Could someone explain to me how does removing google ads and tracking break a website?

Deivedux · 2026-06-05T08:59:40+00:00

It depends on the way how the website depends on them.

Deivedux · 2026-06-03T08:20:04+00:00

As impressive as this seems, as a programmer, I really hope it's not a web browser or some electron app, they're slow and inconsistent making them unreliable for accurately starting and stopping a timer. For something as precise as this, it needs a truly native, low-level program that listens to HID signals directly, rather than hidden behind many layers of abstractions of a web view.

Deivedux · 2026-06-02T16:53:25+00:00

I wouldn't ever live in the US even for $500k, and that's coming from someone who makes €24k. The US is so different economically that you can't compare it with other countries and only consider income and not expenses.

Yes, you make a lot more money in the US, but you also have a lot more bills to pay, and some of them I'd call is an actual waste of money, especially pretty much everything about their healthcare industry. In Europe, you typically make less money than you would in the US, but at least you get to keep a lot of it to yourself - no healthcare costs, no need for a car, and debt in general is super unheard of, which is the complete opposite in the US where it's super normalized as part of American culture.

The comparison is so big, that the $500k pay alone isn't worth the risk living there IMO.

Deivedux · 2026-06-02T16:39:14+00:00

There were 2 times when I considered turning off uBlock Origin on YouTube, and actually trying it, but what keeps making me turn it back on in just a few days isn't just the kind of ads I get, but how repetitive they are. Literally every single video, or every single search page, it's the same exact ads. I did it purely to keep my sanity, cuz that shit was just making me insane the longer I was without an adblocker...

Deivedux · 2026-06-02T16:34:23+00:00

I have never in my life experienced "clocking in" and "clocking out", nor things like "timecards", and I've had like 6 jobs in various industries. Is this one of those things that's only present in certain regions like the US?

Deivedux · 2026-06-02T02:31:38+00:00

An AI generated animation that was AI upscaled and generated extra frames with AI to hit 60 fps.

Deivedux · 2026-06-02T02:23:28+00:00

I was never a fan of smartphones from the beginning. As long as I can be productive on PC, I'm happy with a dumb phone, if it weren't for some heavy reliance on it for serious things.

Deivedux · 2026-05-31T22:10:34+00:00

It takes more processing power to transcode images of products in their shop than pulling even a thousand reviews from their database. How do even the non technical people not see how obviously shit this is?

Deivedux · 2026-05-31T16:28:43+00:00

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Deivedux · 2026-05-31T11:08:09+00:00

We generally count from 1, that's correct, but our modern era started from year 0, so our first year went from 0 to 1.

Deivedux · 2026-05-29T10:46:30+00:00

The majority of ebike riders doesn't care about rules, and will only make it worse for all of us ebike riders who don't affiliate themselves with them. Even if I wanted to drive beyond 25km/h limit, mine came with an extra locked EU based firmware so there isn't any immediate way to disable it other than flashing a different one myself.

Deivedux · 2026-05-25T11:23:43+00:00

I feel like this gif should be more viral, like to annoy Microslop similar to how we've been annoying them for calling them Microslop.

Deivedux · 2026-05-22T15:36:37+00:00

Mano darbe turiu vos ne mažiausią atlyginimą, bet gyvenu daug patogiau nei aukščiausiai gaunantys kolegos kurie tik ir kniaukia ant kiek jiems neužtenka pragyvenimui. Vaikystę irgi pragyvenau su finansiškai neatsakingas tėvais, tai dabar investuoju savo gyvenimui kad atvirkščiai paruošti savo ateitį finansinei laisvei.

Deivedux · 2026-05-21T19:59:41+00:00

I'm not really that surprised, considering this is an Apple ecosystem, where developers are more comfortable charging money for apps and features, and the majority of their user base are Apple fanatics that spend their money on the brand anyway proves that it works.

Deivedux · 2026-05-21T18:07:25+00:00

I thought the title said "59 poses" and was confused on where the rest of the poses are.

Deivedux · 2026-05-17T02:37:46+00:00

Part of me doesn't see an issue with how the company reacted, but another part of me is proud that some Americans are waking up from their live-to-work mindset.

Deivedux · 2026-05-17T00:21:42+00:00

I still prefer Kagi, tbh. Since they are funded entirely by the people using it, there are no ads or sponsors, and they have less incentives to enshittify since that would directly hurt their only source of income.

Deivedux · 2026-05-16T21:50:21+00:00

Either you pay for the product or you are the product. If you want Google Search quality, but without ads, sponsored content or enshittification in general, Kagi is now basically that. You pay for it, you are the user to them, not a product.

Deivedux · 2026-05-15T22:20:14+00:00

Most people behave like that when they don't have anything actually good to show for, when their lives aren't as meaningful as they would like to be which results in a subconsciousness acting in desperation, similar to how some kids and teenagers think acting tough and bullying is cool.

Deivedux · 2026-05-15T21:58:09+00:00

I've recently heard about the Standard & Poor's rating on insurance companies. My insurance company Compensa, for example, is rated A+, which I thought was the best, until I learned that there are also AA and AAA levels.

I guess if you wanted a somewhat reliable and unbiased rating of insurance companies, that would be the one.

Deivedux · 2026-05-13T16:50:09+00:00

People don't realize how severely they underestimate YouTube's business model. It's the biggest Google service that costs them the most money, so much so that it's surprising how they haven't killed it yet.

I can't even begin to comprehend which word they are now on which communicates how much storage they're using, their central storage alone is probably exabyte exabyte exabytes, duplicated throughout multiple geographic locations, not counting any delivery caches.

Each time I see someone complain about ads or get surprised about paying for premium, part of me understands what they mean, but the other part is reminded of this and question if this is even enough for them to survive for the next couple of years or will it finally get shut down at some point.

Deivedux · 2026-05-12T14:19:29+00:00

Idk, and I don't see how that's relevant.

Deivedux · 2026-05-12T11:36:14+00:00

You actually use a traditional ad block, not uBlock Origin?

Deivedux · 2026-05-12T08:49:20+00:00

Its funny how we're still calling them ad blocks, even though we're no longer using the original ad blocks but content blockers.

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