Comment on Sponsored listings are a ripoff…for sellers
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Sponsored product ads always gave me the message: “Our product isn’t good enough on its own merits, so the only way it’ll sell is if we pay to signal boost it.” It was pretty much an auto-skip for me.
malibu43@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If the exact product I’m looking for comes up as a sponsored listing, I will scroll further down to find the non-sponsered listing just because I hate sponsored ads so much. Not sure if this makes a difference though.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
While I already did that out of spite, my AdGuard home setup won’t even let me click on the sponsored links, they literally don’t work.
bamboo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I have this issue with dns-based adblockers and it caused enough annoyance that I stopped using one frequently. Like, sometimes I click the sponsored one intentionally, and I just want it to work. I wish the sponsored listing didn’t exist, but if it’s the exact thing I wanted I’m not gonna scroll down to re-find the unsponsored listing.
uBlock origin for handles this super well. It’ll just be like “hey this site is in your lists, do you wanna load it this one time anyways, since it’s the actual page you are navigating to?”. Safari’s content blocking allows you to temporarily disable it which is more convenient than reconfiguring dns but nowhere near as good as uBO.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Yeah, sadly that’s just plum impossible with dns based blocking. My wife hates it, but for most of the times she wants it to work on her phone, she knows she can just go on 5G. On PC the sponsored stuff is all cut out automatically.