Whenever I turn my VPN off to check my bank account and forget to turn it back on.
You can probably set private dns in your router or in your phone settings
I use nextdns with any VPN. So when I turnoff VPN, nextdns still stays active and blocks ads. Try it, hope it works.
Thank you finally got around to setting it up on my phone.
Today. The entire city is filled with billboards and posters.
I really wish billboards were illegal
I moved from somewhere with billboards all over the place to somewhere signs over 6 feet tall are illegal
It’s breathtakingly nicer
Time for AR where you can replace all those puplic ads with, umm, nsfw art, for example.
They can be a bit too much, but thanks to a billboard I found out that one of my favorite bands (Morcheeba) are playing in my city.
In some cities they are, and it’s a beautiful thing. An example is Canberra, Australia.
There are godamne billbords there especialy past the airport and on bus stops etc
It’s literally what Times Square in Manhattan is known for.
I live near Seattle Washington and there are very few here. Pretty much only on Indian Reservations. But last summer I was on a road trip that took me through Salt Lake City Utah and there were SO MANY BILLBOARDS along the interstate there. I can’t believe the people put up with it.
Wow I did not notice that this was the case. Gotta appreciate this a bit the next time I visit.
Yea I meant on your personal device like phones , PC etc
No idea then. I use adblock on all of my devices, but sometimes things slip through. And I sometimes click on one of those SEO fake “articles” that are really just ads when I’m searching for something.
I’ve been trying to reach you about your car insurance.
This post is an ad.
Plot twist: everything and every1 is an ad
Your mom is an ad
…for condoms
Got 'em!
Every single time I log in and windows wants to upgrade from windows 10 to windows 11. Every single time I have to use edge at work. I’ve got a pihole and DNS ad blocking and so on. I don’t generally see ads on my phone or personal computer. The switch shows me new upcoming games etc. So does the PS5. Plus I get flyers in the mail and see billboards etc.
Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not on my personal devices. No, sir-ee!
Depends on what you mean by “seeing an ad.” An intrusive video ad on YouTube or another video site, or a bunch of annoying pop-ups? Nope, haven’t seen one in years, either. Non-intrusive banner ads on sites I’ve specifically whitelisted in order to help them financially because I like their content and services? Yeah, seen those, but I don’t mind them, and I never whitelist sites where the ads are intrusive.
Laptop/desktop, almost never
Phone, getting better, but don’t quite have it sorted, especially since I’m constantly playing browser bingo and situations like links from Lemmy frequently get me watching cancerous websites because I’ve got the wrong browser that worked last week but not today set as default.
I know I’m not supposed to use it because something something the owner is a terrible person, but Brave has been the most effective YouTube browser since vanced died and I’m not savvy enough to get revanced.
On the revanced topic, if you search something like revanced github it should show up as the first link, you need the revanced patcher.
If you actually meant that you didn’t have a clue how to use it, this is how:
- get the latest patcher from github
- find the corresponding YouTube version (believe it’s the same as the patcher version, I’m probably wrong though)
- install the YouTube version you found
- run patcher, go to the patcher tab and select YouTube.
- patch
- and you should be done
It’s a bit bothersome compared with vanced but doable.
Five minutes ago, here on Lemmy.
WHATS THE BEST ______ You found on ____?
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Stuff I advertise to people are mostly free to use 🤔
You know there are actually some people that like the services that they pay for and want to let others know about it’s utility, right? Not everyone is a paid shill.
This is quite the stealth ad. It seemed like a genuine post at first.
Yea…weird. I’ve seen post about kaji paid search engine. I wonder how many people fall for this ?
I guess i am from an ad agency as well. Damn, i did not even know i get paid for it.
A few are certainly real. The point of the bots is to affect the overall sentiment of posts and influence people into organically participating and promoting their products.
I applaud you setting up a pi-hole…
But please bro, you’ve probably seen hundreds of ads this month if not more. Not everything is listed on the pi hole ad lists.
And not every ad classifies itself as an “ad”.
I never said I am using pi-hole. I use nextdns on my router and all open source adblocking apps on my devices. Windows and android are fully debloated.
I was wrong about the pi hole. The other point stands.
Ahh so you’re oblivious and don’t realize you’re watching ads. Not sure if that’s a good thing.
I run ad blockers on everything, at a software and network level and still see ads from time to time. Let alone my friend posting on social media how great a product is they’re sponsored to promote which is an ad.
You can block a majority of them but it’s impossible to block them all, and you’re delirious if you think you have unless you severely restrict your interactions with Internet-connected services or have spent days tinkering/blocking out most content.
You sure? What about your mailbox that probably contains promotional emails from your bank or your ISPs?
Junk mail should be illegal. Such a waste of resources and it’s absolutely unsolicited harassment. Imagine if those companies faced the same sort of consequences you’d personally get if you kept mailing someone shit constantly.
Junk e-mail, you mean? I don’t really mind them, and automatically straight up to the Trash. I have filters to do this.
I rarely receive a physical mail on my mailbox, except my electricity and water bills every month.
I mean physical mail. 98% of the mail we receive is junk and ads and there’s nothing we can do about it. Spam email goes straight to the spam folder automatically, it’s a non-issue.
When I went to see a movie and because I’ve not done that in a while I forget that you don’t actually have to turn up at the time that is on the ticket. You turn up about 20 minutes later so you don’t have to look at car ads.
I see ads on my phone every day because I don’t know how to block ads on the YouTube app and I still want their algorithm recommendations so I don’t use the other apps that pull from YouTube.
I’m using Brave if I want to watch ad-free youtube videos on my phone. You can also install an ad-blocker on mobile Safari to achieve the same result.
On android Revanced is best option, or stream via website on a browser with adblock.
If you don’t care about the algorithm the NewPipe or LibreTube are great.
Revanced
Every day at the subway station. Huge TV is playing ads.
I look up my windows, and see ads on buildings, also again huge TVs playing ads.
In my elevator there is an announcement for the building Christmas party, that’s an ad, it’s relevant to my immediate interests but it’s still an advertisement.
