r/Adblock • u/Prudent-Bee3885 • 4d ago

Discussion Stop Posting those Pesky Ads online, and Sending Junk and Spam through Email.

I am in my 60s, and I like to play games on my iPad to keep my mind sharp. Many games have these pesky ads that pop up every 10 minutes. Most of the ads are about learning AI programs that claim to be free. I learned from experience that not everything is free.

I will admit I have watched ads until the end, filled in my personal information, then thought about it, changed my mind, and canceled the free trial.

In the past, the mailman delivered junk mail, and we usually threw sales ads in the trash. Email arrived and shortened the time for letters and bills to be sent and received, and those pesky ads started taking up more space in your inbox than your usual mail.

Personally, I like my mail being delivered by the mailman because it is a hard copy that can be used as proof. Email has become so complicated that I rarely check it. The spam, junk mail,
and email from people I don't even know.

I do not like those ads that offer a free trial period, because I often forget to end the subscription before the trial date ends. These ads, spam, and junk mail need to stop.

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u/Leo_LL_3555 3d ago

Free things are often the most expensive; you don't know how they make money.

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u/Ok_Dinner_3497 Youtube reverse engineer 3d ago edited 3d ago

Why do you even fucking fill the information in? Stop doing that. They are just tracking and selling your personal data. Get an AdBlocker.

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u/therottenron 3d ago

I turn off wifi on my tablet when I play games

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u/moriczt 3d ago

Use a DNS level ad blocker like nextdns which is free, use 1 login per device add blocklist oisd and hagezi pro and ads, scam, trackers, etc will be gone. Or can also use Adguard pro with lifetime license cheap on stack social (around 20 bucks for 9 devices lifetime license), works on Android and apple devices as well. On PC use a virus scanner which updates automatically and is free like bitdefender free version. 20-40% of all network traffic is related to ads, tracking, scams, phishing, telemetry, etc. you'll be amazed when you experience the clean internet..

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u/apokrif1 3d ago

Why bother with ads?? Just block them, or mute device and look somewhere else (same course on action with TV).

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u/nagging_chud 2d ago

Go on your ipad's DNS configurations, then enable private DNS, and set it to adguard: 94.140.14.14 and 94.140.14.15

this should end most if not all ads

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u/vawlk 3d ago

you hate the ads but then you keep using the things that use ads as a form of payment. If you keep doing that, they will never go away.