• TurtleOnASkateboard@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    People who complain about ads on the internet are such a weird concept.

    Why experience ads if you don’t want to?

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      2 hours ago

      I wish using freetube kept Ernie calm, but it just doesn’t work half the time. Invidious has the same issue. Which is significantly more annoying than just using YT, which Ernie has uBlock Origin for.

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        2 hours ago

        I do update freetube about 1 time a week these days (which is approaching the annoyance level of ads).

        I used to have a lot more issues with it when I didn’t update so frequently - or maybe that was just a different stage in the arms race; I’m sure the reliability will vary, and eventually the developer of freetube will give up.

        I mean, I wont be throwing out the bat or anything crazy like that.

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      1 hour ago

      How well does it work? On my iPad, Safari Adguard can only black out ad content. (Screen is black during ad, and it displays how many seconds of ad is left)

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        17 minutes ago

        Maybe try out Orion Browser. It has built-in ad-blocking and reliably gets rid of YouTube ads.

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          3 minutes ago

          Too add to this, it also supports Firefox extensions, so you can use ublock origin as well as sponsor block for a better experience.

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      3 hours ago

      uBlock Origin, not uBlock. They’re different - uBlock Origin forked from the original uBlock.

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    5 hours ago

    So far, every comment bar one has mentioned ad blockers.

    You lot are as original and creative as the numpties making comments about the size of the pilot’s balls on aviation videos.

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      3 hours ago

      This is a post about unnecessary rage that absolutely noone has to deal with because everyone should use ad blockers. OP may or may not know, but the post suggests the later. I dont see how it is ‘unoriginal’ to comment about ad blockersin that case…

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        1 hour ago

        So far, every comment bar one has mentioned ad blockers.

        The fact that almost everyone is saying the same thing is pretty much the definition of unoriginal.

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          It just shows what the focus lies on. A post full of comments recommending adblockers has far more impact than a single comment making the post seem dead.

          Youre technically right that it is unoriginal, but I dont see how originality would matter at all in this case.

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      4 hours ago

      The one that worked in a pun was alright. This is the fediverse crowd though, this is very on-brand.

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        4 hours ago

        Oh, this is exactly what I expected. Perhaps not 100% ad blockers, but I was expecting most of them to be like that.