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.
Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 month agoI 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.
huquad@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
prole@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Never raw dog the net like that…
sudo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Really going out of the way to avoid them.
samus12345@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’d be surprised how many people don’t have the motivation/understanding to do even that.
Tribble_Slayer@lemmy.world 1 month 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…
sudo@lemmy.today 1 month 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.
Tribble_Slayer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Absolutely. I simply have a deep seated hatred of ads of all shapes, sizes, and purposes (=