cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.
Holy fuck, 90% of the screen is dedicated to ads
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.
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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
one post. ONE SINGLE POST on the entire screen…
And it’s a question that’s been asked every single week for 10 years.
Also it’s kind of crazy to me the amount of traffic it gets every. Single. Time. I know they have a bot issue, but do people just like that they know they have a popular opinion and just want to see rhe up votes or is it just one of those “watch the same movie 15 times for the comfort of it” type things. Either way I find it wild.
Everyone who didn’t get their word in last time is desperate to
farm upvotes‘make themselves visible’ this time instead.
bots reposting bots replying to bots up voting bots
and an ad
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Can we stop posting Reddit’s ads here please
charge your phone OP
OP is using the official Reddit app. Probably charged it a few hours ago.
You won’t have ads if you pay the subscription or install a system level as blocker
In my experience reddits ads are served from reddit itself, so even my pihole does not block it.
yeah pretty sure this is correct, cant even block that shit with dns ad blocker
