Demand ad companies take security seriously first and maybe we'll talk.

I've been halfheartedly saying I'm going to start a religion based on ads being bad for one's soul. It makes more sense every day.

Not just for security, selling snake oil is also grounds for ad blocking.

No way they can be the same.

The adblock stops malware, makes my browser perform better, and stops things from disrupting me. The most common result of anti-virus the complete opposite of each of those 3.

If I saw a popup tell me to disable my antivirus Id nope out of there even faster than the ones that demand I disable my ad blocker.

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A good Adblock is a digital equivalent of an armored car. You can go everywhere, comfortably. Visit the most terrible sites or places. All this time protected from the bullets of capitalism.

I swear I'm about done with YT. The ads are long, overabundant, irrelevant, and timed specifically to fuck with people in the middle of specific segments of content. I mean, I keep getting ads for Oppenheimer for the past four days. I already own Oppenheimer - and Google knows this. My Google account is linked to my MoviesAnywhere account, they have this information. What is the point of "targeted" advertisements if they net the advertiser zero value? Is Google just messing with users trying to block their ads at this point?

As a sysadmin I have so many devs asking me to set up antivirus exceptions for their apps, disable UAC, run the service as full admin, etc

Hell no. Submit your shit to virus total and learn how to program.

Don't be silly. Wrap your willy.

What website that ask you to disable antivirus ? Capt ?

I often disable my adblocker on sites of smaller and more independent news companies, if they don't run Google ads (I've heard them getting dropped in countries like Hungary and Russia for obvious reasons).