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No, not everybody hates ads. Everybody hates today’s ads, because they’re literally as intrusive and annoying as the designers can make them. I didn’t have a problem with ads 15 years ago, but because I have to pay for my bandwidth, and because ads like to literally block what I’m reading with a giant, 100MB, unskippable video, I use an ad blocker.

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Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Unskipable ads when I’m browsing my files on my phone, how fucking obnoxious can you possibly make them?

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- NENathaniel@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Where did u experience this lol, Ive never heard of that
  
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  - Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Xiaomi, that was the worst update ever
    
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  - Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s a xiaomi, phone is great but the software bloat is horrible
    
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- Hardeehar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What phone or service is this? Not in the states right?
  
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- lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Maybe install a different file browser, here’s one I think is nice
  
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  - Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah that’s what I ended up doing, but that never should have happen in the first place
    
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    lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I agree, needing to watch ads to view your own, local, personal files is insane
    
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scurry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I agree with most of that, but I feel like we weren’t using the same Internet 15 years ago. There were still ample popups and popunders, many of which you couldn’t easily close (more than a few did the funny ‘you are an idiot’ trick of just open windows faster than you can close them to me). They were loud, both visually but also they would actually play sound in non-video pages (sometimes multiple at once). Most of them were either disgust or porn based (or the really funny meme of both at the same time). And there were so. Many. Viruses. I feel like advertisers have never been particularly respectful of the end user, and the main difference is that now they’re actively spying, where they maybe weren’t 20 years ago.

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NENathaniel@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Idk, 15 years ago I was watching cable and 1/3 of my time was spent subjected to ads on a paid service. I think I prefer them now lol

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- SIGSEGV@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  We’re talking internet here, bub.
  
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