Mobile ads suck so bad. How did we get here?
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.
It’s 2024. How do you not have ad blockers everywhere?
You mean you don't want to play a match 3 game that will make you cum in 30 seconds, guaranteed.
Websites too, journalism pages in particular have become just ridiculous.
A nearly full screen ad after every 1-3 (short) paragraphs is just bullshit.
There's simply no "free" stuff out there, unless it's specifically released as free/open source.
If you're on Android, AdAware and Lucky Patcher are quite effective in filtering/killing most ads though.
is lucky patcher still alive?
Yep, working nicely and receiving regular updates. Many apps can't be patched to bypass the payment anymore since they authenticate via Google servers, but at least you can patch out the ad server paths. Haven't had any total failure yet.
There's also DNS based ad blocking for any device that lets you adjust the internet settings.
Yup! Droidify (f-droid) first, and Google Play only if it's a corporate app, or I'm really desperate.
I'd say 80% of my regularly used apps are FOSS.
Haven't seen an ad in ages :)
@Philharmonic3 A lot of mobile game ads sought to become weird slop because it would get people talking. I remember years ago when everyone was joking about a game called Mafia City, where the ad would show a L1 Goon beating up people on the street to become a L100 Boss. Now every mobile game ad wants to be the next big meme, or at least an appearance on those Vinesauce segments
By continuing to use the same services that keep pumping ads into your face. How else?
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.
Android - Blockada.