Slightly tangential rant — I use an application firewall to actively allow/deny network connection attempts. It takes a bunch of tuning for the first month or s

Slightly tangential rant — I use an application firewall to actively allow/deny network connection attempts. It takes a bunch of tuning for the first month or so, but it’s then far less intrusive. It’s worth a week of click-ops’ing all of your network usage. Paired with DNS adblocking and enabling JavaScript on a per-domain basis, I am continually astonished at how garbage ridden the Internet has become anytime I’m outside of my network moat. I don’t think there’s any one answer, but I think a lot of it is laziness, greed, and a lack of care. Seriously, why is Stripe on (figuratively) _every_ page? Maybe that’s just lazy development. But why does Azure’s US marketing/pricing site load Google Brazil includes? Why does the 1Password web vault need to connect to marketing clouds? I was visiting a site yesterday where the mobile experience was basically top to bottom ads, and then when you start scrolling one of those annoying “Login or sign up with your Google Account” popups took up the whole bottom half. The site was basically unusable.