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Nothing. If I can’t view a site with my adblocker on, I will simply move on. Don’t get me wrong, I feel for those legitimate platforms who are trying to fund t
by rekabis 3y ago
Nothing. If I can’t view a site with my adblocker on, I will simply move on.
Don’t get me wrong, I feel for those legitimate platforms who are trying to fund themselves, but that well was poisoned for me decades ago.
You see, I was there at the beginning, when accidentally clicking on the wrong link (or the right link on the wrong day) spawned pop-ups and pop-unders, and any attempt to close them would auto-spawn more until not only was your browser frozen, but the entire computer had been ground to a halt (single-core processors, FTW), leaving your only option to conduct a hard shutdown and restart; your unsaved work be damned.
From that brutal period around the turn of the century, I acquired a permanent form of PTSD where ads are concerned. It got so bad that I have refused to consume broadcast TV or Radio for the last 20 years in addition to blocking Internet ads the moment the first adblocker became available for Phoenix (now Firefox).