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I am going to ask a stupid question here, in no stupid questions. I have never used an ad blocker. I've been on the internet since before the world wide web was invented. What, exactly, is the purpose of ad blockers?
It does what the name suggests: it blocks ads on web pages leaving you with a lot cleaner interface. On some pages the change is purely cosmetic but others like YouTube are completely unusable without one. Why don't just give it a shot and see by yourself. Look for the uBlock Origin extension for your browser and see how you like it. You can easily toggle it on and off and see how different sites look. It takes literally 30 seconds to install.
Thanks, Thorny Insight. I've never felt the need to install an ad blocker, but perhaps I should, just to see the internet the way everyone else does these days.
Definitely do! uBlock Origin is the best one around, and it's completely free. Even without configuring anything the defaults block 99% of annoying ads.
I don't think I've ever seen ads with ublock on Firefox. Just the reminders that I am using an ad block and whether I could turn it off, pretty please?
Thanks for taking the time to help a fellow user!
Great explaination and straight to the point!
Lucky you! Just install one right now and experience a less annoying, faster loading web for the first time! Also install consent-o-matic while you're at it.
Do you ever visit a website and feel like you have to put on a condom or else you get something nasty?
An ad blocker, that's the condom.
Are you a bot, or a troll? Or just not understand English? Because it's in the name.
Regrettably I am neither.
Hope this helps!
My original question was badly framed. I know what ad blockers are. I just don't know why people use them.
Because ads are annoying as fuck, slow down websites and collect all kinds of data from your browser to analyze your web browsing behavior and then sell that information to the highest bidder
So you somehow have never noticed how miserable ads make life/the Internet? Even if you ignore all the privacy and overconsumption concerns, you still have the fact that ads slow down websites tremendously, and often literally obscure content from view. Somehow you've used the Internet for decades and that's all lost on you. Trolldar is going off hard.
The web is literally unusable without ad blockers. Your question is like asking "why should I stop bashing my face into the wall?"
You should hope to never see an ad in your whole life. Obviously that's impossible, but efforts should be taken to get there
load ublock origin, then reload any website that had a lot of ads on it. huge difference