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Mobile ads suck so bad. How did we get here? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by Philharmonic3@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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I honestly think mobile ads in free games and other apps are some of the lowest quality piles of garbage I've ever had the misfortune to see, and they are constant. How did we get to this point? Where they are so horribly unbearable and yet so commonplace?

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[–] Creosm@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The modern day mobile ad slop was the breaking point for me with ads, adblock is required now for viewing any website with ads.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have a pihole.

Every time I go out onto LTE I experience the shittery that the rest of the world lives with every day. It is brutal. I have no idea how people do it.

It's funny, even sync for lemmy I never use it outside because it also has huge shitty ads. But on my network all is nice and clean!

[–] dave@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can also host a VPN server with your pihole so you don't get ads on LTE either.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Yea I've considered that but I'm afraid of opening up anything on my local network to the outside. I'm not sure I'm technical enough to risk accidentally opening something that's a vector for attacks. I'm ok with everything only accessible from 192 I'm not out enough for it to matter too much.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Investigate tailscale, run your phone's internet thru your pihole when you're out and about, or set your phone's dns to dns.adguard-dns.com. No-one should have to live with that crap.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Will check it out, thanks!