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 3 months 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 3 months ago
prole@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Never raw dog the net like that…
sudo@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Really going out of the way to avoid them.
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’d be surprised how many people don’t have the motivation/understanding to do even that.
Tribble_Slayer@lemmy.world 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
Absolutely. I simply have a deep seated hatred of ads of all shapes, sizes, and purposes (=