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I use Brave, Adblock, DDG etc, recently booted into my Windows partition to open a Macro-enabled Excel report. Had to look something up and used the default Edg

I use Brave, Adblock, DDG etc, recently booted into my Windows partition to open a Macro-enabled Excel report. Had to look something up and used the default Edge browser without blockers etc. The experience felt like a sick joke- pop-ups everywhere, hijacked scrollbars, auto-playing ad videos galore, for a single web search. I feel guilty that many unaware internet users are subject to such a degraded browsing experience.

seanw444 4y ago
Recently had a similar experience. I was horrified. If there were no alternatives, I'd just stop browsing the web for the most part, to be honest. Library it is. Thankfully, there are lots of smart people staying one step ahead of the greedy corporations. And there will continue to be until the internet becomes a bearable experience by default. That'll probably never happen though.