Renuvian
2023
65
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What the hell has happened? It's like Imgur just opened the floodgates and now there are ads everywhere. Got ads in the posts. Got ads every 2 posts. JFC I have never seen so many damned ads on this platform.
Edit: The huge amount of ads are on the app. I do use ad blockers when I browse on my PC at home. The app is ad city.
Sulexar
Services cost money. Piss off, leech.
ballsoutflyer
Ad blocking is our defense against the ever-increasing enshittification.
KingofRogues
no ads on pc
andthenthat
It's not about the quantity, it is about quality. And the quality of ads is bad.
Cronos51101
For Android... Vivaldi Browser with ad and tracker blocking enabled. Access imgur via desktop mode. 140 comment limit, but no ads...
spontaneous9
Demand a refund.
quade
lol adblocker is a thing
userfriendly19777
Hack #1 Get adblocker. Hack #2. Move to Europe where the ads are very absent, yet.
dudehiemer
Androids can install Firefox, DuckDuckGo and Ublock Origin.
ErithEndell
Everyone wants to make money.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
Shut your pi-hole! I don't see any ads!
pdarkfred
NoScript says what?
taez555
Renuvian
I should have specified that this is on the Imgur app.
HimTheFarter
Use firefox with ublock instead on mobile. Why use an "app"?
PatrickMcChunky
It's conditioning so you'll pay for imgur premium.
taez555
...or just contribute enough to the community, and they give it to you for free.
ballsoutflyer
Hopefully they'll have a good competitor to Imgur soon and we can use that instead.
imsurroundedbyassholes
They took mine away this year. I had it for like 6-7 years.
taez555
My understanding is they issued it for free once upon a time to a lot of people who didn't meet the general criteria, and retracted them this year. It's still free if you hit 100,000pts.
woozle
you guys see ads?
SheepySleepySmuggler
Earn 100k up votes and you get the ad free experience. Plus the warm fuzzy feeling from having so many up votes...
spontaneous9
Fun fact: It's 110K now. That's what it took, for me anyway.
DontSayRepeat
I haven't seen ads for years. Also good to see you Woozle
DOcelot1
Get 100k upvotes, and they magically dissappear. It took 4 weeks of hard-core shit posting to get there after my permaban.
spontaneous9
Newsflash: they recently bumped it to 110K (just to fuck with me, I suppose).
DOcelot1
I hot it a couple of weeks ago. Not at 110K yet, but still no ads
spontaneous9
Interesting. The day I passed 110, they awarded it. People had told me that's where they set it, and they were right.
Maybe they put it back to 100 or dropped it to 105 of something.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Adblock. Seriously, it's necessary self-defense these days.
deathsausage
How do they make things without ad money..... you know like this free app?
deathsausage
Hey acher... how weak you must be to block someone over this. Do better my dude...
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
If they want money from ads, they should stop serving toxic ads so we wouldn't have to defend themselves. That said, I have Emerald, so, no ads...
deathsausage
Wait.... you don't have ads? But having ad blockers are " self defence" ???? Lol have a nice day 😊
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
I don't have ads ***ON THIS SITE*** - ads are everywhere else, pretty much... so yeah, I fucking need ad blocking...
deathsausage
I think that's an American thing.... all I see is temu ads and maybe some for Australian banks....
deathsausage
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
I'm European
deathsausage
Well it's not happening here in Australia.
Lomish
the amount of people who use imgur without adblocker is too damned high
QuigleyDownUnder
They're probably using the app.
Which you can still block ads on if you're using pi-hole on your home network.
CalvinMcFly
Eh??????
QuigleyDownUnder
I've got a raspberry pi zero computer on my network with pihole installed on it. My router points at the pihole as a DNS (domain name server) and on the pihole I have block lists. Each time a machine connects to the Internet it first goes through the pihole for websites address. If it encounters anything in the block list it won't load, and as webpages use info from ad sites you could load up a page and the ads will be blocked while the rest of the pages loads. It can often times work in apps.
QuigleyDownUnder
As an example pihole network on the left and without on the right.
ballsoutflyer
I'm pumping my dns through ad guard's servers. Haven't seen a single ad.
WienerBeener
THERE ARE DOZENS OF US!