I did it on Monkeytype, there is even toggle to disable ads if you don’t have adblocker, but i went for a sellout option.
Not for a well made one, but one I made.
I was testing some shitty PHP code and turned off adnausem just incase it was messing with my shitty PHP code. But I should have known my shitty PHP code was broken and it wasn’t adnausem.
PHP
Well there’s yer problem lmao
Nope. I simply refuse to watch ads.
Either the website or their author will have provided the means to support them directly, or I won’t. And if they try forcing ads on me, I quit using their website.
I’m fine with spending money to support content or services I appreciate. I refuse to waste a second of my life watching ads. That’s the reason why we have not owned a TV since the early 00s: my spouse and I realized we were screwed as, at least here in France, we were supposed to pay for watching TV but still would have to watch ads, more and more of them for that matter. So, gone the TV.
I never disable adblock unless the site isn’t working properly.
This is the way. But I won’t disable ublock when the website tells me to or breaks intentionally.
Sites are rarely involved in picking what ads get displayed. I know there’s controls with your ad provider that let you say it’s a tech site or a cooking site and similar ads will be shown but that’s not enough control to stop somebody malicious. The FBI recommends ad blockers for safety, not because they find them annoying.
No. I did my time for the many years I’ve endured when adblockers weren’t really much of a thing. So, that meant that I’ve put up with ads until 2006 which meant AdBlock Plus first debuted.
Ads are typically trash, they’re in your face, they’re invasive, they’re prone to have malware in them and it’s just marketing pollution that adds no value except to figure out ways, mostly in obnoxious fashion, to get you to spend money.
Never. It’s a malware vector.
Yeah, it is a safety tool.
I could disable it for a site that doesn’t have anything to block, but then leaving it on has no downsides. Like I don’t really need it for lemmy when zero things are blocked, but why turn it off when there is always the possibility that an instance could be hacked?
I do for creators I want to support. But I’ll turn it back on right away if they’re too annoying or sketchy.
I disable on 2 of my local news sites because they need every penny, but not on local news sites owned by major publishers.
Do you ever have sex without protection because the other person looks “clean”?
Once upon a time, long ago, I did it for reddit but they burnt that good will to the ground. Give a corporation an inch and they’ll take as many miles as they can before someone stops them: I block everything now and if it won’t load then I don’t bother with it. If it’s really important I’ll still find a way to view it but never again will I allow ads anywhere I can help it. Advertisements are a very serious threat to security and privacy. Malware and scams are routine in ads, even ads from known corporations that are supposedly safe, like Google.
I disable it for very few sites. This sites provide nice and free niche content but don’t show any ads. I just disable so that the tracking works for sure, to motivate them continue running the site.
Nope. Never.
I was thinking of disabling it for Ecosia.
They are committed to not exploiting my data and using profits for tree planting.Porn mostly.
Is there a way to set up patreon for any ad free website I browse?
Could my browser have some sort of cryptographically signed cookie that would let ad-free websites deduct 1-5 cents from my browsing account?
Website could check for the cookie before loading the ads?
Has this been tried?
