No. #Internet
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@flipper That or the "close tab" button
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@Infrogmation Often the ad links are how the people who made the content you're looking at get paid. Knock yourself out when it's giant media conglomerates, but smaller content creators are a different story.
@jack Smaller content creators, I throw them a couple bucks on Patreon and keep blocking the ads. They often have no control over what the ads are, so the ads are still usually scams regardless of conglomerate or smol bean.
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@Infrogmation No. And if I'm really required to view the site, the nag popup gets nuked too.
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@Infrogmation We hate ads! We hate paywalls! Hey, why have so many journalists lost their jobs? Why is there only cheap AI slop left?
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@Infrogmation I don't know how anyone surfs the web anymore without an ad blocker. Its lunacy out there. H NO!
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@Infrogmation my website: "oh no, it looks like you don't have an ad blocker installed! you better go fix that, please! I can wait, go do it now"
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@Infrogmation kthxbai
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Worst part? They could totally show ads without trackers through their own servers and my tracker blocker (I don't run a fucking ad blocker) can't stop them.
Hell, I'd even be good with that. Show me the damn ads.
They. Just. Won't.
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@Infrogmation It's an instant back button for me.
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@Infrogmation websites that do that instantly become entirely optional to me tbh. I could probably hack my way there by having javascript disabled and/or deleting the right elements, but frankly there are enough other things to do in the world and in the end 99% of the internet is optional, and it deserves to feel optional when it does this
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Yeah at that point I'm just gonna leave.
