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Tell HN: Every now and then, turn your adblocker off
5 points by mouse_ on Feb 27, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments
It's good to occasionally get a frame of reference for how the average user has to experience the Internet.


When you're done with that, might as well cut your seat belts, rip up your condoms, and go for a smoke at the gas station. Or, knowing this crowd, maybe just open all your ports, drink some rainwater, fly in a Boeing, and sign in to Chrome. Live life to its fullest!


No thanks, I don't periodically eat Velveeta on Wonderbread either, I know what I'm missing and I'm glad it isn't in my life.


Maybe this is just me, but a) I appreciate all the free shit I get that is ad supported, and b) am competent enough to to be affected by ads.


I suppose you also like a cluttered house.

My biggest peeve with ads is that you have to search a page for the stuff you want. Much better to have a page which is all information with no extraneous crap.

Maybe if advertisers were limited to a maximum of 5% of page area, it might be acceptable. But I doubt that would ever happen. So I continue with an adblocker.


It's not as bad on desktop but wow on mobile browsing without an adblocker is a nightmare


Isn’t it kind of cringe to think these 90% or whatever totally oblivious people are why adtech companies continue to print billions of dollars?


We should be grateful for that. If more people installed adblockers, they'd invest more in the arms race and render adblockers useless for us.


I actually have adblocker off on Google because I'm curious who pays for ads :D


incognito mode fills this purpose


Why?




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