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Obnoxious ads are definitely a problem. If they were native, I'm not sure we'd have much recourse against them. I disable auto-play in Firefox, but that's not t
by jasonkostempski 8y ago
Obnoxious ads are definitely a problem. If they were native, I'm not sure we'd have much recourse against them. I disable auto-play in Firefox, but that's not the default and some browsers don't even have the option. I'm personally fine with that scenario, I'd rather just black-list a sites that go too far, but we need better tools to do that. I made an FF extension for myself that lets me remove links to any sites I choose from any page I view. For example, there are several sites I know I'm going to hit a paywall or "sign in to view" if I visit, I'd rather just never see those links, now I don't. If everyone had that power (preferably built in to browsers) and it was easy to use and, possibly, community driven, site owners might be far more conscious about what they do, at the risk of being basically removed from the internet.