Technically, I don’t block ads. I block trackers using privacy badger. If they were to just show me ads without trying to track me I’d be fine and they’d get some ad revenue. But they always put trackers in there, I see no ads and they get no money.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

Ad creators hate this one weird trick!

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a heads up, privacy badger effectively doesn’t do anything besides take up resources and make you slightly more fingerprintable as compared to simply using ublock. All of its useful behaviors were culled a few years ago, funny enough, due to fingerprinting. Its blocklist is severely out of date.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was aware that they made that change but I didn’t know it made it worse for tracker blocking. I don’t see ads and I don’t get the external discussions such as discus so it seems to work.

I’ll check it out.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Is that really what you want?

If that is really what you want, can we interest you in our special premium membership with curated run-over-puppies content?

[–] workinkindofhard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Every time you block an ad, a puppy gets hit by a truck. Is that really what you want?

I love puppies but I hate ads, sorry rover