Who doesn't use an adblocker and why?
Wondering how much of the Lemmy user base wouldn't use an adblocker. If you do use one what other blocking do you use to circumvent data collection, YouTube and reddit front ends and things alike?
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I asked a friend of mine about this recently and she told me it was because it helps her kids learn patience.
That got me thinking about it, I personally learned a rather large amount of patience because of ads when I was growing up so it made a lot of sense to me.
Ads growing up didn’t track you all over the internet.
Ads teach people patience? That is the worst justification for ads I've ever heard. She's probably in the advertisement industry so she's pro-ads.
or she's not computer literate enough to install ad blockers and too proud to admit her lack of computer literacy.
Holy shit, this is worse than reddit lately. You read an anecdote about a lady, made up her whole life and got angry about what you just made up. Fucking hell.
And as the coup de grâce, their name is LemmyKnowsBest.
Not her whole life, just the argument she was using.
No, they have a point. In hindsight, I definitely can see how the unskipable ads of cable TV resulted in a greater deal of patience. I'd be interested to see a more academic study of it, but anecdotally I definitely can see it.
As long as she doesn't buy anything they ask for that is coming from ads and tells them that the products advertised are probably the worst of their kind I would be okay with it.