Side note: Does anybody have an effective way of blocking this stupid Admiral BS, I’ve gotten it to a point where it consistently gives me the bypass option but I’d prefer it to go away entirely

  • Limonene@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I’ve never seen this. Just checked ZDNet’s website and it didn’t show anything about my ad blocker.

    I block ads because they are such a distraction that I can’t read, and because auctioning off arbitrary javascript to the highest bidder is just asking to be hacked. If ads were not animated, and had no external or obfuscated javascript, I might not block them.

    But as is, I’d rather close the tab than enable ads.

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      18 hours ago

      It might have to do with the aggressiveness that I block ADs, I have ad blocking at the device and network levels. Since I also have a way to over-powered pfSense server I pretty much don’t care about all those giant dnsbl lists that have the “Performance hit warning” lmao