I think the worst ads are the text to speech ones that say "Download this app today".
Dear god, they read themselves to you now?!? Kill it with fire!!
I want the creator drawn and quartered.
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I set up a pihole and installed revanced on my mom's phone. She was surprised when I mentioned that YouTube has ads once haha.
What? What ads?
Does anyone have recommendations on how to block ads on Android without rooting? I've tried AdAway but it doesn't seem to be terribly effective. I'm pretty tied into Chrome and would prefer not to change browsers but I understand I might have to.
You're pretty much gonna have to switch browsers. There are other options, but they don't work as well as uBlock Origin. The best alternative to that is a VPN that blocks ads, like Proton. But they aren't as good at blocking. They will, however, remove most ads, and from other apps as well.
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Only time I ever see actual ads anymore are when I'm out and about and see billboards, when my parents are watching TV, or when I go to furaffinity on TOR for some NSFW images.
I'm fine with the ads on FA since they're at the top and bottom of the pages and not intrusive at all and aren't really much more than ads for probably shitty games (minus the Brok the Investigator ads) and art commission services the vast majority of the time.
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I often forget they even exist
I want to be there. I browse strictly on mobile I dont have a computer and I haven't seen to be able to get anything to work properly the few times I tried. It's so much worse on mobile cuz I'm so likely to accidentally tap the ad and they usually take up the whole screen and maybe 3 or 4 lines of am article before another ad. Plus one on top and bottom of the browser that is always there, plus a pop-up video auto playing in the corner.
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It is jarring. I am feeling a little bad for actual writers though when I have to turn back from a news site because it doesn't like my adblocker or pihole. I haven't relented. But given the whole writers strike thing and the fact that I don't want AI writing pretty much anything meant to be read by human eyes, I do feel bad.
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Idk I just pay for stuff if I like it so no ads. Like including DVDs or streaming services. Or I use FOSS and everything's good.
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What a great way to put it. Years ago my wife was annoyed when I started blocking ads because it was effecting streaming on some apps. Now if an ad gets through look out!
When we see ads, it is so annoying. Page loads are clunky and games blast you with ads.
I did my annual reimage and it's always jarring having to put everything back on lol.