Recently I read a post by someone on a different platform announcing they got a youtube premium subscription just to listen to concerts / long music compilations without ad breaks. My first instinct was to tell them to install ublock origin. But instead, I decided to leave them alone. They didn't ask for advice, after all.
Now I'm not so sure if that was the right decision. If there was an easy way for me to avoid ads, not just on one website but on basically all of them, and I didn't even have to pay for it, I'd definitely want people to tell me about it
@schratze In cases like this, where I think there's a reasonable chance that they don't know about it but they might want to, I usually just ask if they're interested in advice on getting rid of ads completely, for example. And if they say 'no', leave the topic be.
(From experience, a lot of people *don't* know about adblocking, and are happy to learn about it, as long as you don't *assume* they don't know and/or are interested, and aren't pushy about it. And asking "do you want advice" allows them to say "no" without having to provide a reason, which seems to be the main thing that matters to people.)
