Ad blockers

[Athlonite]

aka the real chromium-based browser

Vivaldi would like to discuss that with you

 

[lexluthermiester]

Vivaldi would like to discuss that with you

Brave too.

 

[Athlonite]

While you're at it, maybe install SponsorBlock for Youtube. It skips over those sponsored sections where the Youtuber drones on about a product you will never buy. You may choose to whitelist your favorite creators, but it's really nice for channels that do not respect your time and have as much ad time as they have content.

I don't mind the sponsor ads but I refuse to watch the garbage that Pootube tries to shovel onto me

 

[Pets4Ever]

I don't mind the sponsor ads but I refuse to watch the garbage that Pootube tries to shovel onto me

Some channels are just really egregious about the quality and quantity of their sponsorship ads. For example, the podcast Talkville, a podcast for the show Smallville, has overlong intelligence-insulting ad reads. Sometimes the ads are edited in to cut off whoever was talking mid-sentence and the show doesn't resume on what was cut off. The ratio of ads to content is also quite bad. If you contrast this with a podcast like Trash Taste, they have short, snappy blurbs about the product that attempt to be entertaining and get you back to the podcast asap. The time spent on them in total is much lower despite their episodes having double the runtime.

I have since stopped watching that lousy Talkville podcast, but I just wanted to illustrate that why you might want to block sponsors for certain channels

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

I don't mind the sponsor ads but I refuse to watch the garbage that Pootube tries to shovel onto me

If Google would stop with the censoring, the blackballing, the deleting of comments, fix their bot problems, and stop trying to "curate" channels they do not like, along with creating concrete and equitable DMCA and privacy takedown and monetization systems, I'd have no issue paying for premium service.

Since there is not a snowballs chance in hell of that happening, I'll keep blocking. Viva la Ublock origin!

 

[JIWIL]

Totally just had a nostalgia trip there... those Junkbuster/NoScript days

 

[Athlonite]

Some channels are just really egregious about the quality and quantity of their sponsorship ads. For example, the podcast Talkville, a podcast for the show Smallville, has overlong intelligence-insulting ad reads. Sometimes the ads are edited in to cut off whoever was talking mid-sentence and the show doesn't resume on what was cut off. The ratio of ads to content is also quite bad. If you contrast this with a podcast like Trash Taste, they have short, snappy blurbs about the product that attempt to be entertaining and get you back to the podcast asap. The time spent on them in total is much lower despite their episodes having double the runtime.

I have since stopped watching that lousy Talkville podcast, but I just wanted to illustrate that why you might want to block sponsors for certain channels

I can certainly see why that would be annoying and would be a reason to leave the channel and go elsewhere when there's more ads than content it starts to look more like an ad farm for money than a content creator