I genuinely haven't seen any ads for 20 years now except in the odd waiting room or someone else's house. It's surprising how creepy and strange they are once you're a few years removed from them. You start to notice parallels between cult members and people who don't avert their eyes from ads.

I was talking about this with my wife the other day. I just can't understand how people are as OK with ads as they are.

Let me add to your rant with an additional pet peeve of mine: Usually when people rant about the advertising some smug assholes in the comment sections say "You think you are immune but it works on you, otherwise they wouldn't spend millions on it".

When did money become the sole metric with which we judge the merit of ideas? Did the billionaire who died in the titan submersible incident not shut up the crowd making such an argument?

I got banned from twitter for a week back before it went nazi by shit talking every ad it put in front of me.

I fucking hate ads! Nothing makes me want to buy something less than seeing an ad for something I never asked for in the first place. If I need something I will look it up myself!

You'd think, with all the fucking data they collect on me, they'd know that I don't have any money and I don't buy anything unless I absolutely have to.

The worst is the unmutable advertisements at the gas pump.

Some you can mute, if you press the correct hidden button. But more and more I'm finding them without the mute button. So I start pressing random buttons and combinations of buttons, until something works.

The pump by my house goes into a maintenance mode when you press a certain button combination, and then it tells you to go inside to pay (as if I hadn't already swiped my card). But the ads are muted, and the charge still shows up on my account, the correct amount and everything, so it's paid for. I don't go in. The pump automatically leaves maintenance mode when I finish pumping. No harm no foul.

I try to avoid stations I know have ads, but I travel a lot for work, so it's hard.

I do exactly same.

advertisers can gargle my ballsack

There should be a 100% tax on every company's advertising budget. For every dollar they spend on advertising they should have to pay just as much.

Every day brings us closer to All-Despising Baby Skull.

I only ever witness an ad on my computer when there's something new that isn't in my list of black listed domains on my pihole server.

In that case, a few clicks later they are on the "lol, no" list and I never see them again.

No smart tvs are allowed on my Wi-Fi. Instead they have tiny Linux PCs that let me watch whatever I please, ad free.

My mobile phone is graphene OS. My mobile browser has an ad blocker and works perfectly on things like YouTube.

News articles blocked by ads AREN'T when viewed via archive.is.

None of these things are hard enough that a beginner can't do the same.

I DARE you to do the same.

I hope that YouTube, Instagram, and Pandora notice that I close their app every time I see a gambling ad

That’s exactly what I do, and I wield adblockers with the fury of merging supermassive black holes.

When I see an advertisement, I intentionally do not purchase the product

new pipe is great for watching youtube on andoid without ads (tubular is a fork with sponsorblock), and kodi is a great home entertainment system with plugins that allow streaming youtube without ads :3

For a while I enacted a weeklong boycott of anything for which I saw an ad, resetting each time I saw one.

It helped cut down on my soda and fast food intake. Otherwise (American) ads are mostly for insurance, medications, vehicles, and phones/plans.

And I am actively avoiding products and companies based on their advertising.

Dude claims he is more anti ad than most yet does not mention using an adblocker. Curious.

I've been using this HOSTS file for over two decades to prevent ads.

HOSTS + Ublock Origin + Privacy Badger 🤌

Have you guys noticed a recent trend where a site will continually reload, presenting a dialog box about "being unable to load, click here to try again"? It winds up at a message about adblockers being bad and how to disable it. Otherwise you can't read the recipe/review/discussion.

Only trick I've found so far is to outright disable javascript on that site using noscript. Any other ideas?

If someone is annoyed by ads and wants to block them I strongly recommend Pihole. It got its name because it is often used on a Raspberry pi but it can be used on other units as well.

Setting up Pihole

Blocklist for Pihole Pro is the recommended but already the light version will reduce ads a lot if you don't do anything to block ads today.

The alternative is to get a browser based on Firefox with the add-on Ublock Origin. Even if you use Pihole at home it is good to get Firefox + Ublock Origin or DuckduckGo on your phone since the Pihole will not block anything for you when you are outside of your Wifi.