I use my phone except for work. If there are good iPhone ad blockers, if use them.
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I would use one, I'm not opposed, but I've just never bothered. I don't use a lot of sites with prominent ads.
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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I turn off my adblocker for YouTube if it's a creator who should be getting revenue from the video. I'm not happy with Google's cut of it though...
I don't use one because I feel that the more people use ad blockers, the more intrusive and annoying the ads will be for people that aren't using one, and less overall content will be available for free. The only ads that I can't stand are video ads, and that's why I have YouTube premium.
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On top of an adblocker, I use Pi-hole/Adguard home for DNS blocking.
For added privacy, I also use my own unbound DNS server, which can be easily setup with Pi-hole, so that I make as few external DNS requests as possible.
Nearly everyone uses at least some level of adblocking. Pretty much every major browser blocks pop-up ads by default, so the people who are too lazy or computer illiterate to do anything other than the default are still going to have some ad blocking.
Internet Explorer 6 added this feature in 2001, so even your grandpa still stubbornly running his end of life Windows XP probably has a popup blocker.
I don’t use an adblocker when I browse in ios because I don’t know how to
I don’t, without the advertising a lot of the content can’t exist and I like the context to exist.
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No, because I want the content that I consume to be financially viable. You either accept the ads, or seek out other sites with other payment models.
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I use my usual addons like privacy badger, Ghostery, ublock and Tampermonkey to get rid of the annoying "disable your adblocker" message on youtube.
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