Fuck. I'm getting too old for this shit. The cat and mouse game of Google / AdTech vs the general public has gone off the deep end. Popups. Popovers. Popunders.

Fuck. I'm getting too old for this shit. The cat and mouse game of Google / AdTech vs the general public has gone off the deep end. Popups. Popovers. Popunders. Content shifting. Paywalls. GDPR Alert! Chatbots. Can I send you a Cookie? Ok. Can I help you find something? No. Wait! Don't close the page yet! Coupon code? No. Subscribe to our newsletter? No. Autoplaying video. How To Make A Million Bucks A Month Selling On Amazon! You Can Be A Handsome Guy On A Beach Making Money Just Like Me! For. Fucks. Sake. I just want to use the web to access a few of my favorite news sites, use Github, access documentation, watch the (very) occasional YouTube vid, and send email. Am I a dying breed? A mere rounding error in the pie chart of web users? Maybe. But I am truly at a loss for what to do next. Using the internet without uBO is like sticking needles into my eyeballs. "Switch to Firefox!" they said. I've tried, many times. But I really need some simple things that FF can't provide. Like being able to work with JXA to grab tab URLs for some Alfred scripts and other automations I rely heavily on. There's a 20-year old feature request for this[0]. Ok, Brave then? Probably the best option right now, but it keeps me up at night thinking one day Google will actively start going after the forks, making their lives difficult enough in one way or another to the point that they have to shut down. Safari? I haven't checked in a while but there were some critical extensions that just didn't exist last time I checked- things like Rich URL[1] for copying tabs as markdown (so useful!). Dev tools were meh. Just feels like there aren't any good options. Rock and hard place. Google, enough is enough—why are you doing this? (rhetorical. we know why) [0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125419 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125419 [1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rich-url/bkjdcppkdgccnhjibfhlhmeiafnjfamk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rich-url/bkjdcppkd...