Given all my adblockers, getting ads at all is what scares me
Yesterday my ublock failed me and I had to watch a full 5 seconds of ads for 3 times! Fortunately it seems to work after updating filters now
See, that right there is true horror.
Yeah, Idk why but ublock auto-nuked the filters I entered (that nice custom filter from Tumblr), i didn’t notice but I did after the satanic torture by yt (15 secs of ads I won’t get back) I fortunately went on the dashboard and noticed my filters weren’t there, immediately re-pasted them.
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You know these algorithms are designed for predictive advertisement based off your previous activity. What is likely going on is this:
10,000 users who searched these terms also decided to search or want this “thing” next.
“Woah, it’s reading my mind! How did it know I was thinking about that?!”
It’s funny, nobody pays attention when the algorithm guesses wrong, we only notice it when it’s freakishly accurate.
Certain products use algorithms that predict you’re going to stop using it before you’re even aware. This can trigger things to sent you emails, etc with some perk.
And that makes it better?
Understanding what is real is the first step to controlling what controls you
No, but confirmation bias is a real thing.
Absolutely, but understanding that doesn’t make it any less creepy.
You can fight this you know. There are a lot of great YouTube video tutorials by MentalOutlaw that will help you tighten down your security settings and make it more difficult to identify and track you across the internet.
Does this come at a high cost of convenience? Absolutely. Most of my security settings break websites by default since I restrict all 3rd party apps and JavaScript. It takes me a good couple minutes to play around and see what is causing the issue.
If I can’t figure out how read your site without handing over a bunch of access, I move to the 2nd or 3rd site that usually gives me what I want without changing any settings at all.
Bingo. This one gets it.
No, it helps you understand what it actually is so you can think of solutions based on information instead of fear.
Except when it’s YouTube recommendations, then they only pay attention when it’s wrong and not when it’s right.
As if YouTube would ever get it right.
What, you don’t want right wing misinformation shoved down your throat constantly despite reporting it every time you see it?
omg YES. So weird and creepy. And not just ads…Youtube recommendations, fluff news stories, songs you didn’t know existed…
this meme is kinda meta for me too 💀 because I wondered who else experiences this
What’s really gonna bake your noodle later is if you’d have thought about that thing at all if it wasn’t something they were advertising…
when your fbi agent knows you better than yourself
You get ads:
💀💀💀
I genuinely feel bad for the people who actually get ads online these days.
On desktop, Firefox + ublock origin is my goto.
On Mobile, the best I can really do is Youtube revanced and PiHole, but that doesn’t cover everything, and often breaks other functionality.
Why not Firefox + ublock-origin on mobile?
iPhone user 😂
Imagine getting ads in 2023.
uBlock Origin and uMatrix chads rise up
Firefox mobile gang.
Chrome has ads on ads on ads these days, it’s terrible.
Also revanced/piped.video, sponsorblock, spotX … probably more
We looked into it more deeply and found that apparently what happened is users started blocking ads through the chromium browser extension APIs, so we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
Signed: the Google manifest team
Can’t you do all the script blocking from uMatrix in uBlock Origin?
Shit. Add modded Spotify and YouTube to the list. If it can be blocked I’ma do it.
umatrix?
Ad-blocker blocker blocking ad blocker in sites scares me
I believe uBlock Origin has very good adblocker blocker blocking capabilities.
YES!!! I had this happen to me. I never mentioned it to anybody, I just thought it up and next day… BAM! I see an ad for something I just THOUGHT about.
What the fuck???
It’s 9am in morning, it’s too early for this shit!?! Let’s just call it a coincidence. I’m going back to sleep, they can’t get to you in your dreams.
Not yet.
Vice versa. They’re training you to think a certain way. Advertising is basically black magic and very few are immune to it.
Something something adblock
that doesn’t prevent them from spying tho
Very true. I was more just predicting what inevitable gets said with posts like these.
You guys get ads?
mobile phones man
Use a dns blocker (like nextdns) for systemwide ad blocking meaning it blocks mobile ads too. I haven’t had an ad in ages.
Edit: Or use something like adaway if you’re on android.
I tried to use adaway but I can’t do root and I already use a VPN. 😭 Thankfully I use NewPipe x Sponsorblock and ublock origin in Firefox so I’m usually covered.
I’ve got ublock origin in firefox on my phone. Pihole also helps. So I ask again: you guys get ads?
Sometimes things open in-app and use Google to load the page, so even if I select “open in firefox” after, there’s still an ad. Plus ads in apps in general.
Brave browser app. Get it, thank me later.
Or simply firefox
Really excited for desktop extensions on mobile
Can I get it on F-Droid or is it only on Google Play?
Just go for Mull + uBlock Origin.
what about Firefox and Ublock?
That works too, but mull is more private. It’s configurations are what we call “hardened”.
You can get the FFUpdater app from F-Droid, then use that to install Brave to your phone. But at that point, you may as well just use FFUpdater to install the much better alternative, Firefox, which doesn’t indirectly support Chromium engine dominance and doesn’t have that weird crypto crap Brave has.
Edit: Someone else replied to you suggesting Mull, which is also downloadable through the FFUpdater app.
Currently using Firefox and Ublock origin on mobile now that they brought extensions over
ublock origin on firefox mobile has been a thing for years. same for decentraleyes and darkreader. the recent change affects other extensions.
What I thought was that Mobile had it’s own built-in adblocking. I specifically remember being able to add the extension in a way I wasn’t able to a few months ago recently.
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