Comment on How do I use uBlock to hide threads with certain urls?

• jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hope this helps!

  Ad blocking or ad filtering is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a web browser, an application or a network. This may be done using browser extensions or other methods.

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  • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My original question was badly framed. I know what ad blockers are. I just don’t know why people use them.

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    • Fal@yiffit.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The web is literally unusable without ad blockers. Your question is like asking “why should I stop bashing my face into the wall?”

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    • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because ads are annoying as fuck, slow down websites and collect all kinds of data from your browser to analyze your web browsing behavior and then sell that information to the highest bidder

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So you somehow have never noticed how miserable ads make life/the Internet? Even if you ignore all the privacy and overconsumption concerns, you still have the fact that ads slow down websites tremendously, and often literally obscure content from view. Somehow you’ve used the Internet for decades and that’s all lost on you. Trolldar is going off hard.

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You should hope to never see an ad in your whole life. Obviously that’s impossible, but efforts should be taken to get there

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