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Internet Ads Are Now Hacking Your Computer... (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ca
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[–] 32 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

You guys still watch ads? UBlock to the rescue!

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  • [–] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    I’m always amazed at the amount of ads people tolerate. Why do people even watch TV. The programs are only mildly better than the ads.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Every once in a while I'm somewhere with cable and my wife and I like to watch it and laugh at the commercials. The commercials are not supposed to be funny, but boy are they sometimes entertaining, especially when one of us spots evident AI like how the fuck did that make it past so many people

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Imagine someone looking at terrible slop and saying: “You know what, this is good enough to be published”. Does that person really exist somewhere in the chain? Does that person really know what they’re doing? Maybe there are multiple people like that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I've set things up so I never see ads (uBlock Origin, AdGuard Home, etc.) but I watched an NBA game the other day on broadcast TV and immediately saw a Wendy's ad that was entirely AI generated. Blew my mind. It was slick. I'd bet most people that are accustomed to seeing ads wouldn't have even noticed.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    I've been blocking ads since the 90s. I honestly do not understand how people use the Internet without ad blocking. It's completely unusable to me without.

    Though I also turn off my radio volume when ads come on, so maybe I'm just really opposed to ads in general.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    I heard someone say they are ok with accepting all cookies on sites because they actually prefer "targeted ads" because they are more interesting than generic ones for casinoes and medical scams.

    I had no words.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Did ad blocking work much differently from today, back in the 90s? Or was it the same kind of just "block requests from this domain", kind of deal?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I'm afraid to post links because people will complain about ads or that they can't see it. Pipepipe, RSS feeds, ad blockers on dns and for fun a detention in the web browser and I don't see anything. I expected most people on here to have a similar set up.

    I have to go out of my way to even see things, I have Sam sedar, fox news, CNN, etc all subscribed on my RSS feed just so I can see the world outside of what I'm subscribed to. Just so I can see some headlines that give me an idea of what's going on, and then I can decide if I need to look into it more.

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