@thomasfuchs 5. You're mitigating the #1 insertion vector for malicious software nowadays

@thomasfuchs ain' that the truth?!

@thomasfuchs V. good.

My own earlier take:

Forbes asks: Why do programmers hate advertising so much?

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/24107v/forbes_asks_why_do_programmers_hate_advertising/

@thomasfuchs It's absolutely ridiculous how many ads and tracking there are, especially on news sites. I haven't set up PiHole yet but I heard that as much as 50% of their traffic was cut because they were just ads and tracking. Fuck out of here.

@thomasfuchs Running NoScript is fun too. It's crazy how much 3rd party stuff everyone has on their site.

@thomasfuchs Upon reading this, I realized that techbro is merely entrepreneurshipbro and that both are just selfish greed-heads. I know too many "entrepreneurs" who have no value outside of their flawed moral structure. It's a weird time to own a business and not be a millionaire.

@thomasfuchs not to mention that less wasted data and bandwidth and time.

@thomasfuchs I've installed a pihole at home, we don't need browser extensions, no more ads on ANY devices, our network is clean AF and we couldn't live without it !

@thomasfuchs

Any sympathy I might have had for Web3.0 evaporated when I am forced to operate on a 20 Gb tether and will get charged $5 per gigabyte that goes over quota. 😡 Websites should not have a minimum size of 0.1Gb each.

@thomasfuchs The reason why I refused to work as frontend dev for BILD.
Their code is a mess and I didn't want to go down the elevator professionally.
That's what I told them first ;-)

@thomasfuchs @AlexGizis No need to be apologetic about running a ad blocker!! I simply stop visiting places that require you to turn off your ad blocker.

@thomasfuchs True