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1. Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺 (bjoern@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 02:03:08 EST Björn Schießle 🌍 🇪🇺

   These days I tried to switch from uBlock to Privacy Badger because I like the idea not to block advertisement in general but only the harmful stuff. But now it happens quite often that websites detect Privacy Badger and show a pop-up every few seconds. So I'm back from blocking some advertisement to blocking all advertisement. Don't think it is better, but it seems like this is what publishers prefer these days. #adblocker #Web #privacy

   1. St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2017 09:45:34 EST St John's Evil Twin

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      @bjoern Don't have any qualms about blocking ads. Ads *are* harmful — they clog your connection, they're intrusive, they're distracting, and they have an impact on your psyche. You're not obliged to load them, even for websites you want to support. What I do is buy something. If I visit a website all the time and they make a book or an album or a fluffy pink walrus or whatever, I'll buy their thing because I want to support them. Of course my flat winds up crammed with fluffy pink walruses, but then you know what it's not full of? Ads :P