Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Aug 17, 2023

If large websites respected our choices regarding ads (DNT is a decade old, people!) and served contextual ads when asked to not track, we would not need to use #AdBlockers.

Instead, for over a decade now web publishing industry's been hell bent on screwing readers over, ignoring clearly stated preferences, misrepresenting what they do with the data, and using dark patterns to maliciously mis-implement legal requirements when forced to do so.

Stop this crap and I might disable my AdBlocker.

Show threadAndy CarolanAug 17, 2023
@rysiek I resisted using an adblocker for as long as possible, but without it, much of the internet is now unusable. I'm simply not going to sit there and wait for multiple adverts to load, just to read a short article! And on mobile, it's my mobile data plan they're using for all those irrelevant autoplay video ads
Show threadPiTauAug 17, 2023
@andycarolan @rysiek I thought the modern internet is broken beyond repair. Then I forgot to import my Firefox profile on a freshly installed OS. I refuse to believe, that there are people using internet without uBlock Origin. Even then a lot of sites are bloated. I'll probably go on a rant about this soon...
Show threadAndy Carolan
@PiTau The internet is very broken now. Search for one is a joke. Sponsored and irrelevant content regularly appears before relevant results. Search should have been immune to manipulation by companies and individuals... but here we are. @rysiek
Aug 17, 2023 at 5:34pmWeb