There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

ravhall ,

There are more reasons than that, but it’s definitely near the top of my list.

PP_BOY_ OP ,
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Definitely, but if I was trying to make a sales pitch to an average person, that’s what I’d lead with. Add-ons on FF Mobile make something like YouTube Premium completely redundant

Voyajer ,
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Another reason for the average person: Ads eat up your data cap, they’re costing you money if your carrier/isp auto charges you if you go over.

AmbiguousProps ,

Every time I see an ad, I make a mental note to avoid the brand.

bruhsoulz ,

Amen to that brother 🔥

cm0002 ,

Why just use browser + addon when you can do system wide adblocking with AdAway on F-Droid.

It has a rootless mode, but I always root so I’ve forgotten what the downsides of rootless mode is though lol

bdonvr ,

Or pihole for whole home plus wireguard to VPN to your (ad blocked) home network while away.

bruhsoulz ,

Yukhk. I hate how so many of these services spend most of their efforts on marketing instead of making a decent product or experience. Isn’t mullvad one of the actual best VPN providers out there? NEVER seen them run an ad, hell, I only found out about them on accident due to mental outlaw, some ordinary gamers or the linux experiment. Can’t remember which tho.

leisesprecher ,

What’s really baffling to me is how completely irrelevant most ads are to me.

And I’m not saying “ads don’t work for me”, I get ads for products that I will never buy. I’m a man and YouTube recommends me tampons, lipstick and perfume. I also won’t buy a car anytime soon, yet I get tons of ads for cars.

Even in the mindset of an ad person, that can’t make sense. Sure, there is the off chance that I’ll buy lipstick for my girlfriend, but how likely is that and how much revenue will materialize from bombarding thousands of men with ads? That cannot be economically viable.

The actually infuriating part is, that we’re still paying for it. And the vendors as well. Only Google profits. If a company spends more on ads than necessary, their products will get more expensive, and those who buy their products will have to pay for it. So essentially I’m paying money for being advertised to, so Google can rake in billions.

dRLY ,
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I also went completely to FF on my phone the moment it had uBlock Origin and some other extensions. Now that I learned how to force other ones, it has been game over for other browsers aside from just seeing how they are every now and then (I work with general public and need to be aware of how they work). The only thing I would really really advise in addition to FF on a non-rooted device is setting the Mullvad ad-blocking/tracking blocking DNS for the device.

It helps even if I need to use a different browser (not as good as also having uBO), and has really good chances of blocking ads in many apps. For example, I kind of treat the Microsoft Solitaire app since it keeps games and stats from my PC. However they have lots of video ads that play after a couple of games. With the DNS it just kind of glitches when an ad should run and just goes on to the next round instead. The only odd thing I see with other apps is that it can cause my bank app to take a little longer to load when signing in (I am guessing due to tracking it is trying to do). But after like ten seconds it goes through like normal.

This is the DNS address to add if you want:

base.dns.mullvad.net/dns-query

And here is the main site for all their options and tester to make sure whichever one you pick is working:

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

monk ,

Also using mullvad dns everywhere.

bdonvr ,

70% add ons, 30% to fight Chrom(e)ium monopoly.

x00za ,

In the bottom right I read: “we spent $8.500.000 on HIS ad campaign”

For a moment I was confused and thought about how desperate these people would be

Kynn ,

Try Via, it has adblock and is way lighter than firefox on mobile. (I’m a desktop firefox’s user)

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