“disable adblock” popup = close tab
Use adblock to disable the anti adblock popup
They say: “Disable adblocking to visit our site”
I hear: “DO NO visit our site”
If you’ve allowed enough trash from a website to run on your browser that they are then able to run checks to determine whether you are blocking ads, then you have been far too lenient with your blocker settings.
I have nothing against ads in principle. Anyone who offers a service such as a useful website should of course be rewarded for it.
What I am against is intrusiveness and tracking. If advertising were just simple locally served banners in the sidebars of the website without any tracking, as it used to be, I would have no problem with it.
In the same way that a year ago I watched YouTube with ads. I’m not watching with ads if it’s even close to the same amount of ad as video
I literally subbed to a podcast using the RSS, and they feed ads through like most podcasts do these days. It started with two ads, ok fine that’s not too bad. It plays the podcast for 8:50ish, and then drops, not “another,” but four ads. It very well may have been more than four too, but during the fourth (sixth total) I stopped the podcast and unsubbed. Not only were there all those ads, but part of the actual eight whole minutes the hosts talked was them plugging their patreon.
None of this was hyperbole, and I remember it well as it happened yesterday.
There’s a few youtubers I’ve either stopped watching, or very rarely watch, because of the amount of plugging they do. I get that they have bills to pay, but some of them are ridiculous.
Exactly. To let advertisers intrude on your brain for what you get in exchange is usually an unfair bargain. People really undervalue their attention and time.
I have crippling ADHD and I am constantly amazed at how little people value their attention. Just baffled watching folks melt their brains on things like TikTok.
It’s like watching a teenager buying drugs. Just… you don’t know what consequences this could bring you.
It’s usually other companies wanting you to buy their shit, not the site that the ads are shown on. That site “makes its living” by selling ad-space to these other companies.
I dislike ads just as much as the next person but I feel like this representation is disingenuine.
