That's why no one with half a brain downloads the official Reddit app.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It's as bad as they say.
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Seriously, why the fuck has advertising become so incredibly insidious and pervasive in recent years? I can't go anywhere on the internet and not see ads or a warning to turn off my ad blocker or message telling me to subscribe to view the content. Worse, I can't even be out in public in the city without having another fucking ad shoved in my face. I was recently walking downtown at 1 am or so waiting on an uber and really enjoying the cool night air, not on my phone or anything, just enjoying the moment, and I saw an insanely bright billboard advertising something.
I feel like ads are just starting to really wear on me. I'm sick of consuming and being told to consume and being manipulated in the death throes of capitalism.
Edit:spelling
Once you get used to an ad-free Reddit experience, it's truly jarring how many ads the official Reddit app has. Same with Youtube. I have Adblock for Youtube on my computer and when I use the Youtube app on my TV I'm astounded by the number of ads being greedily shoved down my face.
I really can't do ads. I use Blokada on my android phone and that killed all the ads from reddit regardless of which app I used, but the actual reddit app was just terrible in and of itself. There were so many better choices.
I don't think this is something new... Lots of webpages had tons of ads in the 90s and 2000's.
Yahoo 2002: Yahoo 2002
Or this one from the wall street journal in 2000: WSJ 2000
Compare those to today: Yahoo Today
I don't think it's any worse today really.
It is worse, though. No Yahoo games 😭 I played that flash pool game to death.
Website subscriptions and all types of subscriptions and paywalls are just death by a thousand cuts as well. It's all ads and paywalls now.
Its awful on Reddit too, they let anyone and everyone run ads. the "he gets us" ads have like 600 paid reddit awards too.
I was using Reddit mobile to follow some interests that don't have any communities on Lemmy yet and noticed the obscene number of awards on that ad. How in the world did that happen?
I'm really enjoying seeing the Lemmy communities I follow grow noticeably in just the past few days and hope people stick with it.
If only more people used ad blockers. Browsers should download with ad blocker extensions automatically installed imo
Meanwhile my phone literally has ads in its system video player and file explorer
Sounds awful. I am pretty sick of just not being able to spend a single moment without being advertised to.
yeah it sucks like imagine going to the file explorer to see a document and you get some ads like that's next level bs lmao
Wtf?? What phone is that so I can avoid it
any redmi it seems