android

software

Blocking Digital Ads, as a Digital Ad Manager

I've been working in marketing and advertising for somewhere around 15 years now, with the last 10 or so being focused on pay-per-click advertising. Google ads, Facebook ads, a few industry platforms you've never heard of and one time even Bing!

I also wish I could literally never see another ad ever again outside of my 9-5 working hours.

That's obviously a bit of an issue for me, what with, you know, my livelihood reliant on the existence of digital advertising.

Historically, I haven't really bothered with much in-depth ad blocking. I've been content to run uBlock Origin (not uBlock, not Adblock... uBlock Origin specifically) in Firefox on my PC and phone, then do all my work stuff in Chrome with no ad blocking. Oddly enough, blocking ad content seems to completely break the ad management platforms I'm using every

productivity

Sync Obsidian Across Devices for Free via a Synology NAS

I wish I wasn’t as particular as I am, but not much to be done about that. If I want a thing, it will be thoroughly researched and I will obtain the perfect thing that suits my needs. And I don’t mean to say the perfect thing is necessarily expensive or literally the best available version of the thing I’m looking for, but that it checks all the boxes I’ve arbitrarily decided are important for the thing. Either way, I get hung up on the thing.

I’ve used at least a dozen different note-taking, Personal Knowledge Management, Project Management and productivity apps and software over the years. I used to be all about Evernote until they shit the bed, and ever since I’ve been free-floating through the Internet occasionally testing out a cool new note-taking app or self-hosting some novel