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• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I believe that ads are just yet another tragedy of the commons type of thing, where bad actors not only ruin it for everyone, but also convert good actors to being bad actors.

  I’d say there’s three tiers:

  • Ads showing you things you actually want or need, and providing you with new information.
    • These are going to have high CPMs, so you don’t need many per page, and having more per page will decrease their value, but kind of require tracking to ensure their relevance.
  • Ads showing you things you might not want or need, but might cobsider buying, or information that isn’t immediately relevant.
    • This is the baseline for reasonable quality, untargeted ads, and CPMs for these are going to be fairly low, but much higher if you click on them
  • Ads promoting scams, malware, and things you neither want nor need.
    • In this case, the CPMs will be virtually zero, so the site is forced to cram as many on the page as they can. They’re also encouraged to get you to click by mistake.
    • This makes people block ads or trackers, reducing the number of ads in the first category and forcing more sites to adopt these patterns.

  It’s kind of sad that it’s going this way (and has been for a while) but I guess it’s going to end up with just a return to paying for media with money rather than ads.

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  • Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I see all ads as scams in my eyes, and most major companies are the scammers.

    ads from (name a company)…you’re being scammed… products are cheaply made, fail, low quality and riddled with lies/fake words and misleading text.

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• ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you’re still skipping, take the next step and start blocking.

  pi-hole.net

  github.com/gorhill/uBlock

  revanced.app

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  • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Also you can get sponsor block for youtube and it auto skips sponsored segments.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also, for ad-blocking on your phone on the go, pair your Pi-Hole with a Wireguard VPN where you connect your phone to the VPN to pass your phone traffic through your Pi-Hole DNS. I have this set up for my phone, and it’s tits.

    www.wireguard.com

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    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I use Rethink for my phone and it’s pretty good. I don’t have a VPN yet so it works for now.

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    • Willoughby@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Indubidubly, and a cherry on top. Not only is Pi-hole an Adblocking DNS server, it’s also a DNS server and solves any issue with name resolution at the door for your services.

      dns certs? Pihole’s got you.

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  • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Mullvad has built in ad-blocking as well. Haven’t needed my pi-hole in over a year.

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• diemartin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Remember kids: despite what the ad industry may claim, they’re running arbitrary code on your devices, so it’s your moral duty to not so politely tell them to fuck off

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• DigDoug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Ads are one of the biggest vectors for malware. Even if the main reason you’re blocking them is just because they’re annoying, it’s one of the best things you can do for online safety. Also, the reason tech companies are collecting every single piece of data they can about you is to serve you more targeted ads - if every ad was blocked, data brokers would have no reason to exist.

  If you’re running an OPNSense or PFSense router, put Adguard on it. If you’ve got a Raspberry Pi lying around, install Pihole on it. Stop using Chrome and install UBlock Origin on your new browser. Do your small part to make the internet a safer place, and get shown less advertising to boot.

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• MumboJumbo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  For in-video sponsors, I remapped my mouse side buttons to the left and right arrow keys - that way I can easily skip forward/backward in 5-sec intervals. I highly recommend it.

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  • kinsnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

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• bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Drink verification can

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