand how anyone can use the Internet without ublock. I have before, and am about to again, change fuel stations due to them installing those stupid ad playing pumps.
Those are so atrocious. I just found out the closest gas station near my house installed big ass screens on the pumps that are bigger than my largest tablet and have impressively loud speakers. The station previously didn’t have any video screens so when I passed by the screen to unscrew the gas cap, and it started blasting the ad I nearly jumped out of my skin.
I don’t have a clue where another gas station without the ad screens even is. Blegh 😮💨
The ones around me have a big old mute button and I’ve gotten into the habit of hitting that button as gas starts to flow so I don’t hear more than a second or two of whatever garbage they’re playing
…yeah, my wife tells me some stations have started disabling the mute button; haven’t encountered one yet but the day i do is the day i start carrying an icepick to mute those speakers the old-fashioned way…
I have a standing bounty, 1/8oz good weed for proof of dead surveillance infra. One little shit tried turning in three parts off the same plate reader
Anyways, the kids are alright and would probably help you out if properly incentivized ;)
must be expensive to have those screen, first time i saw those gas station “tvs” was during trumps 1st term, at least the news was playing a tthe time.
The pumps around here in the middle state have all muted their ads or at least have the volumes turned way down. When I drive somewhere else they catch me off guard.
it wont block twitch ads, they seed it to thier videos, so it somewhat unblockable. i heard its expensive, thats why google doesnt do it.
Apparently car/house keys can fit into the speaker slots and kill the sound.
Seeing those was one of the more dystopian experiences I had when visiting the US a while back. The entire concept was absolutely insane to me.
Some of the fuel pumps have a hidden mute option. The 2nd button from the top right usually mutes them for me.
I’ve tried all the buttons with no luck. But also, I’m just going to vote with my wallet and stop doing business with them for doing stupid stuff like that.
Damarus@feddit.org 1 day ago
Yeah but uBlock can’t or at least doesn’t block Twitch ads, so that doesn’t really apply here.
rozodru@piefed.world 1 day ago
it does but with Twitch it’s a constant battle. you can go for days or weeks on end and it’ll work great then boom a few days to a week and it won’t work anymore until the maintainers figure out yet another way to circumvent twitch ads.
It just got to a point for me where I just stopped using twitch. I mean the site overall and the content/streamers have just gotten a lot worse in the past few years and there’s really nothing on there anymore worth watching.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
other than Main official of the game companies, STREAMERS themselves started leaning politically and grifting from it.
Redacted@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You can add a little string of text to ublock and itll work again. Havent seen an ad nonconsentually in years on there
scbasteve@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dont say you can do it, and not share it man. Spill the beans
pticrix@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Here you go fellow seafarer github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions
Redacted@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Ill link it when i get off work
Occultist0178@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Of course it does, I have never seen an ad in Twitch, thus is it course in Firefox, don’t know how it works in Chrome with the messed up adblock system 🤷
Damarus@feddit.org 1 day ago
Sorry but that’s just wrong. Ads on Twitch are forced in a way that can’t be easily bypassed locally. That’s why stuff like Twitch AdSolutions exists. The common workaround is using a proxy server in countries that don’t get ads, maybe you live in one of those.
pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
I used to support testing the adblock solutions from Pixeltris some years ago when Twitch actively starting fighting adblockers. It turned out the only reliable way is to use a proxy or VPN of a country that doesnt serve ads via amazons ad system. Mostly small countries where it’s not worth place advertisments. I am using eithe czech, polish or Luxembourg IPs and usually dont get any ads this way anymore as there are no corporstions using their af service.
Occultist0178@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh it seems that you are right, I didn’t know that, I thought it was just blocked through ublock. Thanks for your comment
lime@feddit.nu 1 day ago
ublock can too block twitch ads, because it can run adsolutions itself. it’s even on that page you linked.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Thank you. I just stopped using that website overall, because of all the ads thrown down my throat.