Adblocker sind wichtig und selfcare, Abwehr einer Werbebranche, die jeglichen Sinn für die Realität verloren hat.

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

@wurzelmann Oh that article speaks to my soul!

> I don't know where this fascination with getting everyone to download your app comes from.

or

> The reader is not respected enough by the software. The publisher is held hostage by incentives from an auction system that not only encourages but also rewards dark patterns.

@wurzelmann These pesky "sign up with Google forms" for example...

https://mastodon.social/@NE555/116194716069398858

Awesome Toast | Block those “Sign in with Google” pop-ups using uBlock Origin

@wurzelmann Nice, thank you so much for this tip!
@NE555 you're welcome! It annoyed me too for years...
@wurzelmann @NE555 Thank you for your kind words! 🙏