Lots of smart people in the world do not use ad blockers. How do you explain this?
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Masochism
Some smart people have told me they like ads. I just don't get it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds this totally bizarre. I think it might simply be ignorance.
Running Brave Browser
Smart people curl a lot to apiโs via localhost:9050
I hate ads, and don't currently employ any blockers. Oh no, I'm retarded ๐ช๐ฑ
Winter is coming, wear your comfy socks5
Holy shit get on it. Adblock makes everything better.
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Researching now for iPhone YouTube. That's really the only source of my issues. Seems there may be apps, but historically, though I haven't tried very hard, they are more trouble than they're worth and flaky
If I didn't have ads removed on YouTube I wouldn't use it ๐
Regular web too. Sometimes removing ads gets rid of half the page content. It's kind blowing.
Being intelligent does not necessarily make you an independent thinker, or even a thinker at all. It does not necessarily cure laziness or the herd mentality. There are a lot of high-IQ people who believe in crazy religions, who jab themselves every chance they get, and who think that the Jewish media and academic establishments are founts of truth.
Typical awareness or attention problem.
People - even smart ones - are not aware of every single thing nor have the time to get-to-caring about even just the important things.
Attention is the scarcest resource.
TL;DR: Unknown unknowns
They are compliant
And...uninstalling what I was told would work by initial search results... look at this bs
Ads can be funny sometimes ๐
That's going to be the case with any of them probably. They are viewing the entire web page source and modifying it before you view to remove ads. This is why it's a good idea to get a trusted & open source one. It looks like that one is fwiw.
On my phone the VPN I use does all the ad blocking.
Oh, I see. Guess this goes back to the assumption of being smart... thanks! I trust your judgement and will give it a try
If you use a VPN it probably has it built in. On mine it's labeled as tracking protection, but it blocks ads too, at the DNS level.
Depending on what you browse and how you try to block, running ad blockers can be a pretty headache-y tradeoff.
What's the opinion of browsers like brave with built in adblock. I just turn off all the crapto stuff and the tracking stuff.
โค๏ธ Love Brave ๐ฆ
Nord. Doesn't do crap for YouTube (the app anyway, and there are advantages to using the app, signed in no less...god I hate YouTube) as far as I can tell.
This new one has upgrades available for payment, and mentions better ad blocking for YouTube, but species in browser... something tells me doing it to the app isn't easy. It does seem I have less middle ads, but still get one banner to start.
Anyway, will research further
Because you want to see the broken state of the web ... And wish AI to destroy around 99 percent of all click bait websites out there ..
#w3m is the best as blocker .. no java script please
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How does AI do that?
I did not learn about the Brave browser until about a year ago, which is kind of embarrassing. Big tech doesn't advertise privacy preserving tools, and they actually do a great job hiding them in my opinion.
Also, I'd like to complain about website cookies for a minute. Cookie Accept/Reject windows/prompts are deceptive. WTF is a necessary cookie anyway? Those are how I justify my 2nd or 3rd chocolate chip cookie to my wife.
The answer should always be by default to REJECT ALL COOKIES. There should be less fine print for cookies... like I'm accepting the Terms & Conditions drafted by a bitch-ass lawyer for a Big Tech app's consent to probe my butthole (aka share my data).
I've been using ad blockers for 5 years or longer, from my experience most people are computer illiterate and don't understand af blockers or computers, that's why
They might be afraid the be caught using ad blockers - doing something illegal. They might be afraid to get in trouble with the state.
"Because it is our duty as a citizen to consume ads, isn't it?"
I donโt mind well targeted ads for businesses that I want to support.
If a siteโs ads are onerous or low quality, Iโm unlikely to return.
Thereโs the occasional exception where I use archive.is
Maybe Iโm dumb!
they're very generous in subsidizing our platform usage ๐
AI is going to curtain 99 percent of click bait web sites .. cuz no one is ever going to visit those pages .. only super quality content shall survive .. that too because AI do want to have some human compete .. to make it appear a smooth churn ..
I self-host adguard home. Life's good. ๐
I think that it does not matter if they're smart. A of of these people also went along with everything they were told to do during covid, definitely took the covid shot and didn't bother to see what's in there.
I think they're using Pi-hole or something similar perhaps.
I've heard people say it's their form of patronage! I don't buy it F that noise
IT guy I know said hes happy google read his email and loves onedrive. Another unknown myatery
"It's easier to train a smart dog than a dumb one" -Michael Malice
A lot of smart people with no distrust of authority will let their enemies hijack their brain power and justify their positions for them.
In this case, they will be too lazy to bother installing an extension in 30s and rationalize that laziness with random arguments when pressed.
i learned to alter my state of consciousness bc an ad
There's no such thing in Lynx.
When I go to the grocery store, I pay for my groceries.
When I go to the grocery store, I pay for my groceries.
Most of the time it's just pure laziness
Proudly having nothing to hide.
That's when you know that something is definitely off.
It is your duty... to consume..
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When Nord runs out try mullvad or iVPN. They will have the DNS ad blocking for no extra fees. I always avoided Nord, anything advertised by YouTube people is a red flag for me ๐ฉ๐
They got well paid jobs at g00gle selling adsโฆ
Yeah, I was gonna feign opsec concerns and not reveal that specific detail. Cuz I know it's sad, and have reasoned same. Just that I set it up so long ago and always auto-renew before I get a chance to change it.
I shall succeed next go around.
Both mullvad and iVPN let you pay with lightning too, no KYC or identification of any kind needed.
Obscura too I gather. Though unclear how it's not strictly better than mullvad if it's supposedly mullvad plus another layer of security, but didn't wanna drag this into the weeds and wear out my tech support welcome
I'm not sure about Obscura, I've never considered it due to limited OS support. If I'm recommending something and it isn't available for 90% of the people it's kind of useless.
Lots of smart people in the world do use Gmail. How do you explain this?
They are retarded.
In my experience, they donโt care. Itโs not worth it to them
Bizarre to me
In their defense, ad blocker sometimes making websites unusable.
Adguard home running on a $5/month linode server
I don't use services that require ads for their revenue stream
Its very odd isnt it?
There is no "smart people".
The more โtoolsโ you install on your devices the more DOORS ๐ช to install for criminals to use!!
1) They donโt know that you can actually do it, or
2) โAhโฆ I wanted to install the blockerโฆ but not now, next timeโ
define being smart
Certainly not you.