Helping a friend do something on their computer, I noticed that they didn’t have an ad blocker.
Security and privacy aside, their browsing experience was atrocious.
Impossibly, unusably dire.
Now they have an adblocker, and web pages are uncluttered? Readable? Actually usable?
What a sorry state of affairs.
Adblocking is self care and just plain sensible.
Neil Brown /
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2025-04-21 19:49:14
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2025-04-21 19:49:14Event JSON
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