I literally haven’t seen anyone even mention it anywhere on the internet as if it never existed, when it comes to Ad blockers I always see uBO recommended with absolutely no mention whatsoever of ABP why? What makes it better than ABP? What happened to it? or maybe I’m wrong and ABP is not as well known as I think it is.

I have been using ABP for many years until someday don’t remember when I switched to uBO because I read that it is “the best ad blocker”.

I maybe need a history lesson as everything on the matter seems so vague to me and the whole situation is super weird

  • Doug [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Right. How do you cut the ads out? Do you just snip around blindly and hope for the best?

    that’s what paywalls or logins are for

    And how do you react to those when you encounter them? More often than not the people I see blocking everything flip out.

    • BitSound@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      The analogy would be that I get a robot to identify the ads in the magazine and cut them out before I have to see them. That’s what ad blockers do, but on a computer instead of IRL.

      I don’t know why I’d flip out when encountering a paywall or login. It works out great, and as a society we don’t have to end up with ads enshittifying everything they touch.