• IratePirate@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    If you stay hooked to big corporate-owned services, you agree to get enshittified. With Freetube, at least I get to choose the type enshittification I’m exposed to, and get to deal a bit of damage to Google’s profits in the process. I’ll gladly take that.

      • IratePirate@feddit.org
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        5 months ago

        Thanks, I appreciate any pointers to new tech. I’ve actually come across AdNauseam in the past, and it baffled me because it seemed to solve little to none of the problems with ads. It…

        1. still uses up my bandwidth because it loads all ads.
        2. still exposes me to malvertising campaigns (the ads aren’t sandboxed, after all, but all ad-related scripting is executed on my machine).
        3. will still provide anyone rolling out ads with revenue (because ad clicked = money for them)
        4. may still be used to profile me - after all, no idiot clicks on all the ads, which makes AdNauseam users stick out like a sore thumb.

        The way I see it, blocking ads is the only way to obscure (not obfuscate) your true interests, improve security and starve any advertiser of revenue, thus disincentivising advertising by attacking its economic foundation.

        I’m happy to be corrected on any of the above points; I just can’t see what advantages AdNauseam is supposed to have over conventional adblocking.