userscript: anti-adblock killer continued (updated sequel to original version)
https://xuhaiyang1234.gitlab.io/AAK-Cont/
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a few years ago on birdsite friends/acquaintances of mine in the games media used to try to shame people for using adblockers
mega eyeroll. i mean, i know it's fucking your business model to some degree, sucks, but my brain is too valuable to me to fill with even more consumerist garbage than i get by default from being a USian. not to mention the ads wasting even more of my limited lifespan
i respectfully declined to obey, in secret. because why start shit.
plz don't tell neogaf either.
a lot of of times i see a friend using their computer and they get video ads on youtube. i can only wince as they wallow in the muck. uncivilized
@alyx i kind of took it as a sign that the ad market was headed for a pretty serious crash soon (and it was)
i have run an adblocker + noscript for at least a decade now and don't see any reason to stop anytime soon, it's a security tool as far as i'm concerned
@mauve i agree, but then, i blatantly steal 95% of IP i'm interested in, so i feel i'm not a moral paragon in this particular arena
anyway, i get mad when i'm forced to be exposed to ads. i turn off the car radio or switch stations when ads start.
since i haven't watched mainstream OTA/cable TV for like 15+ years it's always shocking when i see how permeated it is with 1) ads that 2) are offensively inane / LCD-targeted
@mauve these ads are for people who are fans of big bang theory
@alyx i really can't deal with tv anymore, like, at all. find it really vapid and more than a bit transparently manipulative. so i just avoid it as much as possible.
@mauve same. thank goodness for torrents.
that said, i'd be even better off if i didn't feel the need to watch long multi-season shows, "prestige" or no, that suck up hours of my life. but that's one addiction i find hard to shake.
@alyx my japanese study kicked any interest i had in watching tv shows anymore. i decided that i was going to immerse myself in as much jp-related content as possible so that it would rub off on me, and it did work.
it also really made it hard for me to go _back_ to english stuff afterwards because i saw everything in a different light.
@mauve that's really cool. more power to ya.
i haven't studied japanese since i took a class to get back into it last... spring. geez.
it is interesting if that experience has really made you dislike a majority of western media...
@alyx Not so much dislike western media but just not be able to experience in the same way I used to.
I still watch a fair amount, but my tastes run more towards unscripted and live activities more than scripted shows and movies nowadays. (I have watched so many JP-language LPs over the years. They were good practice!)
@alyx oh i've been poking in once in awhile, trying to come out of my shell once summer loosens things up a bit. (i've always been terrible at summers.)
as far as noscript goes, i actually kind of like semi-broken things but i'm a linux user so that's a given. from my perspective it's my browser on my system and i can make it do what i want with zero moral qualms.