• Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    A lot, starting with violent commercialization and how unusable it is without ublock. And not in the “oh it’s a lot of ads” meaning, more the “some ads will literally hostile takeover your screen and the only way out is to close the tab” kind

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      11 days ago

      how unusable it is without ublock

      I know an easy answer to this problem that will also improve a lot of your other internet browsing experience.

      I have literally very little idea of what the internet is like without ublock now, but every time I accidentally experience it, I have a violent negative reaction. It’s awful. It’s really the worst. Have you been to YouTube without it? Jesus Christ man. No thank you.

      What else? I don’t go to Fandom often or anything, but when I do visit it doesn’t bother me that there’s all sorts of awful stuff I am not seeing.

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        10 days ago

        Ditto. I used fandom yesterday for Terraria. Got my info in and out. No problem.

        I haven’t raw dogged the internet in several years. Always running ublock. Of your website hits me with that “disable your ad blocker” shit then I just try another site.

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      10 days ago

      “some ads will literally hostile takeover your screen and the only way out is to close the tab” kind

      not to challenge the fact that fandom is awful but I’ve just browsed a few fandom pages without adblock and all I see is a somewhat obstructive banner ad at the top but nothing I haven’t seen before