Yeah the other day I was browing the NYC central park website - https://www.centralpark.com/ https://www.centralpark.com/ And I noticed my 2021 Macbook was una

Yeah the other day I was browing the NYC central park website - https://www.centralpark.com/ https://www.centralpark.com/ And I noticed my 2021 Macbook was unable to scroll to the bottom of the page. It was just chugging like crazy, and I couldn't see the content I wanted because of it. Then I remembered I didn't install AdBlock on this browser. I installed it and went back to the page, and OK now I can actually use the website. --- What concerns me is not so much that there are lots of low quality sites looking to scrape pennies from Google or whatever. It's that this kind of software development culture is normalized -- where government agencies and hospitals are sending data to Google and Facebook. I would be interested to hear from somebody who works in those areas what the incentives are. If you are working on the central park website, why are you adding ads to it? Isn't it funded by the government? Specifically I opened up dev tools and I see like 297 blocked requests to https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net I see ads for Lowe's Hardware Memorial Day sales and such. OK fine, but why are they locking up my computer and making the site unusable? (Also does anyone remember the days when Google was "morally" against invasive image ads and irrelevant ads? They preached non-invasive and relevant, helpful ads. Those days seem SO far away now ...)