It really has. Ublock is so versatile, too. It can block pretty much anything. I loathe using browsers without it installed.
it’s about to get EVEN MORE unusable, because increasingly the alleged/so-called “content” behind the nag-wall is utterly mindless AI-generated sludge.
Also so many sites that haven’t given in to the ad content farm / have found it to not be worth it are now just putting up paywalls… which I’m okay with in principle, but in reality I can’t afford to subscribe to 20 different sites I only read occasionally
There’s going to need to be a new model of revenue sharing somehow at some point. I wouldn’t mind paying for one subscription that gave me broad access, but the problem then is the control that gives whoever collects the money (e.g. YouTube Premium)
A perfect example for why having an adblocker is a necessity these days.
I first used uBlock origin 2 years ago and I will never go back to browsing without an adblocker
Chances are, unless you made the website yourself, you don’t know who made certain decisions; who did specific work; how many people were actually available to do that work; how much pressure from shareholders there was to maximize income at the expense of user experience; any fiduciary challenges faced; or how often you had to overcome the urge to make a worthwhile product to further your goal of fitting as much ad space into a single page as possible (this one is HUGE).
the even more disturbing trend of late is that
- nobody made any decisions
- nobody did any specific work
- nobody was available to do the work
because an AI generated the entire content on the basis of an off-hand suggestion plugged in by a Search API directly reading some user’s query and shitting out a vapid, insipid extrapolation of that query in the rough shape of an article on-the-spot and brute force slamming SEO algorithms with keywords so it’s the first ten items you see when the search concludes.
I don’t get why some people just refuse to use ad-blockers. They work absolutely flawlessly and I have not encountered an experience such as this in almost a decade.
Ublock origin
Just click to open directly in Firefox, it’s an extra step but well worth it
Click where? If this is from an in-app web browser, like Google News for instance, there’s no way to link it back to Firefox AFAIK.
