Third spruce tree on the left"An ad blocker is preventing this page from loading."
No, my #adblocker is preventing your #ADs from loading. The fact that the REST of your page refuses to load if the ads dont load, well that sounds like a YOU problem.
Pieter@tezoatlipoca As much as I hate ads, tracking, malvertising and websites trying to blame my adblocker... we are not entitled to free ad-free content.
We complain about paywalls. We complain about ads. And when websites that invest in high-quality journalism go out of business because they can't pay their staff, we complain that everything is AI slop and SEO spam nowadays.
The content industry is so weird.
Mad Engineering@superblox @tezoatlipoca Early internet spoiled us by being primarily academic, everything was free because tax money was used to pay for the required work in the first place.
@madengineering @tezoatlipoca The internet is more than just a collection of scientific publications to me though. If that's all you desire, that's still out there.
@superblox @tezoatlipoca The ideal was, I think the banner ad. Simple Image. Paid for the content, and there were limits to how much it could annoy you.
AlisonW@madengineering @superblox @tezoatlipoca
Once we got rid of 14.4k dialup it was open season on having big fat heavy-load advertising. #NoGoingBack though.
Once we got rid of 14.4k dialup it was open season on having big fat heavy-load advertising. #NoGoingBack though.