[draw_down]

Once, years ago, I did not see a bug on the site of the company I worked for, because the ad blocker I was using with my browser masked the bug. Further, I reasoned that since we made part of our money from ads, I should not use an ad blocker and I stopped. Plus I thought I should see the web "as it really is".

Now I think those are really dumb ideas, plus I don't work for a company that makes money from ads. It's basically an arms race now, websites do insane things because their stupid fucking A/B tests ticked up .001 percent. Then the rest of them throw up modals (and whatever other garbage) because everyone else is doing it.

The real, actual web, as it really is, it's a disaster now. Sometimes I open a web page and forget about it, then minutes later it just begins blaring audio for some video ad that I can't even see because it's been scrolled offscreen. Toilet world.