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I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable

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[โ€“] UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But YouTube DOES have advertising and they have had advertising for a decade, everyone that uploads content knows this and accepts it and in many cases is able to monetize their own content. You are arguing that you are entitled to use third party software to personally avoid ads, and your only argument for it is that you've been doing it a long time.

[โ€“] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Then google should have done a better job vetting the ads so they don't have malicious redirects or malware so that users wouldn't feel the need to run adblocks to be safe.

In fact, Google as the most pervasive advertiser should probably have done that for all ads. I imagine if they weren't so terrible, ad-blocks wouldn't be so prevalent.