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I gave up trying to get my wife to use anything that blocks ads, and she won't switch away chrome. When she bakes, she leaves her tablet or phone open, with multiple video ads destroying her battery. Seeing this thing just turns my brain to mush as I don't see any ads. I don't know how she puts up with having ten video ads on one page.
Time to set up a pi hole on your local network and kill it at the source!
And then hear 10,000 times how her web site is broken by the ad blocker, and show her again how to disable it for the 10,000th time. Or is that just my hell?
I can relate. I permanently removed all her devices when I still used it. Now I just use https://ovpn.se/en, it comes with ad blocker built in to the client.
My wife is on board with pretty much all of my shit in this area. That said, do I have exceptions in my pi-hole for a shitty mahjong clone's ad service? You betcha.
Of all the games infested with ads, your wife is subjecting herself to them for a common-as-Hell type of game that you could get a non-malicious version of from F-droid?!
That's just downright stupid.
That must be some janky-ass website if it gets broken by an ad-blocker.
Yep! Every damn time.
That could mostly be you! 😁
I tried that, it seemed to break some sites she used. So she made me remove it. Yet she complains about Facebook and google knowing what she’s browsing 🤦♂️
My condolences on the divorce
😂
Is she one of those people who does it to support creators? Or is it just too much effort for her?
She doesn’t like change…