I posted about really being overrun by ads on Priuschat with my android phone and Mendel mentioned blockers. I just installed Firefox and Ublock (?) And it is a miracle!!-! Thank you!!!
PriusChat and other web services are supported by ad revenue. Ads can be irritating, ignore-able, or sometimes amusing (recently had a pop up in Finnish ). Users have options to block ads and thus that small slice of revenues. They should decide, and knowing enough about ad blockers facilitate decision. Their decision.
I get that Danny needs some income, but it was to the point that I was about to give up this site. It made it very difficult to navigate. And, as mentioned, would bonk me off the site altogether. More than willing to see ads, but have to have a balance between seeing and being buried.
I too get that Danny needs ad revenue, but got exasperated, by incessant pop-up ads, long-delay animated/flashing ads, ladies that are dying to meet me, etcetera. I don't mind a few ads, but it was too much.
I run 3 blockers and a VPN with Firefox in privacy mode and strict security mode. Ad-blocker ultimate Ghostery Privacy badger without issues - It may hang some banking apps if you don't place them in your exceptions list. Certain web sites use cookies for security purposes that one or more of the above apps may block. Mostly government/institutional web sites that are way behind the times. Just make sure they aren't scam site links - find the official links your self, rather than click on whatever link they give you. YMMV
I’ve had Ka-Block! For years. I’d be happy to buy Danny a beer, but the opportunity has never presented itself
My limits were: * web bloat causing page loading across my limited-speed line to slow to a crawl (WWW-wide, not just PC); * web bloat causing my household to exceed monthly data limits (WWW-wide, not just PC); * a few advertisements carrying trojan-horse malware (PC-specific). I've since changed to faster service with higher data limits, and improved security, but old habits die hard.
Those are among my reasons for web wide blockers. I had white paged sites I like and trusted to give them ad support. Priuschat was among the latter.
Calendar says I installed my first adblocker in 1997. WebFree by Steve Falkenburg. Now I use a Pi-hole. It's a local DNS server that deliberately fails to locate ads for any device on my home network. My Rokus just skip past ad breaks on all the streamers because they can't find the ad servers to play the spots. No software to install on each computer or phone, it covers them all in one fell swoop.
