What’s worse is you have no idea how bad we’ve been propagandized to think that there is any amount of ads that is “normal.”
The first time you are traveling through a European countryside and you don’t see any billboards on the side of roads, as Americans we are flabbergasted.
It’s something that’s become so normalized here in the US that being somewhere without them feels almost like time-traveling now.
Europeans don’t even realize how crazy it is here.
You can be driving to the middle of fucking east Texas and you’ll see LITERALLY hundreds of billboards along just a 50 mile stretch, advertising everything from truck-driving scam schools to religious propaganda condemning you for presumptively not believing how God‘s going to smite you for thinking women should have a say in how to be in control of their bodies or some shit.
I will never be convinced that any amount of ad blocking, pi-hole installation, DNS sanitizing, VPN protection, 3rd party app that taps quietly into shittier ad-riddled 1st party app content layers to siphon out only what I want to see, etc. are not me just merely using my very limited ability to fight back against an insane amount of their overreach.
First off, I couldn’t care less about ad blocking and I’m not here to moralise what anyone else does.
I do however think your point is somewhat undermined by the fact YouTube have an ad free option. You can legitimately make the ads disappear and YouTube have no issue with it.
What’s worse is you have no idea how bad we’ve been propagandized to think that there is any amount of ads that is “normal.”
The first time you are traveling through a European countryside and you don’t see any billboards on the side of roads, as Americans we are flabbergasted.
It’s something that’s become so normalized here in the US that being somewhere without them feels almost like time-traveling now.
Europeans don’t even realize how crazy it is here.
You can be driving to the middle of fucking east Texas and you’ll see LITERALLY hundreds of billboards along just a 50 mile stretch, advertising everything from truck-driving scam schools to religious propaganda condemning you for presumptively not believing how God‘s going to smite you for thinking women should have a say in how to be in control of their bodies or some shit.
I will never be convinced that any amount of ad blocking, pi-hole installation, DNS sanitizing, VPN protection, 3rd party app that taps quietly into shittier ad-riddled 1st party app content layers to siphon out only what I want to see, etc. are not me just merely using my very limited ability to fight back against an insane amount of their overreach.
First off, I couldn’t care less about ad blocking and I’m not here to moralise what anyone else does.
I do however think your point is somewhat undermined by the fact YouTube have an ad free option. You can legitimately make the ads disappear and YouTube have no issue with it.