Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day agoI actually agree with that but the only other solution is subject yourself to deeply concerning levels of surveillance, not to mention surveillance pricing.
Toggles like that are available in other adblockers too and they pose a problem. They ad a random to showing you ads. You don’t want the ads but if the advertisers pay the adblocker company they get whitelisted and you see the ads anyway.
Never use those toggles.
They ad a random to showing you ads
hhwat
lemmyng@piefed.ca 1 day ago
All ad networks, even the less intrusive ones, can be abused to distribute malware. In this day and age not having an ad blocker is like rawdogging internet strangers.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
You could say the same thing about the webpage itself.