🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Mar 13

I love my ad-blockers 🥰

Proton¹ VPN blocks most of the ads I get served, and the ones that get through are caught by AdNauseam² (which silently clicks ads in the background, costing marketing $ and poisoning metrics).

I've wasted $800+ of marketing budget³ in the last few months—for ads I never saw.

Fuck you in particular, Amazon.

Edit:

Reply-guy credentials: I've been the CDO and head of business analytics at several tech companies, and I have at least some idea how my job works.

¹ Yes, Proton has some serious issues, but I still think it works better than most other solutions when you factor in the ease of setup & operation across multiple products.

² Ad Nauseam uses uBlock Origin.

³ It wastes the company's marketing budget (high- click-through, zero sales), which lowers how much advertising platforms can charge for their services, which hurts those platforms too in the long run.

★ If your reply boils down to "it's useless to do anything, because ____", then 🤷🏼‍♀️ I don't know what to fucking tell ya; roll over.

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@alice I just wanted to say I hate that you have to deal with so many reply-guys on posts like this. It sucks that people on Fedi can be such assholes. I appreciate that you’re willing to deal with that for the sake of getting information out there!

I have been using a combination of NextDNS filtering traffic on all of my devices and then uBlock on my browser. I’m intrigued by Ad Nauseam, I might want to give it a try sometime. Especially since it uses uBlock, it seems like it would be a drop in replacement.
Mar 15 at 6:58pmWeb