I honestly think mobile ads in free games and other apps are some of the lowest quality piles of garbage I’ve ever had the misfortune to see, and they are constant. How did we get to this point? Where they are so horribly unbearable and yet so commonplace?
The modern day mobile ad slop was the breaking point for me with ads, adblock is required now for viewing any website with ads.
I have a pihole.
Every time I go out onto LTE I experience the shittery that the rest of the world lives with every day. It is brutal. I have no idea how people do it.
It’s funny, even sync for lemmy I never use it outside because it also has huge shitty ads. But on my network all is nice and clean!
Investigate tailscale, run your phone’s internet thru your pihole when you’re out and about, or set your phone’s dns to dns.adguard-dns.com. No-one should have to live with that crap.
Will check it out, thanks!
It’s 2024. How do you not have ad blockers everywhere?
It’s 2024 and you still don’t understand how advertising in mobile games works? Wow.
You mean you don’t want to play a match 3 game that will make you cum in 30 seconds, guaranteed.
Haven’t seen an ad in ages :)
By continuing to use the same services that keep pumping ads into your face. How else?
Android - Blockada.
Subscription instead of one time payment is a massive “fuck off” from me
Try AdGuard DNS, it’s free and only takes a few minutes to set up, no account needed - you just modify your phone’s DNS settings (there’s also an app instead). Sometimes it doesn’t block everything, like any DNS blocker including Blockada, but gets most things.
And they even have DNS profiles for most devices. I’ve been running some form of AdGuard for nearly a decade. On the rare occasion I do see an ad, it’s quite surprising.
I’ve only ever used the free version. V5
Alternatively if you have a raspberry pi, pi hole. Also blocks all mobile ads and does it network wide.
I’d love to, I have a pi 3 lying about.
Unfortunately it will also block the free TV streaming box we have and Mrs won’t be able to watch Poirot and I’ll get murdered myself
You can set up a regular dns on that device, or you can white list the domains that the stealing box uses. Join the revolution, it’s actually quite nice!
Would that it were that simple! It’s an Orange TV streaming box, notorious for fucking up with PiHole :)
I’ll show you how we got here. Ready for this.
We should make the internet as toxic and hostile to anyone using ads as possible because soon as people make money online through ad revenue it will grow so large we can never stop it again among other problems like looking away content and enshitification. Digitally copy and pirate all things that make money through ads. Make them pay for stealing your time and making everything worse. Every time we see an ad, make 5 posts or comments about how that product or service or thing gave you cancer or stared a fire or is haunted. Chase the bankers out of the temple with a whip.
And then people will say “but what about the content creators they need to get paid”
You can’t have both. You cannot have people earning money online through ads and an internet where ads don’t become the sole driver of all things online.
