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there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel like most of the kind of people who go out of their way to pirate also go out of their way to avoid ads.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  1. Download Firefox (or other preferred gecko browser)
  2. Install uBlock Origin add-on

Really going out of the way to avoid them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

You'd be surprised how many people don't have the motivation/understanding to do even that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean I set up a Pi-Hole along with U-Block Origin, and I have my Jellyfin NAS running all my shows/movies so that I very seldom see any advertisements ever..

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pi hole is definitely great but I'll concede that getting that going probably qualifies as 'going out of the way'. That said, it is worth every penny/second spent configuring.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. I simply have a deep seated hatred of ads of all shapes, sizes, and purposes (=

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Ads are like tribbles, keep slayin away

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Had this bite me once growing up. Forgot to get an ad block on my friends PC and ended up blasting porn ads on the family PC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Never raw dog the net like that...