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Me but ublock origin (literature.cafe)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Me but Vivaldi and Adnauseam.io.

Ads are a dystopian nightmare but for some reason nobody seems to care

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Consider switching to something Firefox based cause Adnauseam will break when google kills of manifest v2 in a month or something

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Adnauseam will break ~~when google kills of manifest v2 in a month or something~~

In June 2025, as of now. (Vivaldi only, other Browsers may differ, change to FireWaterLibreWolfFox regardless.)

https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-future-proofed-with-its-built-in-functionality/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm holding out for that dude who built a new browser from the ground up and made it fully open source. It's called Ladybird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

FYI it's not gonna run on Windows. But you probably already know that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah by the time Win10 is deprecated I am hoping Linux is more suited towards my needs anyway. There's little sense in going open source and staying with Windows. It's well past its prime.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably because unlike paying for the service, we don't feel how it takes our money from us.

A psychological trick that works so great that it made a lot of services exist in the first place like the whole of YouTube. And now we're kinda addicted to those too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Exactly. I hate when things say FREE!* (*With Ads), because you ARE paying for it. With your PRECIOUS TIME

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

With your PRECIOUS TIME

That's the least of it! What's worse is that you're paying with your MENTAL HEALTH, because by their nature, ads are designed to make you feel like something is wrong with your life (and that buying the product can fix it).

https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy

https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/adding-to-the-problem-advertising-and-mental-health/

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/advertisings-toxic-effect-on-eating-and-body-image/

https://adfreecities.org.uk/what-we-do/advertising-mental-health/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you! I was always morally opposed to ads. Glad to have another great reason to shun them

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

My time is basically worthless when I'm watching YouTube