How ads are chewing through half of your mobile data

muelltonne@feddit.org · 5 months ago

RandomVideos@programming.dev · 5 months ago

I wonder how many lemmy users dont use adblock

Tja@programming.dev · 5 months ago

There’s dozens of us!

RandomVideos@programming.dev · 5 months ago

Why do people not use adblock?

Obi@sopuli.xyz · 5 months ago

Because they use ublock.

RandomVideos@programming.dev · 5 months ago

But adblock has 4.5 stars on the chrome web store

Ublock has only 3.6 stars

I will ignore the reviews on the Firefox version because Google is much better at keeping users data secure than Mozilla

Tja@programming.dev · 5 months ago

Because I want the people running the website to earn some money with my visit.

RandomVideos@programming.dev · 5 months ago

But couldnt you just use an allowlist?

Tja@programming.dev · 5 months ago

I could do many things, but I don’t because:

that would require effort
if I use a service I pay for it as the provider requests, or I don’t use it at all. I also donate to the Wikipedia and contribute to open source.