I get what they're doing with the lens flare or whatever, but I feel like illustrating the glasses like that just doesn't work in a still shot. Looks like he's wearing a white eye patch or something.
My wife doesn't use an ad blocker. I installed a pihole about 6 years ago and she got so incensed, and demanded I remove it. Eventually I carved out a rule on the router to assign her a different DNS server. I just don't get it.
I have a similar storyā¦ But first off, you can do that directly through the piholeās UI. No need to set up custom DNS stuff just for her. Just create an empty blocklist, and assign her devices to only use that list. Multiple blocklists are also handy if you have kids, because you can set things like porn blocklists, and only assign them to the kidsā devices. So you can still jork it when you want, without the kids being able to accidentally stumble across anything.
I have a basic blocklist for guests as well, which is the default list for any new device that connects to my guest network. It selectively blocks some of the more invasive BS but doesnāt block some of the more āthis will make things on your device stop workingā trackers, like how some Google devices refuse to work unless you allow their trackers.
Iām pretty sure you can even set lists to default based on an IP range? Like if you have multiple subnets for different VLANs, you can set a default list (or lists) for each VLAN. So like you can have an IoT VLAN with a default āstop phoning home, I just want to be able to cast to youā type of blocklist. Then your guest VLAN can have its own default list. And your personal devices can have their own list as well. I havenāt personally dug into that yet, but itās on my list of future projects.
My wife was annoyed with my dual piholes until I got some basic whitelists dialed in for her. Sheās a stock Android user, and my Google blocklist broke basically all of her phoneās native appsā¦ Because Googleās invasive tracking is fully wormed through all of them.
It basically took an evening of us hunt-and-peckāing our way through her phoneās blocked requests, whitelisting one thing at a time to see what was necessary and what was just tracking BS. I set her up with an automatic VPN that connected whenever she was away from the house, so she was always connected to the home network, and always protected by the pihole. Once we got that figured out, (and she learned to stop clicking the damned sponsored Google search results, which fail to connect with the pihole), she basically stopped noticing it. She got used to having it. She started taking it for grantedā¦
We recently moved, and I havenāt had time to set my media/server stuff back up yet. Iām just running the basic ISP modem/router for the time being. And now that she got used to the pihole, she has been hit with whiplash because sheās suddenly seeing ads again. She visited her usual World of Warcraft site, and was like āwhat the fuck is this? The damned site is basically unusableā¦ā She insists on using Chrome, (because itās what her phone uses, and she wants to sync between the two), so I was only able to install the lite version of uBlock Origins as a stopgap, because Google intentionally broke the full version.
What really got her was when she noticed our Roku TVās idle screen suddenly had ads. She was like āwhat the hell do you mean the goddamned TV has built-in ads? We arenāt even watching anything right now! Itās just the fucking sleep screen!ā
Yes dear, why do you think I insisted on setting the pihole up years ago? Ads are invasive, and you donāt even realize how bad it is until youāre out. Once you get used to living without them, going back is rough.
It's AdBlocker, BUT actually, what it does is "click" on all the ads. Every adclick costs the advertisers, and makes targeting ads meaningless because of all the noise. From your end, nothing has changed, the ads are gone... but from the advertisers end, you're costing them more money and making their data useless.
Is it reliable? Ad-blocking is a cat and mouse game and to actually have a useable ad-blocker it needs to be well maintained over a long period of time (for example like ublock origin).
Their concept looks nice, but they are researchers and I'm a bit afraid that they just drop that, write a paper about it and that's it. If there is no constant maintenance this will likely stop blocking YouTube Ads once Google deploys the next changes.
Update: checked the repo and it's actually a fork of ublock origin, so it should (for now) be pretty similar, but still they would have to keep maintaining that.
I don't like the term "NPC", but like... the adridden experience they just endure without just googling "how to stop ads" makes me really wanna call them "NPCs"
The other day I had to use a browser without any plugins to go to a site, and it was unrecognizable with all the ads. When I normally visit it's clean and simple. These ads pushed content under the fold. Horrible.
Whenever I disable it to access a feature that breaks under it, I remember how cursed these sites have become. Reminds me of just before pop-up blockers were common.
If the ads actually targeted me with things I'd actually like, instead of trying to manipulate me, I'd probably care less. But they don't, because shareholders want larger margins.
I miss policeman. It was the best blocker addon. Fine-grained easy control.
Brave does well.
For watching video, use a media player (e.g. mpv + yt-dlp). No ads (except what the content creator added to the video itself... in which case, tap the cursor keys to skip, no problem).
Maybe those who don't block adverts just don't know. Like an animal born in captivity. Like a fish oblivious to water. We can escape, we can evolve, show them the better life awaiting them. :)
I have basic Adblockers just so I donāt have to deal with the clutter, but Iām not a bitch about ads. If a YouTube vid had ads I just hit the skip if I can, or sit through it. If an ad pops up while Iām scrolling through whatever news or media site, I just scroll past or click through and brush it off.
These people who act like theyāre being abused or tortured because they have to look at an ad or watch a few commercials make no sense to me. It reeks of entitlement.
Just because the internet is filled with information doesnāt mean itās free. It costs money to write articles and make videos. If weāre not paying them with cash then weāre paying them with a little time or consideration.
As long as the ads arenāt obnoxiously loud or animated or otherwise irritating, theyāre just part of the experience.
But then I grew up pre-internet, when you had no choice but to sit through 10 minutes worth of commercials to enjoy 20 minutes worth of tv episodes.
At least TV ads could be entertaining back in the day, but modern internet ads are both boring and obnoxious. One minute you're watching Invader Zim the next you're watching Billy advertise a burger press, nostalgia.
57 Comments
Armand1@lemmy.world · 103 pts · 254d
Playing through Persona 3 Reload at the moment. Not come across this gem yet but I have come across this:
meejle@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 254d
Armand1@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 254d
I genuinely said "beep boop" in this scene and she did not appreciate the joke. š
Dumhuvud@programming.dev · 19 pts · 254d
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 253d
I get what they're doing with the lens flare or whatever, but I feel like illustrating the glasses like that just doesn't work in a still shot. Looks like he's wearing a white eye patch or something.
Linearity@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 254d
ROG ALLY USER DETECTED??
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 254d
Going for the evil ending, are we?
Observer@infosec.pub · 16 pts · 254d
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 254d
wtf
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 254d
Want to be cloooooooooose
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.works · 54 pts · 254d
My wife doesn't use an ad blocker. I installed a pihole about 6 years ago and she got so incensed, and demanded I remove it. Eventually I carved out a rule on the router to assign her a different DNS server. I just don't get it.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 254d
I have a similar storyā¦ But first off, you can do that directly through the piholeās UI. No need to set up custom DNS stuff just for her. Just create an empty blocklist, and assign her devices to only use that list. Multiple blocklists are also handy if you have kids, because you can set things like porn blocklists, and only assign them to the kidsā devices. So you can still jork it when you want, without the kids being able to accidentally stumble across anything.
I have a basic blocklist for guests as well, which is the default list for any new device that connects to my guest network. It selectively blocks some of the more invasive BS but doesnāt block some of the more āthis will make things on your device stop workingā trackers, like how some Google devices refuse to work unless you allow their trackers.
Iām pretty sure you can even set lists to default based on an IP range? Like if you have multiple subnets for different VLANs, you can set a default list (or lists) for each VLAN. So like you can have an IoT VLAN with a default āstop phoning home, I just want to be able to cast to youā type of blocklist. Then your guest VLAN can have its own default list. And your personal devices can have their own list as well. I havenāt personally dug into that yet, but itās on my list of future projects.
My wife was annoyed with my dual piholes until I got some basic whitelists dialed in for her. Sheās a stock Android user, and my Google blocklist broke basically all of her phoneās native appsā¦ Because Googleās invasive tracking is fully wormed through all of them.
It basically took an evening of us hunt-and-peckāing our way through her phoneās blocked requests, whitelisting one thing at a time to see what was necessary and what was just tracking BS. I set her up with an automatic VPN that connected whenever she was away from the house, so she was always connected to the home network, and always protected by the pihole. Once we got that figured out, (and she learned to stop clicking the damned sponsored Google search results, which fail to connect with the pihole), she basically stopped noticing it. She got used to having it. She started taking it for grantedā¦
We recently moved, and I havenāt had time to set my media/server stuff back up yet. Iām just running the basic ISP modem/router for the time being. And now that she got used to the pihole, she has been hit with whiplash because sheās suddenly seeing ads again. She visited her usual World of Warcraft site, and was like āwhat the fuck is this? The damned site is basically unusableā¦ā She insists on using Chrome, (because itās what her phone uses, and she wants to sync between the two), so I was only able to install the lite version of uBlock Origins as a stopgap, because Google intentionally broke the full version.
What really got her was when she noticed our Roku TVās idle screen suddenly had ads. She was like āwhat the hell do you mean the goddamned TV has built-in ads? We arenāt even watching anything right now! Itās just the fucking sleep screen!ā
Yes dear, why do you think I insisted on setting the pihole up years ago? Ads are invasive, and you donāt even realize how bad it is until youāre out. Once you get used to living without them, going back is rough.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 17 pts · 254d
She probably also feasts on AI slop. Just gobbling that shit up.
VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 15 pts · 254d
She ever give a reason, or nah?
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 254d
If itās not about getting points in games for watching ads then thereās never a reason given.
PoopingCough@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 254d
Mine literally got upset that she wasn't seeing/able to click on the sponsored google results...
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 253d
Time to get a divorce
dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 46 pts · 254d
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 38 pts · 254d
Yesterday I sat across a woman on the subway who had to rapidly tap her smartphone's screen every few minutes to stop loud video ads.
Was tempted to lecture her about the existance of adblockers. (But didn't, following established subway etiquette...)
superduperpirate@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 254d
Sheās apparently never heard of earbuds either
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 20 pts · 254d
She didn't watch videos, just scrolling and reading.
Only interrupted by regular autoplay video-ads from hell...
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 254d
Jesus. I don't think an adblocker would help if she couldn't manage the fucking volume buttons.
Lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink and all that.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 254d
Good time to mention this if you don't already use it, or if you do use blockers, maybe consider this:
https://adnauseam.io/
It's AdBlocker, BUT actually, what it does is "click" on all the ads. Every adclick costs the advertisers, and makes targeting ads meaningless because of all the noise. From your end, nothing has changed, the ads are gone... but from the advertisers end, you're costing them more money and making their data useless.
wischi@programming.dev · 11 pts · 254d
Is it reliable? Ad-blocking is a cat and mouse game and to actually have a useable ad-blocker it needs to be well maintained over a long period of time (for example like ublock origin).
Their concept looks nice, but they are researchers and I'm a bit afraid that they just drop that, write a paper about it and that's it. If there is no constant maintenance this will likely stop blocking YouTube Ads once Google deploys the next changes.
Update: checked the repo and it's actually a fork of ublock origin, so it should (for now) be pretty similar, but still they would have to keep maintaining that.
sus@programming.dev · 11 pts · 254d
It's been maintained for over 10 years by now so it shouldn't be going anywhere.
wischi@programming.dev · 3 pts · 253d
Wow didn't now that. I'm surprised I never heard of it, but I will definitely give it a try.
sus@programming.dev · 1 pts · 254d
theneverfox@pawb.social · 5 pts · 253d
It's not that cut and dry. Yes, it brings the ad industry ever so slightly closer to collapse...
But until then, you're just helping Google sell ad buys faster and pumping up their metrics
Google has gotten fined for doing exactly this fraudulently multiple times to juice their numbers
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
That's... Beautiful.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 254d
thingAmaBob@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 254d
For real. No one else in my life uses Adblocker, so when I visit, Iām reminded of how horrible ads have gotten.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 253d
I don't like the term "NPC", but like... the adridden experience they just endure without just googling "how to stop ads" makes me really wanna call them "NPCs"
theneverfox@pawb.social · 6 pts · 253d
Any term we pick is going to be offensive. We're gesturing at the concept of them being less human than us
But like... It's kind of true. It's like they don't experience the world around them, they just adapt to it without comment like a Sim
They just seem like they're missing the spark. NPC is probably a kinder term than what we'd come up with otherwise
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 254d
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 21 pts · 254d
The other day I had to use a browser without any plugins to go to a site, and it was unrecognizable with all the ads. When I normally visit it's clean and simple. These ads pushed content under the fold. Horrible.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 253d
I'll never understand how people just rawdog the internet like that
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 254d
Whenever I disable it to access a feature that breaks under it, I remember how cursed these sites have become. Reminds me of just before pop-up blockers were common.
lonlazarus@lemmy.sdf.org · 10 pts · 254d
Reminds me of talking to a tech bro excited to give Google more information so his ads are more accurately targeted to him.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 253d
If the ads actually targeted me with things I'd actually like, instead of trying to manipulate me, I'd probably care less. But they don't, because shareholders want larger margins.
theneverfox@pawb.social · 2 pts · 253d
True... Except there's a big problem with that
There's not many things I would want that I'm not aware of
So would they going to show me 2 ads a day, or would the same 4 things be plastered everywhere each week?
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 253d
You're not wrong.
I would also add to that list "things I didn't know I wanted", but that is hard to objectively differentiate from manipulation.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 8 pts · 252d
Imagine working in IT and having colleagues that don't use adblockers.
Godort@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 254d
a lot of judgement here from someone that doesn't know what a hamburger is
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 254d
My work PC does not have adblock, and I'm always a little culture shocked whenever I am forced to use Edge for something.
pedz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 254d
Also when someone you know uses Windows 11.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 253d
I have to for work but I make sure to tell everyone it's only because I have to.
Shit, I've done it again.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 253d
You'd rather be using arch š
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
Mint. Because I am a basic bitch.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 253d
Yep, its disgusting, major red flag, but shockingly common.
Apparently my standards are too high.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 254d
Some people don't mind resuming their viewing. Younger generations seem to genuinely not care.
https://youtu.be/Fj8-r30sSn0
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 254d
Needs alt text.
I don't go to sites full of ads, or if I do, I just switch to reader mode and poof better readability without ads.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 252d
I miss policeman. It was the best blocker addon. Fine-grained easy control.
Brave does well.
For watching video, use a media player (e.g. mpv + yt-dlp). No ads (except what the content creator added to the video itself... in which case, tap the cursor keys to skip, no problem).
Maybe those who don't block adverts just don't know. Like an animal born in captivity. Like a fish oblivious to water. We can escape, we can evolve, show them the better life awaiting them. :)
DamnianWayne@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 252d
I should replay P4
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 252d
Isn't this P3?
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
If you look reeeeeeallly closely at the space beside the shirt, then you can see a cum sock.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 254d
I have basic Adblockers just so I donāt have to deal with the clutter, but Iām not a bitch about ads. If a YouTube vid had ads I just hit the skip if I can, or sit through it. If an ad pops up while Iām scrolling through whatever news or media site, I just scroll past or click through and brush it off.
These people who act like theyāre being abused or tortured because they have to look at an ad or watch a few commercials make no sense to me. It reeks of entitlement.
Just because the internet is filled with information doesnāt mean itās free. It costs money to write articles and make videos. If weāre not paying them with cash then weāre paying them with a little time or consideration.
As long as the ads arenāt obnoxiously loud or animated or otherwise irritating, theyāre just part of the experience.
But then I grew up pre-internet, when you had no choice but to sit through 10 minutes worth of commercials to enjoy 20 minutes worth of tv episodes.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 16 pts · 254d
Watching ads is like being a cuck. Just without any sexual gratification.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 254d
At least TV ads could be entertaining back in the day, but modern internet ads are both boring and obnoxious. One minute you're watching Invader Zim the next you're watching Billy advertise a burger press, nostalgia.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 254d
Me too, and it fucking sucked. If there's any way to avoid it, I will.