Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads - eviltoast
  • alphabethunter@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    My boss once asked me to take a look at her computer that was super slow and barely functional, and the thing that surprised me the most was that she had been running Chrome without any adblock since ever, and when I asked her about adblock, she answered: “adwhat?”. Mind you that she’s still a millennial, and only a few years older than me.

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      3 months ago

      I had to use my parents desktop a when I flew home for a bit.

      Surfing the internet is fucking stressful if you don’t have adblocks. So overstimulating!!

      I’m also on windows and for some reason I had to use Edge.

      The Edge home screen is the VERY REASON google killed it back in the 90s. Clean clear search screen. Allows you to think what you are doing with out getting bombarded with ads and posts and ads and markets. Reminded me how terrible the search experience was back in Alta Vista and Yahoo days