After all, when we go to a restaurant or canteen, we don't accept to be told "you'll get your cheap meal, but first of all ... (and between all the courses) you must drink yesterday's dirty dishwater!"
That would be quite a show-stopper, wouldn't it?
So why do we put up with this when consuming information?
(Yeah I know, the analogy isn't perfect, but only because there's no money in dirty dishwater.!
This is pretty amazing! People are taking my WordPress plugin that lets you warn site visitors if they don't have an ad-blocking browser plugin installed, and making versions of the project for non-WordPress sites.
#AdBlockers will be limited to 30,000 rules … no more
They will no longer be able to update themselves daily, but only when new versions of extensions are published (which Google sometimes takes up to 3 weeks to validate)
To sum up, #AdBlocking extensions will always be late on websites, and in any case will not have enough rules to cover all sites.
Slowing down the extension update process is blatantly security hostile, all because the biggest ad company is throwing a temper tantrum over people daring to try and take back control of what is allowed to run on their own devices #Chrome#AdBlockers#ManifestV3
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
Interested in reducing the need for ad blockers? Make things safer for the public. Users are only trying to protect their privacy.
The solution is to regulate the Ad Networks! Establish limits on the types, quantity, and frequency of the data they can collect. Reduce AND limit the number of ad trackers a website can allow.
@awoodsnet "only" is a big word. Most regular people I know use ad blockers because they don't like the distraction and not for privacy reasons. I use Disconnect myself.
@mikebabcock a big word? but it’s only 4 itty bitty letters 😛 I get your point.
I may be projecting a little. The people i interact with, are concerned primarily about the privacy aspect. Distraction isn’t usually a word that comes up.
I invoke #fediverse omniscience: #Youtube keeps harassing me telling to switch off #adblockers but I do NOT use them. I just use #Firefox :firefox:
Does anyone know how to tell Youtube that?
Ok, ok, I should go other websites. This is on my todo list...
@paoloredaelli@morrolinux@linux@firefox@mozilla potrerbbe essere varie cose a bloccarti, da privacy badger a altre estensioni.
Non é ancora chiaro come Youtube faccia, si sa solo che in modalitá anonima funziona senza problemi e io faccio cosí per il momento
@cliffwade see, this is why I follow you 😁 you make things make sense to me lol. I def was very confused! So I appreciate you. My mind is at ease now lol. I been clicking and clicking for days now on different articles about this… I guess they got me🤷🏼♂️ ugh. But seriously thank you Cliff.
@Tekk I also think that Chrome would kill itself if it decided to block adblockers. That's just something that's not going to happen due to how the internet works today and these sites don't think about things before the post things like this. They are all about the clicks/views and they will provide you with any false information to get you to be a view. It's the sad reality of blogging and reporting in today's world.
Ad blockers aren't just a convenience, they're a necessary first line of defense nowadays -- due to the prevalence of malvertising & various scripting attacks via social media posts. ⚔️
I've already posted about this before on Mastodon, but I just had the realization that I really don't use YouTube very much anymore ever since the crackdown on adblockers started.
It's not a very enjoyable experience when there's a minimum of four or five ads per video so I don't go on there very much anymore.
> Yes it's TiVo for Youtube. And this...THIS...is the real use case for desktop AI: Detecting ads and automatically skipping them. Funny how the AI barons never mention how AI can empower normies against them.