On some websites, longtime text-only browser users are seeing new greetings like "I see you are using an adblocker." Usually they are greeted with warnings abo

On some websites, longtime text-only browser users are seeing new greetings like "I see you are using an adblocker." Usually they are greeted with warnings about lack of functionality because of absence of Javascript, and imperatives that they must upgrade to a "modern browser". Once-free websites that were converted to companies, like Google and Facebook, must survive on web ads. But web ads are built on an unstable foundation; their presence relies on several assumptions. And, quite simply, the web works without them -- without the assumptions and without the ads. Longtime web users, who grew up with early "browser" prototypes, including "text-only browsers", remember this. The network is very fast now. We can move all manner of data across "the web". But the architecture of the internet and the web is still more or less the same. This is, thankfully, why "blocking" (not requesting) web ads is so easy.