Adblock has left me relatively blind to the sinister creep of adspace into every facet of online interaction. I occasionally see someone's screen or use a work PC with no adblock and get a glimpse of commercialised digital hell, but by and large I've been protected from the worst of aggressive online advertising.
As globohomo has determined that you don't in fact deserve to have a high quality browsing experience on the Internet, free from irritating advertisements at every single possible opportunity, there seems to be a push to mitigate adblocking software and I'm beginning to actually appreciate just how bad online advertising has become. It is absolutely fucking obnoxious, it is ALWAYS aggressive and disruptive to your online experience, and more often than not paid and premium services don't fully remove you from the advertising ecosystem either.
I know this is no profound revelation, but this has crept up on me and I'm fucking horrified.
dick flattening enthusiast /
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2023-08-13 16:48:05
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