Adnaseum is a fork of unlock that fakes viewing ads. The thing is its banned from chromes app store because google is at its core an advertising company.
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lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 months agoSooner or later, ad blockers should just simulate the ad being played (in the background) with the real content going in the foreground to act as if the ad was watched.
I wish adblockers did this, open the ad in a little silenced sandbox window. I don’t see the ad, creator gets their pay
gravitywell@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Hmm, I only use chrome for my YT chan control, not watching. Watching ANYTHING is done on FF+UBO, but if adnaseum is on FF I may switch. Poor google has YET to show an ad I would be interested in, hell the tv in the 80s showed me more of interest than ads today. Thanks for the suggestion,will check it out!
gravitywell@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They do have a ff version
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I know what I am checking out tonight
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
even the advertisers dont lose out because you wouldnt have paid attention to the ad too. they might even win a little because now one doesnt have to get annoyed by the ad and go out of your way to not buy the thing.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Exactly, I don’t overly mind the “paid advertisements” the creators do, the guys I watch that do this are extremely funny in how they do it so if I don’t manually skip I get a good laugh, like the “Adstronaut”