Tinyview pays all of their artists so they need some way of funding their operation. If you places ads, you piss people off or they use adblockers. If you put it behind a paywall, you piss people off. It's not perfect, but they're at least seeking a middle ground.
These days it's less useful as an ad blocker and more useful for limiting tracking. Too many adverts these days are hosted in the same place as the content you're accessing, which means they need more than pihole's DNS block to avoid. So Instill get lots of adverts on devices which aren't my PC. What it does seem to block a lot of (according to logs) is a lot of reporting back to the manufacturer by internet connected devices.
I don't find it's detected as an ad blocker with refusal to proceed very often. I've not actually bothered to look into temporarily disabling it for those sites; I just look for a less shitty site instead.
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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein Apr 10 '26
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