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Reddit be like (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] nogooduser 112 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Same if they say to disable your ad blocker.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I love when they give you instructions on how to disable it. Lol, fuck you, website.

[–] germtm_ 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

or if they try to guilt-trip you into disabling the ad blocker with a frowny face or something.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Every time you block an ad, a puppy gets hit by a truck. Is that really what you want?

[–] nogooduser 36 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Technically, I don’t block ads. I block trackers using privacy badger. If they were to just show me ads without trying to track me I’d be fine and they’d get some ad revenue. But they always put trackers in there, I see no ads and they get no money.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Ad creators hate this one weird trick!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just a heads up, privacy badger effectively doesn’t do anything besides take up resources and make you slightly more fingerprintable as compared to simply using ublock. All of its useful behaviors were culled a few years ago, funny enough, due to fingerprinting. Its blocklist is severely out of date.

[–] nogooduser 3 points 11 months ago

I was aware that they made that change but I didn’t know it made it worse for tracker blocking. I don’t see ads and I don’t get the external discussions such as discus so it seems to work.

I’ll check it out.

[–] psycho_driver 15 points 11 months ago

Is that really what you want?

If that is really what you want, can we interest you in our special premium membership with curated run-over-puppies content?

[–] workinkindofhard 1 points 11 months ago

Every time you block an ad, a puppy gets hit by a truck. Is that really what you want?

I love puppies but I hate ads, sorry rover

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

And the instructions are always wrong... I'm not using AdBlock Plus, and they forget to include how to disable the PiHole 😂

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Trust is broken. Ads have been abused where I have to block by default unless I already trust your website.

I'm not risking malware for some strangers advertisements.

[–] nogooduser 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, I agree. I never really minded ads as I just mentally ignore them so I didn’t use an ad blocker for a very long time after it was common practice. I also disagreed with the principle of ad blockers as sites need to pay their expenses.

But then they abused the data that they collected to change people’s political opinions in a way that went way beyond just your standard political ads and that was it for me.

[–] rtxn 18 points 11 months ago

That's when bab-defuser.js and the element zapper get to shine.