[trqx]

A common behavior I witness, is people using ad/tracker blockers such as ublock origin and/or umatrix and yet continue to consult websites that makes use of those trackers. Worse, they link those sites to other people that might not make use of those blockers. They don't think much of it, but ain't that evil?

Most of the times they don't even notice anymore that trackers were blocked on the page they consult.

Just look at links posted here on HN, most are of hostile websites.

I'd love to see a browser extension more radical: if it detects such third party scripts or cookies it simply stop loading the page and display a message explaining why instead.

Someone sends you a link to an article on cnn.com? Answer with this message telling why you won't consult it.

Going further: the extension attempts to extract the content, strip it of anything useless (some js libs works OK for such tasks), and share this version with others using this extension.

[metalliqaz]

I don't know what I would read all day if I had that extension installed. There'd be nothing left.

Classic quote, semi-relevant: "I'm pretty sure that if you took all the porn off the internet there would only be one site left and it would be called 'bring back the porn'" -Dr Cox

[Daycrawler]

Why stopping going to the sites? The point of blockers is specifically to make them harmless.

[trqx]

So they stop doing arm to others.

Once most websites understand it is not viable to attempt to mess with their own visitors, browsers could block the remaining ones by default?

[IncRnd]

That may be, but I'm happy that my blocker stopped 25 scripts/ads/sites from loading at this articles page!