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yallerdawg

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4. What happens now is...

Reply to hunter (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 13, 2018, 07:18 AM

Jul 2018

all these ads start to load, then popups, then videos - the screen jumps around, you click on an item or link and the screen jumps - and you just went somewhere you have no idea...

I have some sites where there are over 100 ads and tracking apps per page (I pay my ISP $120.00 a month for two 'lines' at our house)!

My free ad blocker now offers multi-layer blocking - allowing unobtrusive ads, social media tracking, whitelisting sites we want to support - two click disabling of blocker when popular sites 'insist' you must see ads.

Now we have "Sponsored" feeds in our "news and highlights." You have to click on them, and they don't block.

Commercialization finds a way.

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Is the commercialization of the internet... [View all] yallerdawg Jul 2018 OP

I'm wondering what ads your thread will cause to appear off to the right hand side of the page. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2018 #1

I will have no idea. yallerdawg Jul 2018 #2

uBlock Origin hunter Jul 2018 #3

What happens now is... yallerdawg Jul 2018 #4