14 Feb
2025
14 Feb
'25
6:46 p.m.
On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:00:07 -0600
cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote:
I can't believe people do use it any more without
filtering. I've
used an ad-blocking web browser for some years but I occasionally see
the real thing when setting up a new machine. Absurd.
It really is astonishing how bad it's gotten - fully the equal of the
early '00s when sites might just spawn a dozen pop-ups and only one of
the major browsers let you block them, only now there's a pile of JS
mining crypto in the background, to boot :/ Been running with NoScript
and an ad-blocker as my standard configuration for many, many years
now, but it's always sobering to get a look at what other people see...
14 Feb
14 Feb
9:11 p.m.
Not sure where you are going. 😊 I use Safari on my iPad and Firefox on my PC. I have no
real problem with pop-ups.
9:58 p.m.
I forget how bad things are without any adblockers, such as almost the
entire first page of google results are paid/spam results vs the actual
search. I don't see that with the filters I have on so I get to naively
sift through the more and more incorrect opinions to my question, but at
least I can keep ads and false results to a minimum.
I've been using noscript for such a long time but honestly it just breaks
every website and I have to play whack-a-mole with 30 different URLs to get
things to work right, but I still use it with ublock origin and have a
mostly good experience.
On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM Donald Whittemore via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Not sure where you are going. 😊 I use Safari on my
iPad and Firefox on my
PC. I have no real problem with pop-ups.
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