#adblockers — Public Fediverse posts

🎩🤖 Oh, look! The wizard of social media can't conjure up his AI minions as fast as he hoped. 🚀✨ Apparently, #JavaScript and ad-blockers are more advanced than Zuck's AI ambitions. 😅🔧
https://www.reuters.com/business/zuckerberg-says-ai-agent-development-going-slower-than-expected-2026-07-02/ #wizardofsocialmedia #AIambitions #adblockers #technews #socialmedia #HackerNews #ngated

🎩🤖 Oh, look! The wizard of social media can't conjure up his AI minions as fast as he hoped. 🚀✨ Apparently, #JavaScript and ad-blockers are more advanced than Zuck's AI ambitions. 😅🔧
https://www.reuters.com/business/zuckerberg-says-ai-agent-development-going-slower-than-expected-2026-07-02/ #wizardofsocialmedia #AIambitions #adblockers #technews #socialmedia #HackerNews #ngated

Chrome tightens grip as ad blockers fade away
"Google presents te change as necessary upgrade to reduce security risks & technical complexity. Critics question whether limiting #adblockers also conveniently protects te firm's #advertising #revenues.🤦‍♂️ This irony is hard to ignore.. #Security experts hv long recommended ad blockers as a first line of defence against #malicious ads & #online #tracking"
👉 Will #governments stop forcing #Chrome down their citizens' throats?🤔
https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/tech/3271710/chrome-tightens-grip-as-ad-blockers-fade-away

Ah, the New York Times, valiantly fighting for democracy by... reminding us to enable #JavaScript and disable our ad blockers! Because clearly, the real threat to freedom is missing out on their precious banner ads. 📰🔒💰 #Priorities
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/world/americas/actually-democracy-dies-in-hr.html #NewYorkTimes #AdBlockers #DigitalDemocracy #MediaPriorities #InternetFreedom #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the New York Times, valiantly fighting for democracy by... reminding us to enable #JavaScript and disable our ad blockers! Because clearly, the real threat to freedom is missing out on their precious banner ads. 📰🔒💰 #Priorities
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/world/americas/actually-democracy-dies-in-hr.html #NewYorkTimes #AdBlockers #DigitalDemocracy #MediaPriorities #InternetFreedom #HackerNews #ngated

If we want a #free (in all ways) and #OpenInternet in the future...

NOW is the time to use #AI crawling blockers, #AdBlockers and block sites that are obviously AI generated.

NOW is the time to favor #HumanCreators, #ThinkCritically and decide with your #wallet.

Ask yourself: who benefits? Probably not you and I...

Don't fight each other... fight them.

#BoycottBillionaires #WhoBenefits #musk #bezos #altman #zuckerberg #nadella #cook

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If we want a #free (in all ways) and #OpenInternet in the future...

NOW is the time to use #AI crawling blockers, #AdBlockers and block sites that are obviously AI generated.

NOW is the time to favor #HumanCreators, #ThinkCritically and decide with your #wallet.

Ask yourself: who benefits? Probably not you and I...

Don't fight each other... fight them.

#BoycottBillionaires #WhoBenefits #musk #bezos #altman #zuckerberg #nadella #cook

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If we want a #free (in all ways) and #OpenInternet in the future...

NOW is the time to use #AI crawling blockers, #AdBlockers and block sites that are obviously AI generated.

NOW is the time to favor #HumanCreators, #ThinkCritically and decide with your #wallet.

Ask yourself: who benefits? Probably not you and I...

Don't fight each other... fight them.

#BoycottBillionaires #WhoBenefits #musk #bezos #altman #zuckerberg #nadella #cook

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If we want a #free (in all ways) and #OpenInternet in the future...

NOW is the time to use #AI crawling blockers, #AdBlockers and block sites that are obviously AI generated.

NOW is the time to favor #HumanCreators, #ThinkCritically and decide with your #wallet.

Ask yourself: who benefits? Probably not you and I...

Don't fight each other... fight them.

#BoycottBillionaires #WhoBenefits #musk #bezos #altman #zuckerberg #nadella #cook

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@cd0 Wow. What a horrible approach of #Digikey. If I have a #proxy, does that solve the problem ? Can I then leave all their tracker crap on and not care less? Or do I need a "quarantined" web session that I then toast? Or use #tails ? Or have I not understood? Why is this so hard? It is like when u go to a shop for cheese they say "No cheese unless you tell me the contents of your fridge and pantry". #adblockers #trackers

As a late Boomer, I am pretty desensitized to ads, having been involuntarily exposed to them my whole life. Pretty much all media has been unskippable ads for most of my life. So I do really appreciate skippable ads and my ad blocker here online.

I still run into many sites that still insist that I turn off my adblocker to see their content.

To the people who run those sites, I say this:

1. In most cases I simply assume your content is not actually good enough for me to bother. I'll just close the tab. Saves me time and you bandwidth, so maybe that is a win-win.

2. Even if I turned off my adblocker, there is no way in hell I will ever click on an online ad. It is bad enough when I search for something or read something that might be even vaguely commercial. Search for "<something> review" and for the next six months I will be bombarded by search results, promoted articles, promoted posts, etc for <something>. I can only imagine what a hellscape my online life would be if I actually was stupid enough to click on an ad.

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#Ads #OnlineAds #Enshittification #AdBlockers

As a late Boomer, I am pretty desensitized to ads, having been involuntarily exposed to them my whole life. Pretty much all media has been unskippable ads for most of my life. So I do really appreciate skippable ads and my ad blocker here online.

I still run into many sites that still insist that I turn off my adblocker to see their content.

To the people who run those sites, I say this:

1. In most cases I simply assume your content is not actually good enough for me to bother. I'll just close the tab. Saves me time and you bandwidth, so maybe that is a win-win.

2. Even if I turned off my adblocker, there is no way in hell I will ever click on an online ad. It is bad enough when I search for something or read something that might be even vaguely commercial. Search for "<something> review" and for the next six months I will be bombarded by search results, promoted articles, promoted posts, etc for <something>. I can only imagine what a hellscape my online life would be if I actually was stupid enough to click on an ad.

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#Ads #OnlineAds #Enshittification #AdBlockers

Has anyone created an anti AI blocklist yet for #UBlockOrigin and other #AdBlockers?

#AI #BlockAI #AntiAI

Has anyone created an anti AI blocklist yet for #UBlockOrigin and other #AdBlockers?

#AI #BlockAI #AntiAI

so is nobody gonna point out how js bundlers and fucked up web #frontEnd tooling is slowly killing #webExtensions and #userScripts by making custom code injection a pain in the ass?

i mean, this is all the same people who'd love for the likes of #adBlockers to also not work so it's probably a Feature for them but still

just waiting for the day they somehow manage to fuck up css injection. we can still work our way around auto generated css-in-js class names and complex selectors. shadow dom, perhaps?