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I can't imagine browsing sites without an adblocker.

by neom 3y ago

lacrimacida 3y ago
Sounds like a good statatement to print on t-shirts.
- JKCalhoun 3y ago
  Ads Are For Suckers reads more succinctly. (And no offense to OP.)
  - nogridbag 3y ago
    No offense taken. Unlike my childhood where I used to navigate via webrings and questionable search engines, these days I rarely visit anything but HN links. So I haven't had much of a need for an ad blocker. Occasionally I'm surprised links like these get to the front page, even with all the ads and horrible UX. I must admit, I too wanted to believe so badly we can communicate with whales, that I managed to scroll down to see the first paragraph below the fold. But quickly closed it shortly after to read the HN comments.
    - JKCalhoun 3y ago
      Yeah, it is too bad this crap is the new normal for web sites. It saddens me that Gen Y (or what have you) never knew an internet before it became a marketing landscape.
- neilv 3y ago
  Related: there's a snazzy uBlock Origin logo T-shirt for sale online, but I won't link it right now, because unclear whether it's approved by Raymond Hill, and I don't see a mention of what the proceeds support.
  - freedomben 3y ago
    my guess based on his strong (and extremely venerable) principles against monetizing uBO is that it's not approved by him, although I think him selling merch would be an awesome way to fund development. I would gladly buy some uMatrix t-shirts if it meant a resumption of uMatrix dev! :-D
moffkalast 3y ago
A vanilla browser is genuinely malware that needs an adblocker to act as an old school antivirus.
jeffbee 3y ago
I think the problem is that you have one population of readers who go with the ad blocker, and they don't know that they are about to send everyone to this eyesore. The other population is people who don't use ad blockers, but also who would never visit this site, because it's an eyesore. For that second population: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/285cs https://osf.io/preprints/osf/285cs The overwhelming remainder of people are in neither: they don't block ads, and they don't care. And their TVs are on all day long.

I can't imagine browsing sites without an adblocker.

by neom 3y ago

I can't imagine browsing sites without an adblocker.

lacrimacida 3y ago

Sounds like a good statatement to print on t-shirts.

JKCalhoun 3y ago
Ads Are For Suckers reads more succinctly. (And no offense to OP.)
- nogridbag 3y ago
  No offense taken. Unlike my childhood where I used to navigate via webrings and questionable search engines, these days I rarely visit anything but HN links. So I haven't had much of a need for an ad blocker. Occasionally I'm surprised links like these get to the front page, even with all the ads and horrible UX. I must admit, I too wanted to believe so badly we can communicate with whales, that I managed to scroll down to see the first paragraph below the fold. But quickly closed it shortly after to read the HN comments.
  - JKCalhoun 3y ago
    Yeah, it is too bad this crap is the new normal for web sites. It saddens me that Gen Y (or what have you) never knew an internet before it became a marketing landscape.
neilv 3y ago
Related: there's a snazzy uBlock Origin logo T-shirt for sale online, but I won't link it right now, because unclear whether it's approved by Raymond Hill, and I don't see a mention of what the proceeds support.
- freedomben 3y ago
  my guess based on his strong (and extremely venerable) principles against monetizing uBO is that it's not approved by him, although I think him selling merch would be an awesome way to fund development. I would gladly buy some uMatrix t-shirts if it meant a resumption of uMatrix dev! :-D

moffkalast 3y ago

A vanilla browser is genuinely malware that needs an adblocker to act as an old school antivirus.

jeffbee 3y ago

I think the problem is that you have one population of readers who go with the ad blocker, and they don't know that they are about to send everyone to this eyesore. The other population is people who don't use ad blockers, but also who would never visit this site, because it's an eyesore. For that second population: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/285cs https://osf.io/preprints/osf/285cs The overwhelming remainder of people are in neither: they don't block ads, and they don't care. And their TVs are on all day long.