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iOS 18 has fulfilled my dream of destroying ads with a Thanos snap
- cityzen 2y agoHow bout those huge ads littered all over Apple News… I bet those don’t thanos snap away.
- floydnoel 2y agoApple News premium- the most ad-filled PAID apple product
- mmsc 2y agoThere's some level of irony related to the first paragraph talking about annoying cookie banners, when theverge displays a full-screen cookie banner "We and our 848 partners store and access personal data".
- BugsJustFindMe 2y agoMaybe complementary to an ad blocker, but certainly not a replacement for one. It seems like an annoying amount of extra work for something that won't save state across refreshes.
- strikelaserclaw 2y ago"You still load up the ads so the website owner gets an ad view, no harm done." - not quite, without other events like taking a user to advertisers page or linking sales to this particular ad, i think this website will have its ad revenue reduced.
- bediger4000 2y agoThis also doesn't punish the advertiser for externalizing ad costs by using your storage, bandwidth and CPU. Inadequate.
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- hu3 2y agohaving an inferior uBlock Origin implementation, because the real owner of the device blocked other browser engines in the device you paid $1000 for, is not cause for celebration.