Technology

Theres people who dont use ad blocker? Do they also not use the internet?

That's because ads fucking suck

Don't a majority of them also use Chrome? Because they're going to find that their adblockers are less and less effective.

and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters

Leopards, face etc

I remember the good ol days when the ads would lag up the loading of the page

Now they all load first and cover the entire content of the page because screw usability

Looking at you, every news outlet site ever

I doubt these numbers. Almost nobody I know uses one on mobile

yeah, the internet without an ad blocker seems mostly unusable.

I really doubt the numbers. It's so common to see people complain about ads online, even in places like here where you'd expect most people to use adblockers.

Even if nobody used ads, ads just don't work anymore. Kids can't even percieve them anymore, old people who click on everything are a shrinking market segment, and most people in the middle seek to learn about market offerings from influencers they've chosen to trust.

ads are the worst. block them all! Would be great if an advertising company did not have the most popular browser.

People themselves have turned into ads since ads themselves don't do their job.

Look at influencers.

Instagram used to be fun for someone to share their journey, now it's ad...influencer...double ad...Triple influencer...Another ad...a real person sharing their journey...55 more influencer ads mixed with 29 actual ads.

Oh and the occasional OF girl who managed to flash some puss without it getting taken down.

I love when i bought something...(i assume) google thinks it's a great idea to advertise that exact combination of products from the exact webshop on the next website i visit.

How much did tiktok ruin google's brain to make them think that is going to be effective marketing?

Mankind truly is on the way down.

Asked how likely big companies would be to abuse their data, Americans were most wary of TikTok (59 percent), followed by: Meta (56 percent), X/Twitter (49 percent), OpenAI (48 percent), Google (44 percent), Apple (41 percent), Amazon (40 percent), Microsoft (38 percent), Comscore (32 percent), and Adobe (31 percent).

I'm surprised people trust Microsoft and Amazon more than Apple; Amazon needs all the data they can get on you to build "better" profiles on what to sell you, ties your Alexa requests to feed advertising (you can opt out) and Microsoft, especially with Edge (post advertising and services team takeover) has been trying to send everything to Microsoft to feed both ads and their AI. FFS, even Outlook warns you now that they'll share your data with >800 "partners".

Apple is no saint, far from it, but people trust a conglomerate over it?

I'm still surprised so many people don't use them.

Ublock: Origin plugin on each browser, and/or a proper piHole style DNS blocker. Anything else is probably capturing your data to sell.