Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox

• a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this is something i cannot understand. my brain would fking die from the seizures the modern, ad infested web induces.

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  • omarfw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It used to be worse. Pop ups are mostly a thing of the past. The web used to be a shit hole and there were no ad blockers back then.

    Regardless, you’re right. I don’t understand why or how people could be ignorant of the existence of adblock in 2024 unless they’re boomers.

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Since ads began, there have been ad-blockers. You just didn’t know about them.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And the creepiness. Advertisers can deduce many habits based on the information you give them. Some techniques can tell when people are pregnant before they do based on their pathing inside the store, for instance.

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    • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And yet, all they continue to sell me is a dryer when I just bought one a month ago.

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Most people are stupid, myopic imbeciles that arent bothered by anything until it personally affects them.

  Then they’ll howl like wolves at the moon about the great injustice of it all, and how could anyone allow this to happen.

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