Hey everyone did you know I WATCH PORN? I was just on PORNHUB watching PORN when I ran into issues trying to WATCH the PORN. Did I mention that I watch PORN?
I hate sex. I hate porn, I am tired of this. I really truly am, the only days I don't jerk off is when I have the rare moment of not having talked to a woman that day or ever accidentally seen some sexy images on an imageboard. Those blessed days are so sparse, where I will be blissfully unaware of anything sexual. I am fricking done, I can't take this shit anymore.
>when I have the rare moment of not having talked to a woman that day or ever accidentally seen some sexy images on an imageboard.
That's everyday for me. I keep jerking off because it's healthy.
works on my machine. might've updated to a version that pushed some anti-adblocking shit. idk. also, why the frick do jannies pretend to care about the quality of posts?
god i fricking hope so. i'm so tired of all this adblocking dogshit. these people unironically ruined the internet. some fricking autists couldn't stand seeing a 5 second ad on yt once every 10 videos, or a tiny banner on a news site shilling some other news site which was part of the whole network, and just had to create the most bloated, convoluted, huge fricking pile of scripts and hacks and filters to block every single possible ad on the internet. this of course forced companies to become more aggressive, and the autists fought back, then the companies got even more aggressive, and we're now locked in a war that no normal person ever fricking asked for, and the internet was made literally unusable unless you install one of the 'solutions' these autists provide. i'm so tired of it. i want to not have to have my browser load 50 billion userscripts, i want there to not be any frickhuge annoying adds everywhere if i turn those scripts off, i'm sick of this shit. i hope it and every other adblocker ever dies, so we can finally have a regular internet again
A small fraction of people actually use adblockers, most don't even know something like that exists, or have a shitty one that doesn't work 100%
YouTube wasn't breaking even with profits until like 2018, they were going to put in more ads anyway. Websites putting in tracking was just greed. Sites requiring accounts happened because they realized they can lock shit behind subscriptions.
Adblockers didn't cause enshittification, greed did
i think this greed you speak of was basically a trigger response from companies. i sincerely doubt the stalemate the internet was in prior to the introduction of ad blockers would've been altered to the point of major developments towards enshittification. it was basically the same way as real life. you walk/drive around to get where you need to go, you might see an ad or two down the road. you can get asked (key thing it wasn't mandatory) by random physical stores to subscribe to their catalogues so you have access to slightly better deals etc. In my opinion, the internet would've perfectly mimicked real-life approaches towards ads, and we could've been fine living with them the same way we do in real life. the fact that there was provocation (in the minds of companies) coming from autists looking to block every single trace of an ad was what lead us to where we are now. i truly don't believe it would've gotten as bad.
as for your point about the minority of people using adblockers, it's actually about a third of online users. that's a significant number. and even if it was less, companies still would've been triggered
maybe, maybe I'm moronic or naive, but i simply don't believe we would've gotten as badly fricked as you claim
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
That's fine, you can beleiev what you want, but at the end of the day you are using a service for free, they have to make money and keep the service going. Its entirely fair to put ads on the site.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
i agree. and i would've been fine seeing those ads and moving on with my day. unfortunately now it's pretty impossible
>some fricking autists couldn't stand seeing a 5 second ad on yt once every 10 videos, or a tiny banner on a news site
More like billion pop-ups when you open a website and the entire webpage itself is covered in banners. I've been on the internet since the 90's so I know you're full of shit.
please elaborate or you're just a useless troll. the majority of mainstream shit people used and cared about was not as ad infested and trash as you claim. I don't know what fricking obscure tracker or random porn site or forum you were visiting, but useful websites were perfectly usable, unlike today
Niche forums and websites were The Internet back then. Who gives a frick about mainstream shit like news sites?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
so in your experience, the majority of websites had a billion pop-ups and were covered in banners? you're saying basically pretty much anywhere you went on the internet, you would be spammed by ads?
NTA, but on dialup, every single ad-banner took several seconds to load. On some sites, sometimes the website wouldn't load until all the images were ready or the formatting would constantly change. There was a period when I simply turned off images and loaded the ones that were relevant. Not a huge deal but a lot of designers were definitely not optimizing file sizes or worse have huge animated gifs. A large image could make scrolling a site sluggish. The fact that tech sites used to do browser reviews where they would benchmark and time how long it took to render a site etc whereas we no one does this nowadays (or if they do, no one is interested) when a new version of a browser comes out says a lot.
Then javascript came along and it was ad-companies that dialed up the cancer. Javascript could be pretty resource intensive for computers back then and in the nineties you had people running on everything from 486s with dozens of megahertz to Pentiums at hundreds. Popups were everywhere and could be engineered to game clickthroughs to make server or site owners a lot of extra money. Not to mention the security vulnerabilities and now your experience was far worse if you were on dialup. There were a lot of obnoxious popups that would do things to prevent you from closing them, have endless redirects, system dialogs, and other things.
Throw flash into the mix and that could trash the browsing snappiness of even people on broadband and fast computers. And MOST surfing back had a lot of variety for websites so it was pretty common to encounter popups and flash. As far as I recall, most websites were fine but the minority that weren't prompted me to install ad block. The internet has basically consolidated to a few major websites and most of those are ad-supported with sponsored links, affiliate links, HTML5 video autoplaying, and regular ads. So, sorry ad shill, adblock stays.
You have +18 years old and still believe the market operates on a good will clausule or something? Do you think Google wouldn't rack up more artificial money adding more ads just because 3% of its userbase would be forced to watch ads (or what actually would happen, dramatically reduce the use of its servicrs)?
>some fricking autists couldn't stand seeing a 5 second ad on yt once every 10 videos, or a tiny banner on a news site shilling some other news site
Anon, virtually nobody used adblockers back when the web was like this. It's not like this anymore.
AdGuard is great, really. But what's the main difference between it and uBlock Origin? IIRC it's based off uBO and upstream has borrowed some cool shit from AdGuard but that's about it.
I paid for the lifetime licence across three devices and see zero ads - it's when I disable it I see how much its blocking. the single best value purchase I've ever made mate
I paid for the lifetime licence across three devices and see zero ads - it's when I disable it I see how much its blocking. the single best value purchase I've ever made mate
>this piece of shit no longer works for me on Chrome on porn websites and rargb when using Chrome
ublock never claimed to work perfectly on chromium based browsers. Matter of fact Gorhill (the developer of ublock origin) suggest users to use Firefox if they want 100% efficient adblocking experience. He even wrote a blog and appeal for it.
Anyway, npcs deserve what they get.
It's a bit disingenuous to omit the fact that Firefox doesn't have any per-site permissions and never lets extensions access local files and the cache mechanism is worse but whatever. Firefox users seem to view extensions more as part of the browser than a thing running in the browser.
I'm surprised that Google haven't banned ublock yet.
Maybe that's too obvious though. In reality they're probably detecting that you've got it installed and silently bypassing it every so often.
Put pressure on them to do what? If people are blocking ads then it means google's ad buyers are spending more money trying to circumvent the problem. That's a win for google. Also the amount of people that block ads is fairly small. It's mostly just geeks who wouldn't have bought products from those ads anyway
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
No no no no no jesus frick how do so many people get this backwards? Advertisers like adblockers because people with a low ad propensity opting out of seeing them altogether boosts ads' CPMs and, the way most contracts are currently written, don't even directly increase ad spot prices. Adblockers are still priced in when Google et al are selling ads in the first place but people targeting adblock-prone demographics benefit disproportionaly.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I don't think you realise how fricked the new google ads experience is. It's pretty much highway robbery
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Good, maybe companies will buy less ads then.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Your right, I dont, because I choose not to use the garbage YouTube website. If you still arent using an alternative in 2024 you have only yourself to blame.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Anon, this conversation is about companies that buy google ads, not consumers that watch youtube ads.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Yeah, advertisers hate extensions like AdNauseum, and that one got pulled from the CWS in less than three weeks.
The fallout would be enormously harmful to Google. Every news outlet would run a story about Google banning ad blockers, people would flock to upload uBlock clones to the Chrome Web Store and Google would have to start banning those too, and many users would switch browsers as a result.
Instead, Google is trying to silently kill it by nerfing its effectiveness with manifest v3. They are acting on it, just not in a way that will trigger the Streisand effect in full and bring the eye of Sauron on their activities.
>this piece of shit no longer works for me on Chrome on porn websites and rargb when using Chrome >Did they compromise it?
The dev has been saying Chrome is dogshit for years and telling everyone to use it with Firefox. Not anyone else's fault you use Chrome
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox
Ok. Everyone here shilling against Chrome, can you PLEASE tell me a single browser that is solid for PC AND mobile as well?
Brave is dogshit on mobile, and it uses 30% more RAM than Chrome anyways, Firefox is complete garbage on mobile (that UI makes me vomit), and Edge is just a meme on both ends. There is no browser that is good on both ends, it's either one or the other. Chrome is the only one I've tried out of all the big browsers that has a good simple UI on both devices.
And yes, having it on mobile is important because I go through my synced bookmarks and previous tabs across devices daily.
Firefox on PC.
Kiwi or Cromite on mobile.
These are only the real alternatives. >inb4 Firefricks mobile
Sure, if you want to browse the web like you're on a $50 chinkphone.
Also, imagine not having DoH on a browser that claims to protect your ~~*privacy*~~
le shill lion supremacy
I'm a Brave employee. IQfy is bringing us yuge profits. So keep shilling. You're doing us all at Brave a yuge favor. Thanks!
Fake, the vast majority of IQfy users disable every telemetry and crypto shit that brings Brave money.
>majority of IQfy users
>competent at tech
>when majority of IQfy isn't even
lolmao
>rargb
real rarbg has been shut down for a while now, you're accessing a phishing site.
works on my machine
>Did they compromise it?
They probably created it.
Hey everyone did you know I WATCH PORN? I was just on PORNHUB watching PORN when I ran into issues trying to WATCH the PORN. Did I mention that I watch PORN?
I hate sex. I hate porn, I am tired of this. I really truly am, the only days I don't jerk off is when I have the rare moment of not having talked to a woman that day or ever accidentally seen some sexy images on an imageboard. Those blessed days are so sparse, where I will be blissfully unaware of anything sexual. I am fricking done, I can't take this shit anymore.
k
You won't stop though
>when I have the rare moment of not having talked to a woman that day or ever accidentally seen some sexy images on an imageboard.
That's everyday for me. I keep jerking off because it's healthy.
Do a flip homosexual
>the rare moment of not having talked to a woman that day
>Implying you talk to women on an almost daily basis
um you aren't actually an addict you just have a bad personality
I, unironically, named my porn folder 'PORN'
Yes, in capitals. Thank god for luks!
>Chrome
Get cucked ChromeTard !
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commits/master/
works on my machine. might've updated to a version that pushed some anti-adblocking shit. idk. also, why the frick do jannies pretend to care about the quality of posts?
>He doesn't know about Chrome getting rid of ManifestV2, effectively nerfing UBO
>two more weeks and manifest v2 will be removed!!!
>chrome
There's your problem
Did you enable all the filters? And make sure to subscribe to frickfrickadblock
god i fricking hope so. i'm so tired of all this adblocking dogshit. these people unironically ruined the internet. some fricking autists couldn't stand seeing a 5 second ad on yt once every 10 videos, or a tiny banner on a news site shilling some other news site which was part of the whole network, and just had to create the most bloated, convoluted, huge fricking pile of scripts and hacks and filters to block every single possible ad on the internet. this of course forced companies to become more aggressive, and the autists fought back, then the companies got even more aggressive, and we're now locked in a war that no normal person ever fricking asked for, and the internet was made literally unusable unless you install one of the 'solutions' these autists provide. i'm so tired of it. i want to not have to have my browser load 50 billion userscripts, i want there to not be any frickhuge annoying adds everywhere if i turn those scripts off, i'm sick of this shit. i hope it and every other adblocker ever dies, so we can finally have a regular internet again
A small fraction of people actually use adblockers, most don't even know something like that exists, or have a shitty one that doesn't work 100%
YouTube wasn't breaking even with profits until like 2018, they were going to put in more ads anyway. Websites putting in tracking was just greed. Sites requiring accounts happened because they realized they can lock shit behind subscriptions.
Adblockers didn't cause enshittification, greed did
i think this greed you speak of was basically a trigger response from companies. i sincerely doubt the stalemate the internet was in prior to the introduction of ad blockers would've been altered to the point of major developments towards enshittification. it was basically the same way as real life. you walk/drive around to get where you need to go, you might see an ad or two down the road. you can get asked (key thing it wasn't mandatory) by random physical stores to subscribe to their catalogues so you have access to slightly better deals etc. In my opinion, the internet would've perfectly mimicked real-life approaches towards ads, and we could've been fine living with them the same way we do in real life. the fact that there was provocation (in the minds of companies) coming from autists looking to block every single trace of an ad was what lead us to where we are now. i truly don't believe it would've gotten as bad.
as for your point about the minority of people using adblockers, it's actually about a third of online users. that's a significant number. and even if it was less, companies still would've been triggered
I dont think you know what greed means
maybe, maybe I'm moronic or naive, but i simply don't believe we would've gotten as badly fricked as you claim
That's fine, you can beleiev what you want, but at the end of the day you are using a service for free, they have to make money and keep the service going. Its entirely fair to put ads on the site.
i agree. and i would've been fine seeing those ads and moving on with my day. unfortunately now it's pretty impossible
Its irrelevant. You said its greed, it isnt
i never said it was greed
You did bit you do you
>some fricking autists couldn't stand seeing a 5 second ad on yt once every 10 videos, or a tiny banner on a news site
More like billion pop-ups when you open a website and the entire webpage itself is covered in banners. I've been on the internet since the 90's so I know you're full of shit.
please elaborate or you're just a useless troll. the majority of mainstream shit people used and cared about was not as ad infested and trash as you claim. I don't know what fricking obscure tracker or random porn site or forum you were visiting, but useful websites were perfectly usable, unlike today
Niche forums and websites were The Internet back then. Who gives a frick about mainstream shit like news sites?
so in your experience, the majority of websites had a billion pop-ups and were covered in banners? you're saying basically pretty much anywhere you went on the internet, you would be spammed by ads?
NTA, but on dialup, every single ad-banner took several seconds to load. On some sites, sometimes the website wouldn't load until all the images were ready or the formatting would constantly change. There was a period when I simply turned off images and loaded the ones that were relevant. Not a huge deal but a lot of designers were definitely not optimizing file sizes or worse have huge animated gifs. A large image could make scrolling a site sluggish. The fact that tech sites used to do browser reviews where they would benchmark and time how long it took to render a site etc whereas we no one does this nowadays (or if they do, no one is interested) when a new version of a browser comes out says a lot.
Then javascript came along and it was ad-companies that dialed up the cancer. Javascript could be pretty resource intensive for computers back then and in the nineties you had people running on everything from 486s with dozens of megahertz to Pentiums at hundreds. Popups were everywhere and could be engineered to game clickthroughs to make server or site owners a lot of extra money. Not to mention the security vulnerabilities and now your experience was far worse if you were on dialup. There were a lot of obnoxious popups that would do things to prevent you from closing them, have endless redirects, system dialogs, and other things.
Throw flash into the mix and that could trash the browsing snappiness of even people on broadband and fast computers. And MOST surfing back had a lot of variety for websites so it was pretty common to encounter popups and flash. As far as I recall, most websites were fine but the minority that weren't prompted me to install ad block. The internet has basically consolidated to a few major websites and most of those are ad-supported with sponsored links, affiliate links, HTML5 video autoplaying, and regular ads. So, sorry ad shill, adblock stays.
You have +18 years old and still believe the market operates on a good will clausule or something? Do you think Google wouldn't rack up more artificial money adding more ads just because 3% of its userbase would be forced to watch ads (or what actually would happen, dramatically reduce the use of its servicrs)?
>some fricking autists couldn't stand seeing a 5 second ad on yt once every 10 videos, or a tiny banner on a news site shilling some other news site
Anon, virtually nobody used adblockers back when the web was like this. It's not like this anymore.
>chrome cuck
moron
i jerk off to porn, my new thing is racially charged lesbian foot domination
>porn
Kys coomer
>Adguard
join me in the sun brother
AdGuard is great, really. But what's the main difference between it and uBlock Origin? IIRC it's based off uBO and upstream has borrowed some cool shit from AdGuard but that's about it.
I paid for the lifetime licence across three devices and see zero ads - it's when I disable it I see how much its blocking. the single best value purchase I've ever made mate
>paying for an adblocker
lol
lmao
no problems here, must be a you problem
>this piece of shit no longer works for me on Chrome on porn websites and rargb when using Chrome
ublock never claimed to work perfectly on chromium based browsers. Matter of fact Gorhill (the developer of ublock origin) suggest users to use Firefox if they want 100% efficient adblocking experience. He even wrote a blog and appeal for it.
Anyway, npcs deserve what they get.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox
It's a bit disingenuous to omit the fact that Firefox doesn't have any per-site permissions and never lets extensions access local files and the cache mechanism is worse but whatever. Firefox users seem to view extensions more as part of the browser than a thing running in the browser.
>porn
KYS.
>using chrome
Die
Stop using chrome
Use the element picker to block, and check your blocklists, update them. IMO adguard lists are better than easylists.
>chrome
fricking moron
>t. Firefox shill poster
stop watching porn you degenerate frick
works on my machine
>no longer works for me
You know you have to update your lists right?
You can't do that anymore without giving yourself carpal tunnel syndrome. Faster to just reinsall.
>rargb
i thought it died years ago
I'm surprised that Google haven't banned ublock yet.
Maybe that's too obvious though. In reality they're probably detecting that you've got it installed and silently bypassing it every so often.
The advertising arm of the business doesn't have any control over the Chrome Web Store or Play Store.
You really believe that one of the biggest money makers in Google can't put pressure on the chrome team?
Put pressure on them to do what? If people are blocking ads then it means google's ad buyers are spending more money trying to circumvent the problem. That's a win for google. Also the amount of people that block ads is fairly small. It's mostly just geeks who wouldn't have bought products from those ads anyway
No no no no no jesus frick how do so many people get this backwards? Advertisers like adblockers because people with a low ad propensity opting out of seeing them altogether boosts ads' CPMs and, the way most contracts are currently written, don't even directly increase ad spot prices. Adblockers are still priced in when Google et al are selling ads in the first place but people targeting adblock-prone demographics benefit disproportionaly.
I don't think you realise how fricked the new google ads experience is. It's pretty much highway robbery
Good, maybe companies will buy less ads then.
Your right, I dont, because I choose not to use the garbage YouTube website. If you still arent using an alternative in 2024 you have only yourself to blame.
Anon, this conversation is about companies that buy google ads, not consumers that watch youtube ads.
Yeah, advertisers hate extensions like AdNauseum, and that one got pulled from the CWS in less than three weeks.
The fallout would be enormously harmful to Google. Every news outlet would run a story about Google banning ad blockers, people would flock to upload uBlock clones to the Chrome Web Store and Google would have to start banning those too, and many users would switch browsers as a result.
Instead, Google is trying to silently kill it by nerfing its effectiveness with manifest v3. They are acting on it, just not in a way that will trigger the Streisand effect in full and bring the eye of Sauron on their activities.
>Chrome
Here's the problem.
>Chrome
>Rargb
This is bait right? Please someone tell me this is bait, this site can't be this moronic
Works on my machine. Maybe chrome finally enabled the manifest thing?
>chrome
GOOD MORNING SAAAAARS
you are using ungoogled chrome???
Sent from my GNU/Linux
>this piece of shit no longer works for me on Chrome on porn websites and rargb when using Chrome
>Did they compromise it?
The dev has been saying Chrome is dogshit for years and telling everyone to use it with Firefox. Not anyone else's fault you use Chrome
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox
Read the thread
Firefox anon.
Chrome is made for advertising.
>rargb
time traveling anon?
>porn websites
stop watching porn and rotting your brain moron
>and rargb
this shit doesn't even exist anymore
Ok. Everyone here shilling against Chrome, can you PLEASE tell me a single browser that is solid for PC AND mobile as well?
Brave is dogshit on mobile, and it uses 30% more RAM than Chrome anyways, Firefox is complete garbage on mobile (that UI makes me vomit), and Edge is just a meme on both ends. There is no browser that is good on both ends, it's either one or the other. Chrome is the only one I've tried out of all the big browsers that has a good simple UI on both devices.
And yes, having it on mobile is important because I go through my synced bookmarks and previous tabs across devices daily.
>Firefox is complete garbage on mobile (that UI makes me vomit)
Yeah, us girls can't stand things that aren't pretty and flowery.
>no tab groups on phone to organize 30+ tabs open at once
Sorry, not using your gay fox browser
Firefox on PC.
Kiwi or Cromite on mobile.
These are only the real alternatives.
>inb4 Firefricks mobile
Sure, if you want to browse the web like you're on a $50 chinkphone.
Also, imagine not having DoH on a browser that claims to protect your ~~*privacy*~~
Does DoH cause any problems or is it only when "bad apps" like YouTube do it?
moron
have you tried firefox? Xvideos, pornhub work like a charm for me on firefox.
You compromised your soul
>rargb
Well, at least you did not download any executables? Right?