They sold out to 'the man' and shows "acceptable" ads now - meaning ones where they've been paid off.
Do you know how NextDNS compares to OpenDNS? I've used the latter before.
Nope. I'm happy to contribute in my small way to the demise of the ad economy, especially with the 7th-commandment violations I come across on an almost daily basis. My devices know that I'm a near-middle-aged male, but apparently don't know that I'm married, have children, and subscribe rather strictly to the Westminster Standards. You'd think just based on my posting history here that I'd at least be getting ads for PuritanMingle.com or DutchReformedMingle.com or MicroDenominationMingle.com.
Nope.
I hate those embedded displays. However, I get a good kick out of switching languages and turning up the volume to max before I leave. It actually makes the videos more tolerable when you can't understand what they're rambling on about.
I agree, especially with sites whose only revenue for its creators are based on the ad content. If you do not want deal with ads, fork over the money for the no-ad experience many of these sites have. Otherwise, that is how the content creators are getting paid.
As I said above, I will gladly and wilfully contribute to the demise of the ad economy. I want the content creators to see the return on their ad-based investments go away. I'm more than happy to be one of the thousand cuts to that whole wicked ecosystem. If it's replaced by a paid-subscription ecosystem, I am great with that and I'm happy to hasten the process by blocking ads.
But knowing that you 1. Are not required to use these sites, and 2. That the content creators on these sites are getting paid by the ads that are in the service you voluntarily use, how do you not think that this is a form of theft? If the sites themselves wanted ads disabled, like Youtube who offers an ad-free experience for a fee, and I think Facebook as well, wouldnt they create their platform like that?
I'm not required to use the sites, and I'm not forbidden by any law to use ad-blockers on them. It is within my right to refuse to buy into the ad ecosystem, with all the invasions of privacy that it entails. Google may not want me to do this, but Google's wishes are not law and I am not bound by them. It is also within the right of the content creator to withdraw from the ad ecosystem altogether and to go exclusively to a subscription model. You will not hear me complain if and when that happens and you can hold me to that. In the meantime, I have absolutely no qualms about consuming content without the barrage of what is at worst soft-core pr0n and explicit enticement to adultery and at best godless materialism. When the US government or the government of my state forbids ad blockers, DNS sinkholes, parental control routers, and privacy browsers, then I will adjust my behavior accordingly and not before.
I stand corrected. After looking it up, there is no law against ad-blockers. So you are most certainly within your rights.
I just checked this out as an extension for Chrome, which gives the warning:
That means I might have to switch browsers too. Which browser do you use?
You raise a good point that my wife and I were talking about just the other day, which is that all of this discussion, valid as it is, only applies within our home. A big part of the reason that we're thinking about this is so that we can monitor and guide device usage once our children come of age. But we have already started talking with our oldest daughter about the dangers of technology and how to handle certain situations outside the home - and we're also going through (as time permits) confessional teaching on the 10 commandments. Our hope and prayer is that when she comes of age she will have tools to recognize and discern when she's out of range of our ad-blockers and our watchful eyes.
Firefox. I try to avoid chrome because Google sells everything (data) you do.
It's way better. OpenDNS provides for category filtering but I've really appreciated NextDNS features and the ability to set it up easily on all devices.
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Hi Rich,
Oh, I hate these gas station TVs at the pumps so very much. First time I came across one, I about jumped out of my skin, it was so loud. I avoid all gas stations with them, if possible. If I have to stop for gas at one, I'll only put a little gas in the car, just enough to get me where I am going for the day.
Raspberry Pi's are a lot of fun to put together and set up.
That's what I've heard, but I'm pretty green at most tech-related matters, so I need to do a bit of reading and thinking before I make the splurge.
I got one to play with when I was retired. I did get it set up and working but never did anything productive with it before going back to work. Good result, however, I had a spare monitor, keyboard, and mouse when I had to start working from home on short notice.
