Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites

prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I feel like most of the kind of people who go out of their way to pirate also go out of their way to avoid ads.

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  • sudo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    1. Download Firefox (or other preferred gecko browser)
    2. Install uBlock Origin add-on

    Really going out of the way to avoid them.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’d be surprised how many people don’t have the motivation/understanding to do even that.

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    • Tribble_Slayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean I set up a Pi-Hole along with U-Block Origin, and I have my Jellyfin NAS running all my shows/movies so that I very seldom see any advertisements ever…

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      • sudo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Pi hole is definitely great but I’ll concede that getting that going probably qualifies as ‘going out of the way’. That said, it is worth every penny/second spent configuring.

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  • huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Had this bite me once growing up. Forgot to get an ad block on my friends PC and ended up blasting porn ads on the family PC.

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    • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Never raw dog the net like that…

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