gohixo9650

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[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

in the 90s there was no technology to have an overlay of an ad following you while you scroll and when you close it a new one appears more aggressively. Or to let you start reading an article and then suddenly appear in your face not allowing you to continue. Yes, there was the worse situation that they would open a whole new window, but browsers started restricting it quite early

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Once I was using a girlfriend's laptop and I told her very casually "I'm adding an adblock" when she replies me "no don't block them, I like them because sometimes I find nice offers in the ads" and I froze. I wasn't expecting that and I was so baffled like "what do you mean you like them, how do you live seeing more ads than what you originally came for" lol

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 2 years ago

or get an open source, free and privacy friendly one from f-droid in case you haven't tied your hands with an iphone

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago (11 children)

sure if you prefer to support the google monopoly

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

firefox for android + ublock origin and/or adguard-dns

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah you're right actually. I always use it combined with a local browser adblock and didn't think of that

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

yeah you're right actually. I always use it combined with a local browser adblock and didn't think of that

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 years ago (8 children)

but this means that she would see the ads but not being able to click? I don't get it. They should had just disappeared, no? Or was she complaining that she wasn't seeing the ads?

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

ok, I think I had missed this crucial difference in the business model lol

[–] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

interesting. thanks for sharing!

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