Ad blocker performance comparison
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I installed uBlock this morning and it has been working fairly well. One thing it is blocking that I would prefer not is google-analytics.com. Tried to white list that but failing.
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It's unfortunate that websites can't do their own hosting for Ads and pull their own stats - but I understand why they can't.
But really that whole situation is broken. The website gets to make our side show ads with no ill effect on them, but destroy our bandwidth for something we didn't ask for.
I do wonder how this situation can be resolved - I don't mind small, non persistent, non tracking ads - I want the websites I visit to earn enough to stay open and providing the content I want to imbibe. But at what cost to me personally? The huge cellphone data bill, the unusable websites, the click bait, slide shows (those are about the worst!)
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I'd like an opt in service for ads. Rather than tracking me around the web, I tell you things I want to see ads for, like video games. Or I temporarily turn on ads for fridges if I'm shopping for a new fridge. That way I get to choose what I want to see.
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Apparently Google has something like this already - you can pay Google, something like $5 a month, and they will significantly reduce the number of ads you get and often times no ads at all, and the website you visit that use google ads gets some of the money you pay.
It's called Google Contributor https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
It's hard to wrap your head around paying to surf the web - it would almost be easier if ISP's could opt in to something like this, just make it a fee on the bill and the funds would be passed along to those sides that participate.
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@Dashrender said:
Apparently Google has something like this already - you can pay Google, something like $5 a month, and they will significantly reduce the number of ads you get and often times no ads at all, and the website you visit that use google ads gets some of the money you pay.
It's called Google Contributor https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
It's hard to wrap your head around paying to surf the web - it would almost be easier if ISP's could opt in to something like this, just make it a fee on the bill and the funds would be passed along to those sides that participate.
Huh, an interesting concept for sure. Still, I'd like to be able to get quality ads of the kinds I like. Given a choice between this service and an ad-blocker, I'll choose the ad-blocker.
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The bad thing is with Ad blocking you're not helping the companies (websites) you do like make sure they stay in business.
I agree, all these solutions kinda suck.
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@Dashrender said:
The bad thing is with Ad blocking you're not helping the companies (websites) you do like make sure they stay in business.
Or.... you are encouraging them to make better ads that don't act like generic ads. ML is looking into how to do this effectively as we need to have ads to pay the bills but don't want something like other sites have with terrible ads, moving ads, click bait, etc.
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The Twit network curates their own ads - Of course their model is different, there main way of advertising is spoken ads during the podcasts... not something we can do here.
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@Dashrender said:
The Twit network curates their own ads - Of course their model is different, there main way of advertising is spoken ads during the podcasts... not something we can do here.
We could do something similar....
This post is Sponsored By Lipton Ice Tea
...here either with text or full ads
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
The Twit network curates their own ads - Of course their model is different, there main way of advertising is spoken ads during the podcasts... not something we can do here.
We could do something similar....
This post is Sponsored By Lipton Ice Tea
...here either with text or full ads
You could easily to sidebar ads. But most of those are highly intrusive.
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Or we could have graphics in the middle...
off the things that we are typing.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Or we could have graphics in the middle...
off the things that we are typing.
TIL that @scottalanmiller really likes Lipton Iced Tea.
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For the love of god.. please don't do inline ads! fraking hate that about FB.
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The sidebar ads aren't too bad. I like the way they are done in the Spiceworks community. They don't seem too intrusive to me, and some of them I have actually clicked (gasp!)!
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I hate ads but I understand their purpose.
Don't put them in between posts.We have empty space on the left and right for something small in size and dynamically scalable.
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I've replaced Adblock Plus with uBlock and so far so good.
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@sksharma said in Ad blocker performance comparison:
@nic You must try ublock and I would suggest you to try adblock plus. I recently readed that adblock plus is best adblocker. You can learn more about adblock plus vs adblock to understand its features.
I've not had good luck with either. But the Pi Hole worked great for me.
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@scottalanmiller said in Ad blocker performance comparison:
@sksharma said in Ad blocker performance comparison:
@nic You must try ublock and I would suggest you to try adblock plus. I recently readed that adblock plus is best adblocker. You can learn more about adblock plus vs adblock to understand its features.
I've not had good luck with either. But the Pi Hole worked great for me.
I use ublock origins and Pi Hole. When I'm off network with a phone or tablet without the Pi Hole, I just don't feel right anymore. Gonna have to set it up on my lab box and change all the things DNS to use it.
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@travisdh1 said in Ad blocker performance comparison:
@scottalanmiller said in Ad blocker performance comparison:
@sksharma said in Ad blocker performance comparison:
@nic You must try ublock and I would suggest you to try adblock plus. I recently readed that adblock plus is best adblocker. You can learn more about adblock plus vs adblock to understand its features.
I've not had good luck with either. But the Pi Hole worked great for me.
I use ublock origins and Pi Hole. When I'm off network with a phone or tablet without the Pi Hole, I just don't feel right anymore. Gonna have to set it up on my lab box and change all the things DNS to use it.
So many things work better when Pi Hole is in use.
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@sksharma said in Ad blocker performance comparison:
@nic You must try ublock and I would suggest you to try adblock plus. I recently readed that adblock plus is best adblocker. You can learn more about adblock plus vs adblock to understand its features.
Not only is this a spam post, it's a demonstrably incorrect statement. AdBlock Plus takes money from advertisers (like @sksharma clearly does) to mark their ads as "acceptable". uBlock doesn't take money from advertisers, works better and faster, and also doesn't join tech forums to try and drive traffic to their website.
