• rmuk@feddit.uk
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    16 hours ago

    My nephew was getting worked up by constant ad interruptions in his iPad games (I know, I know) so I installed PiHole on their network to block ads. A week later my brother demanded I take it out becaus he wants ads back. I’m not joking - he actually clicks the sponsored links in search results, and it annoyed him that he couldn’t click on adverts in articles and on Facebook any more. Some people really are further gone than you might realise.

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      16 hours ago

      I can kind of relate to that last part, with my SO complaining about not being able to click the first few links on google results - and my inner self is screaming ‘why google in the first place?!’ 😄

      On a sidenote, its so crazy to see what all the “free” mobile games are phoning home once you check the Pihole statistics.