Current Events > In 10+ years, I never met anyone in real life who used Adblock/Ublock

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SomeGuyUO
01/11/22 9:28:14 PM
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Crazy. Everyone on the internet forums always had it. In college I would tell people about it and they had no clue what I'm talking about.

Not even with computer savvy people I encountered have em.
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SamsungGearS2
01/11/22 9:29:29 PM
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Wtf I've been using adblock forever, and no one on my work team has it on their work devices, and I work in IT.

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wackyteen
01/11/22 9:30:09 PM
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I'd have actually went insane a long time ago without ad blocker.

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The-Apostle
01/11/22 9:32:19 PM
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Same here. I've used it for years. Yet I don't know anyone else other than my brother who used it.

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CommonGrackle
01/11/22 10:08:48 PM
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thieves! thieves all of you!
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OVERGOATED
01/11/22 10:09:37 PM
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My mom uninstalled the adblocker i installed for her because she liked clicking on the ads.

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nfearurspecimn
01/11/22 10:11:15 PM
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I installed it on my mom's PC.

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Eramir
01/11/22 10:12:00 PM
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I stopped using it on some sites because I realize I should be supporting the content I consume I also subscribe and donate more often to support content creators
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Kloe_Rinz
01/11/22 10:12:01 PM
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Isnt it only used by like 10 million people tops? Thats just ublock origin though, but lets say theres another 5 as popular, so 50 million
on a global scale thats a drop in the bucket
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Cheater87
01/11/22 10:14:05 PM
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I use Adguard.

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Alteres
01/11/22 10:15:06 PM
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Honestly I just dont go on sites with annoying adds.

I am also more boring these days and stay away from the less legal side of the internet mostly.

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UndefeatedGOAT
01/11/22 10:15:16 PM
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That shits for boomers tbh

Brave blocks ads without it
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Southernfatman
01/11/22 10:16:12 PM
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It's weird. What's weirder is I've told people about it yet they still won't use it. Not for supporting the creator purposes, but just out of laziness or being so used to ads that they just don't care and see it as normal.

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SomeGuyUO
01/11/22 10:21:39 PM
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UndefeatedGOAT posted...
That shits for boomers tbh

Brave blocks ads without it

Still not as good as Ublock Origin
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Wetterdew
01/11/22 10:23:42 PM
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Southernfatman posted...
It's weird. What's weirder is I've told people about it yet they still won't use it. Not for supporting the creator purposes, but just out of laziness or being so used to ads that they just don't care and see it as normal.
advertisement homeostasis

when you're accustomed to this level of advertisement and haven't even considered how much better your online experience would be without them.
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The Nintendo Master
01/11/22 10:33:06 PM
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Let my 9-year old nephew use my laptop today, which was not an out of the ordinary thing, he wanted to play Roblox, so I fired up a private tab so he could log into his account, he logs in, goes to the game he wants to play, is waiting for it to load, there's a banner ad at the top of the screen and he immediately clicks it out of nowhere.

I rarely use my laptop for browsing the internet, but it turns out uBlock isn't enabled by default in private browsing, so that's what was going on. But I was just like what are the odds I have a setting like that not set on my laptop, and my nephew hauls off and clicks what's probably the first banner ad I've seen in years. Anyway, I don't know I made it clear enough to him but I told him to never click ads like that, turned on the setting, and let him back on my laptop.

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FL81
01/11/22 10:55:15 PM
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UndefeatedGOAT posted...
That shits for boomers tbh

Brave blocks ads without it
Brave uses the same filter lists as uBlock Origin

actually a lot easier to customize filters with uB0

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TheMikh
01/11/22 10:59:43 PM
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my friends seem content with sitting through ads or subscribing to paid premium versions of services without ads

what is this world coming to

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wackyteen
01/12/22 12:02:42 AM
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TheMikh posted...
my friends seem content with sitting through ads or subscribing to paid premium versions of services without ads

what is this world coming to
I mean I'm okay with paying for YouTube Premium, just for the convenience of no ads on mobile and background play

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UndefeatedGOAT
01/12/22 12:31:09 AM
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FL81 posted...

Brave uses the same filter lists as uBlock Origin

actually a lot easier to customize filters with uB0


i guess, i just done like using vanilla chrome, and i dont like firefox anymore
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Njolk
01/12/22 12:32:28 AM
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OVERGOATED posted...
My mom uninstalled the adblocker i installed for her because she liked clicking on the ads.

lol this made me laugh

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indica
01/12/22 12:53:47 AM
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UndefeatedGOAT posted...
i guess, i just done like using vanilla chrome, and i dont like firefox anymore
Why don't you like Firefox?

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Kloe_Rinz
01/12/22 1:02:05 AM
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wackyteen posted...
I mean I'm okay with paying for YouTube Premium, just for the convenience of no ads on mobile and background play
Theres Adblock on mobile. It never worked on android but works fine on iOS
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LordYeezus
01/12/22 1:05:23 AM
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when will it come to android damn it

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FL81
01/12/22 1:05:53 AM
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Just use Firefox on Android and use uBlock with it

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The-Apostle
01/12/22 10:45:02 AM
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Tbh, I think not using any form of adblocker is what killed my dad's phone. I keep telling him to stop using the Facebook app and just log in through a browser with an adblocker but he never listens.

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BLooD WoLf
01/12/22 11:13:04 AM
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FL81 posted...
Just use Firefox on Android and use uBlock with it

been doing this for a couple years now. also got my wife to switch over from regular android chrome a couple weeks ago.

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Irony
01/12/22 11:14:08 AM
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TC only knows boomers

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Ilishe
01/12/22 11:14:28 AM
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OVERGOATED posted...
My mom uninstalled the adblocker i installed for her because she liked clicking on the ads.

My God.

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The-Apostle
01/12/22 11:20:55 AM
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OVERGOATED posted...
My mom uninstalled the adblocker i installed for her because she liked clicking on the ads.
This is a bad thing to do.

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Solar_Crimson
01/12/22 11:24:39 AM
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FL81 posted...
Just use Firefox on Android and use uBlock with it


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Hop103
01/12/22 11:29:14 AM
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I've used those for over a decade.

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SomeGuyUO
01/12/22 12:59:14 PM
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Why don't people in IT use it smh
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supermichael11
01/12/22 1:15:17 PM
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When website advertise fake games or people that plays bad on purpose for mobile phones, they deserve to get their ads blocked.

We don't want to see fake games that doesn't exist, stop showing those lying advert like Heros War an example and failing on purpose.

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SomeGuyUO
01/12/22 10:41:17 PM
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From what I calculated, Ad blocking browser extensions are only used by 1 in 63 people worldwide.
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