“People are taking the piss out of you every day. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”
Banksy
Entropywins@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have hardware dedicated to blocking ads on my home network.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That will only go so far unfortunately. And network level ad blocking won’t protect you from their ads if they’re served from the same servers the content is.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
uBlock will manage :)
lauha@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Not when they are part of the same stream
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ublock is not network level ad blocking.
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What hardware do you use? I have a pihole. Unfortunately it doesn’t block ads on Youtube except in the web browser.
Manalith@midwest.social 8 months ago
For a long time my pihole was able to do it with some regex entries, but Google was pretty persistent about not letting that work, so for Android I just started doing Revanced.
Like you said, the web browser still blocks fine.