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by Kiro
4364 days ago
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Every day I hear about sites being broken for people with AdBlock. Yesterday a friend couldn't complete his buy at a online ticket agency due to AdBlock. The problem is that you never know if the site is broken or if it's due to AdBlock and most of the times you don't even realize it (especially true for people who are not power users). |
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This is particularly sad because those people are also the ones who are the most easily misled into getting bitten by ad-originated malware and thus the ones who will derive the most benefit from AdBlock. Power users who know and use AdBlock would be also far less likely to fall for such deception.
There's one decision that is clear when using the Internet: either you can learn enough to be able to take control of your browsing experience, or you can remain complacent and be controlled by the entities who will manipulate you to their satisfaction. I've chosen the former and wish more people would too.
Personally I find that just having JS off by default cuts out a huge amount of the crap on most pages (including ads) and don't need more than that + a HOSTS file to kill off the rest, but this is unfortunately a setup that is probably unusable for the (current) "average user".