Comment on What the fuck happened to YouTube!?

miridius@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s the latest fad challenge, navigating your way through cancerous web pages

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• yboutros@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t tell him, if too many people get ad blockers they’re just going to keep evolving

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  • miridius@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is that really how it works? I feel like the whole ad based economy is a sham anyway, I wouldn’t mind if it collapsed and we funded websites through micropayments or gift economy

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    • avattar@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Would it be so bad if we want back to how it was before? Just people making their own sites about things they cared about? For fun or the love of the subject matter?

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• SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like this sentence.

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• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  9 times out of 10 the ads have zero effect on my ability to search for things.

  I’m not saying searches haven’t gotten worse but until this specific thing or Google’s ai search it’s been easy to ignore if you know what you’re doing.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember being that guy.
    It never gets better, ads only ever get worse. If you are successfully ignoring ads then they aren’t doing their job, and they will keep trying different ways to get your attention until you get sick of this shit and get an ad blocker.

    You have found a specific thing that would improve, save yourself the hassle and get ublock now to fix this for you as well as a dozen other little things you are “living with” that will be much better when they’re gone.

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    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ublock on Firefox. Remember Google just kneecapped adblockers on Chrome!

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      • miridius@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Firstly it hasn’t actually happened yet, I guess you fell for the misleading windowscentral headline. Secondly it’s not really kneecapped, but required them to rewrite, which the uBO author decided not to do (as a statement I guess). Other ad blockers however have made new MV3 compatible versions that are comparable to the MV2 ones, so it’s clearly possible. Also don’t forget there are other chromium browsers besides chrome, if you use Brave you don’t even need to install an ad blocker because it’s built in.

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    username checks out

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ads aren’t the only thing to worry about. You’re leaving yourself dangerously exposed to malware for literally no reason.

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