Chloé 🥕"Why are people saying the modern Web is cluttered and unuseable? It's really not that bad..."
*disables adblocker*
"oh."
Mike Torr@carotte Yep. Opera is really good at blocking ads. Mind you, I still have to put up with:
- this site would like to send you notifications (WHY? It's not an app!)
- bad cookie option pop-ups
- auto-playing videos
- awful hover menus where stuff happens without a click.
Sigh.
@macronencer You should try out Firefox! It doesn't block ads by default but with some settings changed and a couple of extentions (uBlock Origin for ads and Consent-O-Matic for cookies) it handles most of these problems
@carotte I used to use Firefox. I changed to Opera so long ago that I can no longer remember why :) Maybe I'll take another look. Thanks!
noodlejetski 
@macronencer definitely worth checking out. Opera has been bought by a Chinese consortium some years ago and frankly, I wouldn't trust it with something as personal as my browsing history.
@carotte
@carotte
@noodlejetski I didn't know that. Sigh. It's so hard to keep up. I work in IT and I have family members who aren't as clued up as I am... but I'm also 58 and although I'm trying to stay current, it's a PITA. Wouldn't it be lovely if everyone just played nice?
@macronencer yeah, trying to keep up with it sometimes feels like a full time job.