>How many people here see any ads? And if you watch someone without adblock or money to spend on ad-free versions of stuff, they just ignore them entirely because their attention span has already been destroyed.
All the time on mobile. In instagram every third post is an ad. I have actually purchased some stuff on there as well. (Turns out what I bought was just drop-shipped garbage so I am less inclined to purchase in the future but the ad was compelling enough for me to pay).
Ad-free experience is the best. Desktop browsing is wonderful. (although even though I use uBlock Origin, my search terms somehow result in tailored ads on instagram anyway)
I work with Gen-Z developers. They don't even use a desktop at home, only mobile. Therefore, unless they are doing some sort of convoluted setup with things like AdGuard, they are experiencing the full ad ecosystem in their daily computing usage.
I have adguard on mobile but this stuff does not seem to work on Instagram and other apps.
My dream setup are custom mobile apps that are open source wrappers around popular apps with all the ads, tracking stripped out. After all, most apps are just some simple text/graphics that pull data from some hardcoded endpoint. Most of the binary is external libs that you don't really need such as analytics/tracking/QA)
Unfortunately this dream is a major ask that will probably not happen.
In my experience it is hit or miss. Seems to crash apps that use Certificate pinning for some reason. Its a pain to have to go back and forth to disable and re-enable it depending on the app you use, hence my dream setup that I talked about.
All the time on mobile. In instagram every third post is an ad. I have actually purchased some stuff on there as well. (Turns out what I bought was just drop-shipped garbage so I am less inclined to purchase in the future but the ad was compelling enough for me to pay).
Ad-free experience is the best. Desktop browsing is wonderful. (although even though I use uBlock Origin, my search terms somehow result in tailored ads on instagram anyway)
I work with Gen-Z developers. They don't even use a desktop at home, only mobile. Therefore, unless they are doing some sort of convoluted setup with things like AdGuard, they are experiencing the full ad ecosystem in their daily computing usage.
I have adguard on mobile but this stuff does not seem to work on Instagram and other apps.
My dream setup are custom mobile apps that are open source wrappers around popular apps with all the ads, tracking stripped out. After all, most apps are just some simple text/graphics that pull data from some hardcoded endpoint. Most of the binary is external libs that you don't really need such as analytics/tracking/QA)
Unfortunately this dream is a major ask that will probably not happen.