Ancestors

Written by Blizzard@lemmy.zip on 2024-10-04 at 06:09

Mozilla doubling down on ads in Firefox

https://lemmy.zip/post/23894698

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from Blizzard@lemmy.zip

Written by refalo@programming.dev on 2024-10-04 at 14:37

69% of the world population doesn’t use ad blockers. Google made their billions from people clicking on ads.

Not only are we technical folks, only 5% of the population, not their target audience, it seems most people don’t care enough about ads to ever try to stop them… at all.

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from refalo@programming.dev

Toot

Written by WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world on 2024-10-04 at 15:07

That’s really nuts to me when I run into it in the wild. It’s so easy and such a qol upgrade. I know a guy who self hosts a bunch of services, programming job, but does not use any ad block at all. He’s on the computer all day. Just looking at ads.

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world

Descendants

Written by refalo@programming.dev on 2024-10-04 at 15:18

such a qol upgrade

I don’t think you’re wrong, but I do think that if everyone thought that, they would be doing it already.

I have routinely tried to get friends and family to use ad-blockers and they simply don’t care enough to even attempt to download one.

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from refalo@programming.dev

Written by psud@aussie.zone on 2024-10-05 at 02:28

I occasionally accidentally open the fandom page for a game on Chrome with no ad block (which I keep around for Google apps) and it’s unusable. Go there on Firefox with ublock origin and it’s fine

And there’s worse sites than that

Download sites for things like Minecraft mods have several competing “download” buttons without ad block

It’s nuts people might accept these, let alone want them

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from psud@aussie.zone