| I use an ad-blocker for blocking the ads, but also blocking the potential feed of malware and viruses and various other electronic parasites that go along with the online advertising industry. If it was clear cool water, I'd be much more OK with it. But it's a steaming, bubbling, toxic, green/brown lumpy sludge that I refuse to let near my network. I also don't think the green/brown lumpy sludge should be foisted upon the poor, but there are some rich folk that seem to have decided that it's OK to do so, and, confusingly-but-maybe-obviously, there ain't no government that's even tried to say that maybe that's not OK. The FBI has even recommended the use of ad blockers to improve online safety. https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-recommends-ad-blockers-cybe... And the NSA and CIA seem to agree https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-nsa-and-cia-use-ad-block... Not using an ad-blocker is no longer an option for me. After experiencing the web with one, browsing without one makes me want to never browse again. |