Karen Hill
Aurynn ShawHalf of web users are running ad blockers.
With your support and help, we can get that number higher.
PierrePaul@aurynn we should buy ads to promote ad blockers
@pierrepaul I see no issue with this whatsoever
@aurynn Aside from the fact we are sending money to ad companies, this is a good plan
@pierrepaul Using their own tools of oppression against them is a decent strategy though
Trent@aurynn @pierrepaul What if we setup our own ad network, then buy our own ads to advertise ad blockers and contribute the profits to ad blocker development. I see no downside.
tech? no! man, see...@pierrepaul @aurynn like a decade ago google emailed me giving me a coupon for adwords; if only I had thought of this at that time
Grant@pierrepaul it wouldn't be a constant flow though
robin@pierrepaul
Pretty sure I've seen this happen.
"Find this ad annoying? ...." It writes itself
@aurynn
Alan@aurynn legit the first thing I did when setting up firefox for me ma was install uBlock and HTTPS Everywhere
Mx. Alba 
@aurynn running a pihole at home and loving it!
AGF : poemproducer@aurynn me my fav is: libredirect and bandcamp volume fader
@aurynn Actually surprisingly low. I don't know anyone who is not using an adblocker.
paramilitary organizer@aurynn get me a working adblocker on android and I will do my part to contribute!!!
@t54r4n1 I think if you use Firefox on Android then you can install an adblocker into that?
Otherwise ... might be one on the F-Droid marketplace/
Toy Dragon
atomicwrites
Julian Knight
Cory Dransfeldt@aurynn Run two! I've got nextDNS configured on all my devices and 1Blocker in the browser.
was B (this is my old account)@aurynn actually tho, I think when folks are home for the holidays doing the inevitable tech support for loved ones, that’s a great time to install ad blockers for them and explain how they can “skip the ads on the internet” to make their pages download faster etc
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differentlyRunning the Ad blockers is just a requirement to help fend off #malware attacks FROM Ad servers anyways.
Every bit helps... Make the internet safer from #Malvertisements 🚧☣️🚫👎⛔
Rodney Rutherford@aurynn Lacking ads, what's your proposal to financially support content creators?
@aurynn UBI meaning Universal Basic Income? Does that mean you're willing to pause the pursuit of ad blockers until UBI is in place? Or prefer to just watch the (content creator) world burn until that happens?
@Yendor No, I'm going to keep pushing ad blockers. Ads are a major malware vector, both for computers and for human cognition.
If you want to protect creators, go push your representatives to implement UBI, and get out of my mentions.
Beechsundower@Yendor @aurynn Go to your competitor that don’t support ads is my answer. You may not like this answer but I have found NOTHING worthy to watch an ad for someone’s income.
I would propose go back to old school apple business practice. Pay once and you own it forever. It’s a choice for app developer to go into the business. To get an ad free product is my choice. If a product has ads, I go elsewhere. I need an epi pen when I encounter ads.
peter purgathofer@aurynn supposedly, this is the largest global boycott movement of all times!
sergio_101 has moved!
Anarchic Teapot@aurynn It's a shame they don't differentiate between big commercial sites making money out of hate and reselling data illegally, and small private sites that could do with a little cash to help with running costs. Donations aren't a good revenue model.
@anarchic_teapot Ad networks, unfortunately, also serve a lot of malware. Differentiating would put users at risk regardless.
@aurynn Hence the need for a trusted ad server who vets the ads.
And, of course, AV software.
And, of course, AV software.
R0B0 G0D@anarchic_teapot @aurynn
After 47 years I really am done with advertising. I'd far rather pay a subscription than see any advertising.
I wasn't born on Earth to spend my life being begged to buy things I don't need or want.
Adblocking is as essential to me as raincoats are for dealing with rain.
"You people"?
Never a great way to start a conversation. Neither is disparaging my thought processes.
Perhaps you'd care to edit/delete those personal remarks? This isn't Twitter, and I'd hate to ruin the lovely vibe here with further unpleasantness.
nso
Darren Hobbs 
@aurynn uBlock Origin, ftw!
Central Intelligence Agency 
@aurynn NOOOOO! How will be deliver military grade malvertising, disinformation, and psychological warfare to keep our military industrial complex master's in power! 
Jon Gilbert@aurynn this has big "home taping is killing profits" energy and I am one-hundred percent here for it
DreazyBK@aurynn I went so long without one, but it was that tweet circulating showing 10-12 unskippable ads on YouTube that made me get it together.
We need more Android users running revanced too!
@DreazyBK it's super gross, isn't it? *super* gross.
Helping people get adblockers is the best thing we can do, I think.
George Dinwiddie@aurynn I don’t block ads, per se. I block random code from running on my computer. If they served ads from the server, they wouldn’t be blocked.
ForeverAndaDay@aurynn big blow when manifest v2 dies for chromium :(
auditor_3d 
@aurynn open your pi-hole!
dew@aurynn I recommend ublock origin and firefox to as many people as I can.
Voline@aurynn
As I said when I saw my first internet ad in 1993. "This'll never last."
As I said when I saw my first internet ad in 1993. "This'll never last."
Mike Bifulco@aurynn you know, I agree, and I also feel conflicted about this. It’s strange to think that to a large extent, the pressure of keeping advertisers happy is what kept twitter from spiraling into this mess for so long.
If you’ll pardon the US-flavored metaphor, maybe ad revenue is an import part of the checks and balances we need to keep a functional social internet? I really don’t know.
FWIW my ad blocker isn’t going anywhere, too, so… yeah. Such a strange time.
@irreverentmike One of the things that's really, *really* annoyed me about the way ads have infected being online is that it forces the rest of the world to be under the US's extremely puritan culture outlook, in a way that's been suppressing LGBT voices for a long time.
If ending ads ends that, I'd be much happier.
@aurynn here’s to that. Launch them into the sun if it moves us forward.
Appreciate the kind reply!
Griff Ferrell@aurynn One of us
Luna, Maleńkie Łapki 🌸@aurynn retoot to kill ads faster
anorax
@l_inadapte a world with ads. We should try to help them.
@aurynn
We have to try. They got stuck in 2006!
We have to try. They got stuck in 2006!
Nicd 
@aurynn As a site owner, if a site uses privacy respecting ads (sadly I only know of EthicalAds.io), and you like and use that site, turn off your adblock for that site. Or get a paid subscription to the site if possible.
Something needs to pay for the server, but it doesn't need to be Google ads.
Baph@aurynn That's about 50% short of the needed number.
@Ya_Girl_Baphomet and with your help we can improve matters
Raph J 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸 #HelloQuitteX@aurynn
It's tricky to setup on mobile. I am personnaly using Bromite + AdBlock. Sadly firefox is too slow on android
It's tricky to setup on mobile. I am personnaly using Bromite + AdBlock. Sadly firefox is too slow on android
Parko@aurynn the problem is that for many site owners ads are the only source of revenue. I own and run an AVOD (advertising video on demand) site in the UK without ads it would just be a money pit for us. Content needs to be paid for somehow. If it’s not subscription (SVOD, think Netflix), transactional (TVOD, think Prime paying for a movie) then it has to be ads. We are careful how many we run and we only get aroun £14 per thousand views!
Myles Stevens@aurynn at what point does your ad for ad blockers get blocked?