• Amir @lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I use uBlock Origin in Firefox, with all the boxes ticked. It’s not only adds it blocks also plentiful of trackers. Just to make my visits on today’s web usable. As a result, my laptops / smartphone resources are saved up, more battery time or cooler device as example.

    Personally I like ads, totally ok for it - if informative, sharing some kind of relevant value with greater good. Companies should let the product or service itself advertise, not throw these on people constantly.

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      1 year ago

      This is why I whitelist duckduckgo in firefox in my ublock extension. I will gladly look at the relevant ads at the top of the list, knowing they are just that. I glance at them, most of the time it’s a sales pitch, I go “not interested” and just move down the page to the results. 100% fine with that.

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          1 year ago

          I’m working on a home project, so when I search on ddg for “how to build raised garden boxes” I get some “shopping” links with the word “ads” right next to it clearly visible, which I instantly skip over, then two text results labeled clearly as “ads” then the actual results. One text result is a sales pitch for a premade garden box and the other is a link to a video instruction (which I’m assuming will also have a sales pitch) so I can easily skip over those two links and now I’m at the results. No video or sound at all and it’s all labeled as such for me. I’m using a default “dark” theme under the appearance settings.

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        1 year ago

        Personally I’m starting to try just paying for search with neeva and kagi. Not sure it’s worth what kagi wants, but neeva is inside my yearly threshold.