Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You
termaxima@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
We really need to teach everyone to use ad blockers. Ads have not existed on “my” internet since the 2000s…
I’ve had some trouble setting up a pie-hole. It’s an imperfect system and something of a constant struggle between advertisers and ad-blockers.
If you’ve escaped every digital ad over the last 25 years, congrats. I’m reasonably tech savy, use adblockers where I can, and haven’t been remotely this fortunate.
I mean something simple as Ublock Origin/Adnauseum with Firefox or an appropriate fork would work well, I’d presume.
Definitely stems the tide, but it’s a long way from “never seen an ad in 25 years”
Ruigaard@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m always horrified if I’m on a browser without a blocker, the web just so much more distracting and intense.
termaxima@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Nowadays I’m even starting to find it annoying on a browser with adblock, but without NoScript ! Quite a bit of nonsense disappears when you take the few seconds to only enable the scripts a page actually needs