Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by vbezhenar on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:15AM
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Ad blocking is supposed to improve performance. If you still need to download ad and then perform additional computations, I, personally, would opt-out from that ad-blocking, it's not hard to ignore ad myself.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by Freak_NL on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:21AM
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> it's not hard to ignore ad myself.
It's a constant cognitive drain on your mental resources. That's even ignoring the fact that almost everyone is influenced by ads to varying degrees.
Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by Semaphor on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:55AM
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I’d say it’s not a drain, but even as a long-time ad-blocker, I still am conditioned to ignore things screaming for attention. It’s been very often that I’m looking for something (eg. a link) but I don’t see it because it’s more visible than the rest of the page and my brain is conditioned to filter that out.
Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by dwild on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:41PM
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> It's a constant cognitive drain on your mental resources.
We reached the point that this is the argument to avoid ads... People will go to such a length to justify blocking ads, it's crazy.
Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by qu4z-2 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @08:15PM
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That's always been my primary reason, honestly.
Yes, I also take the Intel Inside stickers off my laptop.
Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking
by soraminazuki on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:53PM
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You can ignore ads, but you can't stop these companies from spying against users, which is a much bigger problem.