Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Are Ad-Blockers Saving Or Ruining the Internet?

Ad-blockers may seem like an answer to an internet user's prayers. No annoying pop-ups, no promos before videos and no concerns about accidentally clicking on a virus.

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I'd say ruining; I can tolerate some annoying ads or even agree to paid subscriptions on a very few selected news sites but I hate it, on a site like Drudge when virtually every article you click on hasa pay wall or demands that you turb off your ad blocker, which would be fine, except their instructions on how to do that never work. I think I just want to delete all ad blockers from my system; if I can actually figure out how to do yhat and allow ads which might be annoying but better than being locked from reading so much information.

#1 | Posted by danni at 2024-10-29 12:24 PM

A bit gob smacked, clicked on the link and no pop up.

#2 | Posted by mattm at 2024-10-29 01:23 PM

I dropped off Meta about a year ago due to the incessant ads and political content of acquaintances.

#3 | Posted by mattm at 2024-10-29 01:25 PM

I'm most excited for Ad Blocking built into AR glasses. Then every billboard, poster, and campaign sign will be automatically removed and replaced with something you actually want to look at.

#4 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-10-29 03:52 PM

"Then every billboard, poster, and campaign sign will be automatically removed and replaced with something you actually want to look at." -

Posted by sitzkrieg

Something like this?

#5 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-29 03:57 PM

... Are Ad-Blockers Saving Or Ruining the Internet? ...

That depends upon what you think "the Internet" is, or should be?

If you think that the Internet should be little more than a personal-data harvesting system for the corporate world, then I'd opine that ad blockers are not helping in that goal.


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-29 05:51 PM

Saving the internet. I use Brave browser, no annoying ads.

#7 | Posted by bat4255 at 2024-10-29 06:05 PM

fAIRLY recently my subscriptiion to Ad Block Plus was expiring but I noticed their ads trying to convince me to renew mysubscription were far more annoying than any of the ads that it blocked were.

#8 | Posted by danni at 2024-10-29 06:12 PM

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