Post #802078
2026-03-26 21:43 UTC
Replies (24)
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@tezoatlipoca@mas.to 2026-03-26 22:36
Do any of these CMS and online-ad platform/network #productmanagers realize that if they were to just go back to unobtrusive only-static-image ads embedded in the html of the page itself I would fucking put eyeballs on those? But noooo, we gotta have modal popups and pay-gates and minimize-in-the-corner auto-play videos. This worked just fine until 2010 then ya went and ballzed it up.
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@jasonkarns@indieweb.social 2026-03-26 23:58
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to or they said the correct thing and they don’t consider their content indistinguishable from ads. When someone shows you who they are, believe them!
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@ned@beige.party 2026-03-27 00:02
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to The ads prevent everything from loading for me.
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@WizardOfDocs@wandering.shop 2026-03-27 00:20
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to "an adblocker is preventing this page from loading." Oh, it sounds like the page is all ads then. Cool, enjoy that, I'm off to do something else.
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@TheGreatLlama@kolektiva.social 2026-03-27 01:21
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to My favorite version of this is, "We care about your experience." What, are you afraid it might be too good?
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@Ultraverified@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-03-27 01:25
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to Easy solution - block the entire webpage.
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@azterlights@mastodon.ie 2026-03-27 01:44
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to youtube's whack a mole with ad-blockers are equally annoying, I use Ublock origin on both Firefox and Chrome and they sometimes videos take a long time to load, keeps on buffering due to enabling ad blockers.
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@Shards@kind.social 2026-03-27 02:25
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to @AdmiralMemo@mastodon.social 👻 “Please consider turning off your adblocker to view this page.” “Okay!” “…It’s still on.” “Correct! 😃” “…But we asked…” “You sure did! So I considered it, and decided I wouldn’t. But thanks for looking out for my security sense though! 😉”
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@dark_stang@kind.social 2026-03-27 03:00
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to every site I've seen this on so far ended up having garbage generated content anyway
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@paco@infosec.exchange 2026-03-27 03:08
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to When a website says “we need to talk about your ad blocker,” I think “No. No we don’t.”
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@Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 08:27
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to It's the people behind that site lying. They've paid to have their site display that lying message when an ad browser is detected. Once they've identified themselves as liars, why would they expect to be believed by anyone who disabled their adblocker?
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@gsc@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-27 08:42
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to Vanadium Browser -> settings -> site settings -> java script blocked by default (can be enabled individually) Those simple steps invert the whole content-slop-relationship and you decide deliberately which websites can start to do their tricks on you. The effect is amazing.
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@TheSwiv@hear-me.social 2026-03-27 08:59
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to 🎯
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@Eurospoofer@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 09:05
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to similar to 'your privacy matters to us' so please make 45 clicks to turn off our tracking cookies because we refuse to provide a reject all button. Reads to me like, we don't want people visiting our site
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@Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-27 17:09
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to @alice@lgbtqia.space I can’t get UPS.com to load even if I disable the ad blockers 🤷
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@SymTrkl@anarres.family 2026-03-27 20:42
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to The ad blocker prevents ads from loading. The rest of the page is just them throwing a fit like a toddler.
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@JigmeDatse@social.openpsychology.net 2026-03-27 21:31
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to "Fine thanks, I didn't really need it anyway..." Usually a fair response in my opinion. I have to disable "No Script" or some such occasionally on my "click link and open things up" browser. Meaning I need to enable the running of scripts for that site. That seems fair. If I "must see ads" I don't need to see the content you are blocking me from seeing.
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@clf@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-03-27 21:45
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to nothing turns me away from a website faster than this, with "become a member to continue reading" as a close second
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@t3rcermillenium@mastodon.social 2026-03-28 09:19
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to My ad blocker is never turned off. Sometimes I might allow JS to run. Only sometimes. If I can’t read a page under these conditions, then I don’t read the page. The information I was seeking is most likely available elsewhere. Don’t get me wrong. I subscribe and pay for some sites; it’s only right to support sites you value. But ads? Never. Simple as that.
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@hydropsyche@ecoevo.social 2026-03-28 12:25
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to Many of these are still readable in Reader mode in the browser. The New York Times and Washington Post are two of the only sites that have actually successfully blocked Reader mode. Most of the rest of the internet is still blissfully readable as text like it's 1999.
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@Lstn2urmama4@zeroes.ca 2026-03-29 05:14
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to my blocker has good days and bad ones some days I would like to slap it for not doing the job ..
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@riggbeck@mastodon.social 2026-03-30 11:10
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to I'm a fundamentalist about ads on the internet: they're evil and I don't want any of them polluting my screen. I can remember a time when there weren't any. That makes a huge difference in the way I think about them.
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@thanius@mastodon.chuggybumba.com 2026-03-30 11:12
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to I don't even have an ad blocker turned on, but still not being served because I don't allow ads to track me. I don't mind unintrusive ads, especially if I'm not paying for the service.
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@MxAlba@blahaj.zone 2026-04-10 08:07
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to When I'm at home I use the Triple Whammy: 1) Pihole DNS filter that uses... 2) Quad9 as its backend DNS service, and... 3) uBlock Origin in my browser I kinda respect ads that manage to still get through. :blobcat_lol: