Michael Lucas Feb 8
"Oh, ads don't put that much burden on your browser! You're exaggerating how bad they are!"
Show threadJBrickelt963 โœŠ(ฯ†)๐Ÿšฉ
@mwl When I stopped by to take a look at #Bluesky, I had 1k trackers. Here zero, nothing. Glad to be on #Mastodon ^^
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Michael Lucas Feb 8
"Oh, ads don't put that much burden on your browser! You're exaggerating how bad they are!"
Show threadTim ChaseFeb 8
@mwl I find it quite delightful that, while the Xitter or FB tab has ever-increasing adverts getting blocked, I look up at ublock on Mastodon sites and there's nothing. No count. Zero ads blocked because there are zero ads. #refreshing
Show threadBill HookerFeb 8
@gumnos @mwl Me too.
Show threadTableflipFeb 8
@mwl iโ€™ve managed to get 887k on word in the webbrowser
Show threadMichael Lucas Feb 8
@Lookatableflip high score! 
Show threadSander van KasteelFeb 8
@Lookatableflip @mwl Same vibe as, "We take your very privacy serious"
Show threadRuben Schade  ๐Ÿ”ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บFeb 8

@mwl

My partner worked (briefly) at an adtech firm. Her comment is always the same: "it is SO much creepier and (more!) pervasive than you think".

Show threadJeffFeb 8
@rubenerd @mwl As someone who has wasted more braincells on hadoop than it deserves, Ruben's partner is right.
Show threadAdam Trickett  Feb 9

@mwl I've used an ad blocker for so many years that when I use a computer without one I'm stunned by how unusable so many we'd sites are.

We're also trapped on an ancient 5.5 Mbps ADSL line and on a begging list to be upgraded to fibre before ADSL is turned off nationwide in 2030. Ads slow browsing down to a crawl if you don't block them and eat CPU cycles like there is no tomorrow...

Show threadGwen moved to transfem socialFeb 9
@mwl I wonder if this number could be inflated by failed calls leading to retries.

To be clear, I think AdBlock is self preservation and ads on websites should die, I am just thinking about the technical side of this and good strong of an argument it actually is...
Show threadMichael Lucas Feb 9

@gwenthekween

oh, it might be a bug. No argument!

Still, it's a problem.

Show threadSin VegaFeb 9
@mwl meanwhile, this place vs the corporate internet
Show threadEndlessMasonFeb 9

@sinvega @mwl

uBlock Origin says 26% of the web I've visited was ad.

Show threadYoraFeb 9

@mwl Probably a site that also wants you to accept cookies from their 1573 partners.

(no hyperbole)

Show threadgorgeous georgeousFeb 9
@mwl A vendor was giving me a demo on Friday and while it was pleasing to see them running uBlock, it was less pleasing to see it had blocked elements on their own cloud application...
Show threadJBrickelt963 โœŠ(ฯ†)๐ŸšฉFeb 9
@mwl When I stopped by to take a look at #Bluesky, I had 1k trackers. Here zero, nothing. Glad to be on #Mastodon ^^
Show threadmudalaFeb 9
@mwl
...no comment ยง8-)
Show threadTrev Feb 9
@mwl they may not be all 87 thousand ads. That extension blocks cross site scripts, for better or worse. Worse would be helpful, anonymous analytics data. Better is obviously trackers and ads
Show threadRobert RoskamFeb 9
@mwl going to guess a recipe website for superbowl nachos or something
Show threadCalicosineFeb 9
@mwl YouTube be like,