• fluckx@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What could go wrong when you let an ad company dictate the browser standards/rules.

    I know we have Firefox and some forks like librewolf, but percentage wise it feels like a lost battle ( even if I am on Firefox ).

    If only people switched en masse to Firefox for the ad blocker. Wouldn’t that be something… One big collective FU to Google.

    Oh well. One can dream I guess.

    • LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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      3 months ago

      There comes a point where one realizes that those around you cannot be relied upon to leverage solutions. Psychopaths get ahead because they’re willing to play dirty. So much of the world can be summed up as large swaths of population being induced to behave or think certain ways by psychopathic manipulators.

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      3 months ago

      The average Joe or Jane have no idea about ad blocking possibilities. They think ads are just the normal price you pay for surfing the web.

      I have even shown people the difference between their browsing experience and mine, and still they can’t be arsed to install an ad-blocker.

      But then again, they use tiktok and Instagram and all the other brain-numbing shit out there.