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Yeah, better not to install any kind of adblock even as a test. No one else does. You would be alone. Also, people who use adblock are antisocial. Also, I'd b

Yeah, better not to install any kind of adblock even as a test. No one else does. You would be alone. Also, people who use adblock are antisocial. Also, I'd be mortified if I visited a web page, then the site told me that I cannot continue because I have adblock installed. I wouldn't want that to happen to me even once.

caseyy 2y ago
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- hollerith 2y ago
  In addition to the threat to children, there's also terrorism to consider. It is frightening to consider that the World Trade Center towers might still be standing were it not for ordinary users who foolishly assumed that nothing really bad could happen if they installed adblock.
  - A4ET8a8uTh0 2y ago
    When I have a time to unwind and think less sensible thoughts, I can't help but wonder whether anti-fossil fuels movement would try to capitalize on 9/11 if it happened today and not in 2001 by trying to ban use of planes due to amount of fuel used. "Terrorists use planes. You are not a terrorist, are you?"
    - consteval 2y ago
      Yes, famously the established miliary industrial complex, fiercely anti-fossil fuel. Never mind the end result of 9/11 was used for... pro fossil fuel reasons. And the entire war fought afterwards was done for, let me just check my notes here... oil. Oh. And we didn't even invade the right country? hm.
dopadelic 2y ago
Uh, it's more that I had adblock installed and found myself needing to disable it for most websites just to access it. Adblock ended up being more of a hassle to use than the small handful of sites where it actually worked.
- hollerith 2y ago
  Oh, I see that I misunderstood the motivation behind your comment. I've noticed an increase in sites that do what you describe, but so far I've responded by no longer hanging out on those sites, and that feels OK.
  - hollerith 2y ago
    My adblocker is Ublock Origin Lite (the one that is expected to continue to work on Chrome indefinitely).
- consteval 2y ago
  This hasn't been the case for me and I've been using ublock origin for maybe a decade now. The only sites that break are streaming sites. Which is expected, I mean they need to make their ad money and they sell ad-free tiers. All except paramount plus, funny enough. Yes, you can get ad-free paramount plus for half the cost if you just use ublock origin! I guess they forgot to put in that little bit of logic.

caseyy 2y ago

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hollerith 2y ago
In addition to the threat to children, there's also terrorism to consider. It is frightening to consider that the World Trade Center towers might still be standing were it not for ordinary users who foolishly assumed that nothing really bad could happen if they installed adblock.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 2y ago
  When I have a time to unwind and think less sensible thoughts, I can't help but wonder whether anti-fossil fuels movement would try to capitalize on 9/11 if it happened today and not in 2001 by trying to ban use of planes due to amount of fuel used. "Terrorists use planes. You are not a terrorist, are you?"
  - consteval 2y ago
    Yes, famously the established miliary industrial complex, fiercely anti-fossil fuel. Never mind the end result of 9/11 was used for... pro fossil fuel reasons. And the entire war fought afterwards was done for, let me just check my notes here... oil. Oh. And we didn't even invade the right country? hm.

dopadelic 2y ago

Uh, it's more that I had adblock installed and found myself needing to disable it for most websites just to access it. Adblock ended up being more of a hassle to use than the small handful of sites where it actually worked.

hollerith 2y ago
Oh, I see that I misunderstood the motivation behind your comment. I've noticed an increase in sites that do what you describe, but so far I've responded by no longer hanging out on those sites, and that feels OK.
- hollerith 2y ago
  My adblocker is Ublock Origin Lite (the one that is expected to continue to work on Chrome indefinitely).
consteval 2y ago
This hasn't been the case for me and I've been using ublock origin for maybe a decade now. The only sites that break are streaming sites. Which is expected, I mean they need to make their ad money and they sell ad-free tiers. All except paramount plus, funny enough. Yes, you can get ad-free paramount plus for half the cost if you just use ublock origin! I guess they forgot to put in that little bit of logic.