Like, WHY. WHY DO WE NEED TO WATCH A 60+ SECOND UNSKIPPABLE AD, THEN ON TV, WHY DOES IT SAY, MOVE ON TO THE NEXT?!?! I swear on everything, YouTube is making even more bad updates, and having even more ads. I don‘t think I can take this anymore.
 | I have tried looking it up on youtube google, and even reddit. The readme file that comes with it is also useless as its just the FAQs. Im trying to ad block spotify. I know there are alternatives, but I can't use them because of where I live, and i cant afford vpn so... Thanks a lot [link] [comments] |
 | Opera GX, Incognito Tabs because convenience. Non-incognito doesn't have the issue for some reason [link] [comments] |
I've been a uBO user for a long time and this post is about my curiousity. Tried AdGuard for half an hour and it actually gave me a higher Speedometer result with only AdGuard on. I always thought uBO had the best performance among adblockers. Anyways, I assume both are amazing. What do you think about this comparison, which one is better for you?
Spotify can play music without ads, but switch to a podcast and suddenly there's someone talking about mattresses or meal kits for two minutes.
The tricky part is that a lot of podcast ads are baked right into the content, so regular ad blockers and DNS filtering can't really do much.
And this isn't really about finding another ad-blocking tool. I'm wondering if ads become almost impossible to block once creators start making them part of the content itself.
so, is there actually a better way to deal with them?
Tried 45 news sites with nothing blocking. the middle article sent 464 of its 650 requests to ad companies and trackers. one NY Post article made over 4,000 requests for a single story, which is a bit insane.
then I found out pretty much every blocker (AdBlock, ABP, uBO, Brave, AdGuard) uses the same free list underneath, and most of that list is written by one guy in New Zealand.
made a page about it if anyone's curious, there's a fake site full of popups you can switch the blocker on for:
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