Why the fuck would anyone uninstall their ad blocker just because one site demands it? Whitelists exist for a reason.
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maquise@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
Just this morning all the posts (here on Lemmy) were about how everyone was uninstalling their adblockers.
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 7 months ago
smokingManhole@lemmy.world 7 months ago
mjhelto@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Right? I’ve used ad blockers as soon as they popped on the Internet scene. I hate advertisements, commercials and any kind of marketing. I don’t watch TV, and when I do or it’s on nearby, I get up and walk away during the commercials. When sponsored stuff interrupts a video I’m watching, I skip forward until the video returns. If I have to use a browser with no ad block, I straight up abandon most sites. It’s untenable!
In general, I treat life and products/services I want like a business doing a Request For Purchase (RFP). If I want something, I’ll look up companies that provide that product or service and rely heavily on the recommendations of friends, family, and community when making a purchase decision. Those who aggressively solicit me will almost never get my money or be considered.
Fuck capitalism.
ijeff@lemdro.id 7 months ago
To install another one that works!
yukichigai@kbin.social 7 months ago
That article was full of such blatantly misleading crap. Headline talks about record number of adblocker uninstalls, but the actual data says it was an uptick in both installs and uninstalls. In other words it was people cycling through different adblockers trying to find one that still worked.
mjhelto@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I actually removed a lot of ad blockers from all my devices once I found that uBO could do it all. That could be what they are seeing from others as well, perhaps!
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 months ago
And that didn't mention ublock origion, the blocker that still works...
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It did at the very very bottom. I almost missed it.
theneverfox@pawb.social 7 months ago
IDK why anyone uses anything else. It has street cred, it improves response times, it is ideologically just about blocking ads
I use tracker blockers and containers too, but every machine that has been in my hands for more than 10 minutes has it installed
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Because they’re still on Chrome based browsers. It’s not really about the ad blocker, it’s about the browser. You’re not going to beat Google at their own game using the tools that they gave you.
RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Stupid Wired article was stupid.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It’s like war propaganda, both sides are eager to claim they’re winning lol
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
People should be uninstalling Chrome instead.
Adblocking still works fine on Firefox. Just update your UBO filters.
Subverb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I literally have un-installed chrome. I had to use it on an office machine today and it felt weird.
TinyPizza@kbin.social 7 months ago
proud of you
lemann@lemmy.one 7 months ago
The default browser at my work is Firefox lol, only our testing team and a few others use Chrome. It’s a pretty welcome change 👍
I find it a little funny when we get Chrome-specific bug reports though
Lamb@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I’m so happy I can freely use Firefox at work. 😅
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Aside from Firefox, are there any decent non-Chromium-based browsers left?
brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Nope
ijeff@lemdro.id 7 months ago
…m.wikipedia.org/…/Comparison_of_browser_engines
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thanks.
For anyone else interested, as of November 2023:
Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox’s engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox.
Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.
Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.
The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple’s engine), and Blink (Google’s engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).
elbarto777@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There are many. They’re just not as popular.