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| ▲ | r0m4n0 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Some reasons I don't use them anymore (in no specific order) 1. I have had them subtly mess with websites I am working on and I probably wasted multiple hours troubleshooting an issue that wasn't an issue 2. I have had them break a web form when I was trying to purchase something 3. I have purchased some things I like from ads and wouldn't have discovered otherwise 4. I don't frequent websites that overuse them or I can't work around them 5. I'm on a work laptop sometimes and I'm not allowed to use them for corp security reasons 6. I'm not sure I trust the ad blockers themselves, their developers, or their own app security 7. It's another process that can slow down viewing a webpage |
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| ▲ | spiderice 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | > 7. It's another process that can slow down viewing a webpage I guess.. just like how wearing a seatbelt could end up killing you. Doesn't mean the exact opposite isn't a million times more likely. | |
| ▲ | applfanboysbgon 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > 1. I have had them subtly mess with websites I am working on and I probably wasted multiple hours troubleshooting an issue that wasn't an issue If your website is going to be used by people with an adblocker, discovering that an adblocker unintentionally breaks your website is a feature of using one, not a bug. | | |
| ▲ | runako 2 days ago | parent [-] | | That is true, but does not help a person who is not building a given website. I have had financial websites impacted by adblockers, which is why I stopped using them. (I do not work on all of the teams building the financial websites I use.) | | |
| ▲ | applfanboysbgon 2 days ago | parent [-] | | 3 clicks to disable an adblocker on a financial website seems like a trivial price to pay for mental wellbeing and tens of hours of your life not watching video ads, but you do you. | | |
| ▲ | runako 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's not the clicks, it's the cognitive load of discovering & remembering which sites break due to an adblocker. (This set of sites changes as the sites themselves evolve.) The main point is you were writing advice to someone as if they were building the website, when most of us are not generally building the sites we use. | | |
| ▲ | applfanboysbgon 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | > you were writing advice to someone as if they were building the website Yes, because I was responding to a quote of them talking about building websites. |
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| ▲ | juliie 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ad blockers often prevent ads from loading, so overall I'd be surprised if they really ended up slowing down browsing |
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| ▲ | hectdev 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Or AdGuard on a Raspberry Pi paired with Tailscale and never see ads on any machines you own again even on cellular. |
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| ▲ | brewtide 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I have these both installed as 'extensions' on my homeassistant.vm and it works wonderfully. Any device that is on my local network, ads blocked. If I want to access my home network and/or block ads when mobile, tailscale gets connected, ads blocked. highest of recommendation, I agree. |
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| ▲ | bcorigliano 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was on mobile, there might be mobile ad-blockers for google chrome I dont know about, but I do not use them. On my pc of course I use adblockers, I'd have gone crazy by now if I didn't!! I could download some browser with adblocking built-in from the appstore but then I wouldn't have access to all my bookmarks and everything from chrome. |
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| ▲ | deejatsplit 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| For myself, much as I hate the advertisements, I feel like if the creator of those websites are asking for revenue and I’m blocking that, then I’m being a thief of sorts. Or I don’t visit the website. |
