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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Been having a lot of fun with the latest adtech ratfuckery where sites will crash themselves purposefully when they realize I have an ad blocker installed on iOS/iPadOS safari.

“There was a problem loading the page. Please click OK to learn more.”

No, there wasn’t a problem until you made one. Maybe I’ll get around to figuring out how to get around this but it’s really just had the effect of making me leave their site and never go back. Good job I guess?

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’ve started full-on blocking domains on my pihole for websites that have started to host their own intrusive/tracking ads, break due to other ad domains being blocked, have non-bypassable adblock blocker, or whatever other anti-choice nonsense. Like IMDb won’t load content with the ad elements blocked, so IMDb is just blocked as a whole. Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

Hasn’t been a substantial degradation in experience, if I’m being honest. Barely even notice it outside of one-off searches and stuff, and having to find a new source of info about what I’m watching (if anyone has recommendations, I’d love them!!)

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Between a pihole and uBlock in firefox, I don't see any ads, but IMDb still loads content for me!

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

My pihole used to thoroughly block stuff on IMDB, but I had to rebuild it when my sd card failed, and since then it’s been much less reliable. I’m not really sure what’s going on with it, but meh, I’ll get around to messing with it eventually. Adblocking is ime pretty hit or miss on iOS browsers, so that was basically the only thing I used, so pretty frustrating experience now.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Like IMDb won’t load content with the ad elements blocked, so IMDb is just blocked as a whole.

You seriously must be doing something wrong. I run uBlock Origin in addition to a pihole for dns and i have no issues using imdb.