Ad blocking in Windows 10
Discussion
PurpleMoonlight said:
I heard on the radio Facebook are considering that.
Facebook and adblock are in a nice little game of chase at the moment. http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/11/12439990/faceboo...
Fer said:
dxg said:
if you're got a raspberrypi lying around, I can strongly recommend pihole. It's the "nuke it from orbit" option.
I have this, and very useful it is too.I posted on here asking questions about, but some people, who with hindsight might not be as well informed, warned me against it.
Mojooo said:
A lot of websites I am finding now can detect adblock or ublock and stop you reading content.
As someone who has YouTube advertising accounting for, on average, 5-10% of his monthly income, I can fully understand why. Like it or not, advertising is how a lot of this content is paid for, and AdBlock and the likes really strangle the life out of content creators.Then again, I pay for movie rentals on my Fire TV rather than just torrenting everything, so maybe I'm just one of those rare people with a conscience.
PW said:
I think the number of people who have installed adblock because they object to content creators getting paid is probably very small. It's probably more to do with how bad adverts are and have been for many years.
PH is a prime example - pop ups, pop unders, auto playing sound/video, malicious redirects have happened fairly regularly for YEARS, and every time is met with the same empty assurances that it "shouldn't have happened" and "won't happen again". Then it happens again.
Like it or not, as long as the obnoxiousness, bandwidth wasting and security risks persist people will use adblockers.
The people that rely on adverts as a source of income should be upset that the companies responsible for generating that revenue are doing such a bad job that people would rather block it than "pay" for content by enduring garbage.
I couldn't agree more. It got to a stage where I swapped browser and added an adblocker because PH simply wasn't an option because of long running scriptsPH is a prime example - pop ups, pop unders, auto playing sound/video, malicious redirects have happened fairly regularly for YEARS, and every time is met with the same empty assurances that it "shouldn't have happened" and "won't happen again". Then it happens again.
Like it or not, as long as the obnoxiousness, bandwidth wasting and security risks persist people will use adblockers.
The people that rely on adverts as a source of income should be upset that the companies responsible for generating that revenue are doing such a bad job that people would rather block it than "pay" for content by enduring garbage.
Megaflow said:
Interesting. I considered doing this a while ago, most of my browsing is on mobile devices at home, so a network wide blocker would be useful.
I posted on here asking questions about, but some people, who with hindsight might not be as well informed, warned me against it.
I did this with a Pi 3, very easy to set up, works without issue, and keeps delivering. The only issue is that the sponsored Google links don't open, so Mrs Fer has to scroll through to get to her search results.I posted on here asking questions about, but some people, who with hindsight might not be as well informed, warned me against it.
PW said:
I think the number of people who have installed adblock because they object to content creators getting paid is probably very small. It's probably more to do with how bad adverts are and have been for many years.
PH is a prime example - pop ups, pop unders, auto playing sound/video, malicious redirects have happened fairly regularly for YEARS, and every time is met with the same empty assurances that it "shouldn't have happened" and "won't happen again". Then it happens again.
Like it or not, as long as the obnoxiousness, bandwidth wasting and security risks persist people will use adblockers.
The people that rely on adverts as a source of income should be upset that the companies responsible for generating that revenue are doing such a bad job that people would rather block it than "pay" for content by enduring garbage.
That is true to a point, I've seen a few sites I've trust sell out to adverts obtrusive enough that I've run a scan to check I've no malware generating them because they seem totally out of character with the publication, and generally they've held their hands up and admitted they went too far. It does grate particularly when they do the adverts that border the sites main content, so you click the background and get a pop up.PH is a prime example - pop ups, pop unders, auto playing sound/video, malicious redirects have happened fairly regularly for YEARS, and every time is met with the same empty assurances that it "shouldn't have happened" and "won't happen again". Then it happens again.
Like it or not, as long as the obnoxiousness, bandwidth wasting and security risks persist people will use adblockers.
The people that rely on adverts as a source of income should be upset that the companies responsible for generating that revenue are doing such a bad job that people would rather block it than "pay" for content by enduring garbage.
For me it is a bit hard to swallow because, well, its YouTube pre-roll adverts and if waiting 5 seconds to hit skip is too much then I'd gladly deny them of something I've spent hours on creating for no cost to them.
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