Friday, August 28, 2026

What are the purpose of those "Flashing Ads"?

So, in some websites, there are "flashing ads". These are pop-up ads that often show up with a very small square-sized pop-up window at any of the corner of your screen. Even more strangely, if you try to close it down. It will start "blinking". By "blinking", I mean that the pop-up window will start jumping between any two corners of your screen to avoid it being closed.

By the browsing history, I got the address, which looks very weird too, e.g. (I know this segmentation of URL is stupid but reddit will remove my post if I simply copy-paste it. And also to avoid people from clicking it.)

The first part of the URL (after https://) is: gcpstkgpmcjwtq

The middle part of the URL is: .com/?

The last part of the URL (which seems to be generated differently every time) is: js=KIa3gQbAKrR6y5YMuHS08wbdwPOSnrM5A9HyX-hxVlEeaE86ALkXhS2IWPNbAJw9yikvFbHXlxbuqV9oWrcdlRkpIZFOB-znG4MReiUv6-qR-Kj-6ziH2oRxXIY4g3vrufEalwZaxedZ20H-kHzkPlfsG1bG91h3yrpdKGkPmjFGifcswDWngdPa6gSUzZkZfytsxjpLJVTj

Could any explain this? What's the purpose of it? What should I be aware of?

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Need a good ad blocker for watching anime 😭

I used to watch anime on random websites using Brave because the ad blocker used to work perfectly. I also used AniLab since it had a download option, but now that’s gone too 😭. I still have a few websites I can use, but the ads and pop-ups are sooo annoying. Brave’s ad blocker doesn’t seem to work anymore, so what do you guys use? Is there any good ad blocker/browser that actually works?

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Spotify Adblocker extensions for Chrome wont work

Anyone else experiencing this? All my adblockers mostly stopped working for Spotify. Sure they block ads but theyre also skipping like 3-5 songs each time so listening to albums is terrible and I cant pick and choose any specific songs to listen to.

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DuckDuckGo browser doesn’t work anymore, I need MORE youtube alternatives ONCE AGAIN!!

And now the DuckDuckGo browser after an hour of working perfectly no longer works and I got the exact same ad I described last time on another video just now!!! THIS IS BEYOND AGGRAVATINGLY RIDICULOUS!!!!

I used to use keltube without any issues at all until the update last month that set a month long limit on watching videos without a subscription that made me delete the app on the spot! Keltube, my only working solution that was left, has now become a PAID ADBLOCKER with all of my Playlists I made on it effectively DELETED, JUST LIKE WITH BLUEPLAYER!!!

Now I’m left with absolutely NOTHING!!! ONCE AGAIN!!!! Piped, Invidious, Invuedious, Poketube, Skipvids, Blueplayer, Keltube, Cloudtube, Viewtube, SwizzTube, Tubo, even the Brave browser ALL DON’T WORK!!!

Every! Single!! TIME!!! Every single time that an iOS app or browser for my tablet FINALLY works, it either suddenly doesn’t or becomes a PAID ADBLOCKER!!! Sometimes with my Playlists I’ve made over the months becoming unusable and WORTHLESS!!!

And before you say Yattee, that ALSO doesn’t work!! I’ve tried multiple times to search for videos with multiple host names and not ONE single video has shown up in my searches!!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!! Is THIS what I have to deal with just because I want to watch Todd in The Shadows’ Top 10 Worst Hit Songs videos!? The ONLY solutions I now have either have ads INSIDE the app that is SUPPOSED to BLOCK ADS or demand a subscription, making them PAID ADBLOCKERS that are NOT allowed on this very subreddit!!

We now need Adblockers for fridges, TV software, PC monitors, toasters, cars and even TOILET PAPER DISPENSERS IN TOILETS THAT CAN’T GET ADBLOCKERS PUT ON THEM BY THE PUBLIC!!!! And now playstation is genuinely considering ads IN THE CONSOLE DURING GAMEPLAY, meaning that in the middle of a boss fight in a hard game, right when you’re about to deal the final blow in a game that can’t be paused, YOU GET KICKED DOWN TO THE GROUND BY A DAYS-LONG UNSKIPPABLE AD HARMING YOUR EYES AND EARS AS YOUR CHARACTER DIES AND YOU LOSE ALL YOUR PROGRESS IN THE LEVEL OVER SOMETHING THAT WASN’T YOUR FAULT MEANING YOU’VE LOST POTENTIAL DAYS OF PROGRESS SO WE NOW NEED TO HACK THE CONSOLE TO INSTALL AN ADBLOCKER ON THE GAME CONSOLE ITSELF TO STOP PROGRESS FROM BEING LOST OUT OF THE PLAYER’S CONTROL!!!!!

I keep searching!!! I KEEP SEARCHING!!!! NOTHING is a permanent solution!!! It’s every single time like this that I have to ask what alternatives are STILL remaining after I’ve used more than TWELVE different alternatives for iOS!!

I!! Need!!! More!!!! ALTERNATIVES!!!!! ONCE AGAIN!!!!!!

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Thursday, August 27, 2026

Now I'm tired of watching YouTube ads!

If I watch a videos on YouTube two unskippable ads start playing on my phone and I can't skip them the ads are so irritating I don't want to buy a youtube subscription because youtube content is free, so everyone have any solution?

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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Who hates ads

If anyone hates ads well you're in luck because I do too and they got to stop ads on mobile phones

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Ad blockers for Instagram?

Like the title says, is it possible to block Instagram ads? Spotify too? The ads are becoming obnoxious.

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