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Reddit be like (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 111 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Same if they say to disable your ad blocker.

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  • [–] 98 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I love when they give you instructions on how to disable it. Lol, fuck you, website.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    or if they try to guilt-trip you into disabling the ad blocker with a frowny face or something.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Every time you block an ad, a puppy gets hit by a truck. Is that really what you want?

    :(

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Technically, I don’t block ads. I block trackers using privacy badger. If they were to just show me ads without trying to track me I’d be fine and they’d get some ad revenue. But they always put trackers in there, I see no ads and they get no money.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just a heads up, privacy badger effectively doesn’t do anything besides take up resources and make you slightly more fingerprintable as compared to simply using ublock. All of its useful behaviors were culled a few years ago, funny enough, due to fingerprinting. Its blocklist is severely out of date.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I was aware that they made that change but I didn’t know it made it worse for tracker blocking. I don’t see ads and I don’t get the external discussions such as discus so it seems to work.

    I’ll check it out.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Trust is broken. Ads have been abused where I have to block by default unless I already trust your website.

    I'm not risking malware for some strangers advertisements.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Yeah, I agree. I never really minded ads as I just mentally ignore them so I didn’t use an ad blocker for a very long time after it was common practice. I also disagreed with the principle of ad blockers as sites need to pay their expenses.

    But then they abused the data that they collected to change people’s political opinions in a way that went way beyond just your standard political ads and that was it for me.

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