I honestly think mobile ads in free games and other apps are some of the lowest quality piles of garbage I’ve ever had the misfortune to see, and they are constant. How did we get to this point? Where they are so horribly unbearable and yet so commonplace?
The modern day mobile ad slop was the breaking point for me with ads, adblock is required now for viewing any website with ads.
I have a pihole.
Every time I go out onto LTE I experience the shittery that the rest of the world lives with every day. It is brutal. I have no idea how people do it.
It’s funny, even sync for lemmy I never use it outside because it also has huge shitty ads. But on my network all is nice and clean!
You can also host a VPN server with your pihole so you don’t get ads on LTE either.
Yea I’ve considered that but I’m afraid of opening up anything on my local network to the outside. I’m not sure I’m technical enough to risk accidentally opening something that’s a vector for attacks. I’m ok with everything only accessible from 192 I’m not out enough for it to matter too much.
Websites too, journalism pages in particular have become just ridiculous.
A nearly full screen ad after every 1-3 (short) paragraphs is just bullshit.
It’s 2024. How do you not have ad blockers everywhere?
It’s 2024 and you still don’t understand how advertising in mobile games works? Wow.
By continuing to use the same services that keep pumping ads into your face. How else?
I’ll show you how we got here. Ready for this.
We should make the internet as toxic and hostile to anyone using ads as possible because soon as people make money online through ad revenue it will grow so large we can never stop it again among other problems like looking away content and enshitification. Digitally copy and pirate all things that make money through ads. Make them pay for stealing your time and making everything worse. Every time we see an ad, make 5 posts or comments about how that product or service or thing gave you cancer or stared a fire or is haunted. Chase the bankers out of the temple with a whip.
And then people will say “but what about the content creators they need to get paid”
You can’t have both. You cannot have people earning money online through ads and an internet where ads don’t become the sole driver of all things online.
Android - Blockada.
Subscription instead of one time payment is a massive “fuck off” from me
I’ve only ever used the free version. V5
