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Crackhappy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am going to ask a stupid question here, in no stupid questions. I have never used an ad blocker. I’ve been on the internet since before the world wide web was invented. What, exactly, is the purpose of ad blockers?
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 months ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Are you a bot, or a troll? Or just not understand English? Because it’s in the name.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Regrettably I am neither.
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hope this helps!
Ad blocking or ad filtering is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a web browser, an application or a network. This may be done using browser extensions or other methods.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My original question was badly framed. I know what ad blockers are. I just don’t know why people use them.
pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Do you ever visit a website and feel like you have to put on a condom or else you get something nasty?
That’s essentially what an ad blocker is.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 months ago
load ublock origin, then reload any website that had a lot of ads on it. huge difference
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It does what the name suggests: it blocks ads on web pages leaving you with a lot cleaner interface. On some pages the change is purely cosmetic but others like YouTube are completely unusable without one. Why don’t just give it a shot and see by yourself. Look for the uBlock Origin extension for your browser and see how you like it. You can easily toggle it on and off and see how different sites look. It takes literally 30 seconds to install.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thanks, Thorny Insight. I’ve never felt the need to install an ad blocker, but perhaps I should, just to see the internet the way everyone else does these days.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 5 months ago
Definitely do! uBlock Origin is the best one around, and it’s completely free. Even without configuring anything the defaults block 99% of annoying ads.
meekah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t think I’ve ever seen ads with ublock on Firefox. Just the reminders that I am using an ad block and whether I could turn it off, pretty please?
jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thanks for taking the time to help a fellow user!
Great explaination and straight to the point!