We should stop calling them “ad blockers”. If a site serves up a few banner ads as images like the old days, that’s fine. I don’t object to a site paying the bills, or seeing a banner ad.

They’re malware blockers and privacy protections. I don’t want a site popping up bullshit and trying to track me across the net. If that’s what a site is serving, it’s more than an ad, and I absolutely want to block it.

@jzb Perhaps i would not call them ad blockers cos they don't block ads that hide as content. Like YT videos with sponsors ingrained in the video, making the video an ad. Or website pages that try to recommend you things that are actually ads. Even some news articles are actually ads mimicking news.
@Azarilh @jzb I highly recommend the SponsorBlock browser extension.
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SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.

@goes2hard Yea, i do use it. I should've specified. ^^