SN Ads Suck! Opt Out now with this CSS snippet
192 sats \ 18 comments \ @nullcount 17 Aug 2023 meta
You've probably seen the new AD posts on SN recently. k00b says he'll let you "opt out" one day, but you won't get the sats that the advertisers contribute to the reward pool.
This isn't a true opt-out. It's a choice that is being forced on you. Either you view shitty ads, or you take less sats for contributing to SN discussions.
Today you can hide these ads in your webrowser with this CSS snippet. Just install an extension that lets you load custom CSS for webpages you visit.
SN can try to thwart client-side blocking like this, but that's the kinda shit Zuckerberg does and I like to believe k00b isn't that much of a power-hungry capitalist.
div[class^="item_item"]:has(svg[class^="item_ad"]) {
	display: none;
}
div[class^="item_item"]:has(svg[class^="item_ad"]) + div:empty{
	display: none;
}
If anyone has tips to load this CSS in mobile browsers, let us know!
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152 sats \ 9 replies \ @siggy47 17 Aug 2023
Maybe you're overreacting? Do those little ads bother you that much? Have you noticed the increase in daily rewards? Sats don't grow on trees. SN has bills to pay too.
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92 sats \ 2 replies \ @03365d6a53 17 Aug 2023
I'm with siggy on this one
Running a business is hard, and whilst I may not agree with Federated Computers marketing / brand positioning, I do respect their product and what they are trying to achieve. And they do engage with the posts, and it's all transparent.
The fact the rewards increase is also pretty neat, no?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullcount OP 17 Aug 2023
Run this CSS and you get the rewards without seeing the ads. Win-win for you.
You're free to continue to allow corporations to infiltrate your mind in support of SN or whatever.
Most people think ads don't work on them, but they clearly do work since corpos keep paying for them
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @03365d6a53 17 Aug 2023
fair play.
thanks for sharing, it's a pretty neat hack actually
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @nullcount OP 17 Aug 2023
Ads, like inflation, are just another way to steal from you silently.
Most people are surrounded. But myself and many others have managed to craft an ad free existence (at least online)
If SN has to fund itself by making its users the product, just understand that's exactly what every other web2.0 site does and its evidence that adding Zaps did not fundamentally change the business model of social media.
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353 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 17 Aug 2023
We only have the experimental ad to give people more sats. We aren't profiting from it. We aren't doing it to sell you. We are doing it to pay you.
My express goal with ads is for them to benefit stackers. I'm not interested in running a product that funds itself with ads and I'm in control and that's not changing anytime soon. I'd rather shut SN down than sacrifice stackers in any way, especially sacrificing them for advertisers.
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697 sats \ 0 replies \ @franzap 19 Sep 2023
Respect
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullcount OP 17 Aug 2023
ads should be an opt-in to "get more reward" instead of opt-out to "get less reward". just a UX thing to make it explicitly voluntary. Might even increase conversion rates and result in less "Advert Hate" comments on the ad itself.
How will you deal with "pirates" that avoid ads and get still get rewarded? If the goal is to trick advertisers to pay stackers, should be fine to let the pirates be pirates argh!
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63 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 17 Aug 2023
Opt-in might be the way. We generally want defaults to represent the majority's preference I think and that might be it.
We literally made no changes in anticipation of ads. We just wanted to see how it went with the features we had and adjust. We've gotten a lot of great "direction" on how to change ads and we'll use it.
How will you deal with "pirates" that avoid ads and get still get rewarded? If the goal is to trick advertisers to pay stackers, should be fine to let the pirates be pirates argh!
The goal isn't to trick anyone. The goal is to get stackers more sats. Ideally sats they've earned. I'm not interested in fighting pirates. I support you or anyone trying to avoid seeing ads. I want to help you avoid ads if you don't want to see them. I just have 1 million things to do at any given point in time.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 17 Aug 2023
Even more reason to ignore that little ad
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 17 Aug 2023
I’m not weighing in one way or another regarding the ad experiment, but perhaps an interesting angle: at least with this model, you know it’s an ad. How many posts have you seen on here (and other platforms) that are clearly advertisements thinly veiled as genuine content?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @random_ 19 Aug 2023 freebie
If anyone has tips to load this CSS in mobile browsers, let us know!
You can add CSS rules to uBlock origin which works for firefox mobile.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 17 Aug 2023
Legit. Hopefully we can get the opt-out done soon too.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryptocoin 17 Aug 2023
I use SN via PWA. Is that why I have no idea what these ads are?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 17 Aug 2023
nah, it's about ads like this
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheL0wner 17 Aug 2023
according to koob rewards are zapping things, not contributing to discussions. makes it more like a rebate or refund than a reward.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 17 Aug 2023
You still get the sats that others zap you (which should be more plentiful if they're "refunded") but I hear you
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @wikparclones 17 Aug 2023
Wow... Money is Energy and Ads love Money ,😂
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