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Who doesn't use an adblocker and why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Wondering how much of the Lemmy user base wouldn't use an adblocker. If you do use one what other blocking do you use to circumvent data collection, YouTube and reddit front ends and things alike?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't use an adblocker. 90% of the sites I visit don't abuse ads. When I was younger I used to go to sketchy sites to watch content for free, but now I'm in a position where I can pay for the content so I do. The last time I pirated something was an anime because no streaming service offered it, I had to buy blu rays.

Also, I like targeted ads. Most of the time you can ignore them, but every once in a while they show you something interesting that you do actually want. I've picked up a few board games that way. I didn't buy it through the ad, but it did cause me to start researching it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Laziness.

Plus, if it’s too many ads and too much tracking, maybe it’s my using the thing that’s the problem.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I don't use any ad blocker, and I don't care.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I didn’t until recently. I wanted to give companies I valued credit, in some way. But, ads are completely out of control and it broke me so I started using ublock a few months ago. It’s so much better and I’m not looking back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don’t because I work in SEO and I need to see how some things just work to troubleshoot or find hidden gems from competitors.

However, on my home computers I absolutely do!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I don't use ad blockers on YouTube because the creators that I watch on YouTube are people who I actually care about. I watch content on YouTube from real people who I want to be able to profit off of me watching their video. Ad blockers are effectively piracy, your taking the content without the agreed upon price, in this case, the price of the content is the ads.

And I don't make that comparison to convince anyone that they shouldn't use an ad blocker, I just think the decision of where to use ad blockers should be made with the understanding that you are pirating any content that you consume while using an ad blocker. Are you willing to pirate something from some random mega corporation? I am. Are willing to pirate content from this niche 3D printing YouTube content creator that you enjoy? I'm not.

As a default, I do use an ad blocker, but I will disable the ad blocker for any website that I can trust enough to not have malicious ads, especially websites that i want to financially support. Because for me all it means is sacrificing a little bit of bandwidth to load the ad that I'm just going to ignore anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I have been using adguard dns on my phone for years. For the past one year or so also using adblockers on browser (Firefox). Used to watch youtube with ads. Got fed up moved to watching youtube in browser with adblocker, then finally moved to newpipe sponsor block when youtube started adblocker shenanigans. For pc I use cloud flare dns, regular adblockers (Firefox) and keep privacy and security settings on strict.

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