Next, give warnings that Chrome and Edge are not supported browsers.
This technically makes this an ad for adblockers. Which, by enabling an adblocker, will disable said ad.
Make it infinitely more obnoxious, 90’s era blinky text, gifs, auto play music… “You wouldn’t be seeing or hearing any of this bullshit if you ran an ad blocker”
Hot take: I don’t want / need more people to use adblock.
Right now it is in a good position where the numbers just are not that high for advertisers to really give a hoot. Yes there is the ocasional shit like with YouTube, but the thing is - they are not really trying, they only put enough effort in to inconvenience, hoping more people will drop blocking.
However, if more people start blocking, I think they will be forced to find more concrete solutions, like the whole DRM fiasco.
If ads were just ads, then sure. But now that they serve as trackers too, and are oftentimes hijacked by malware… yeah no, screw all ads.
Not joking, every time a website asks me to turn off my adblocker, I leave and put it on my blocklist so it never shows up again. Then I simply use their competition instead.
It’s ok.
Now come and check out your 1 out of 3 free blogpost of the month!
LETS GOOOOO
gets adware
Graham is awesome. I remember working with him 20 years ago as an ISV rep and he’s come such a long way.
I mean, it’s totally fashionable to give people who still somehow use Microsoft Internet Explorer scare pop-ups, so why not this?
If you don’t run an ad blocker, your browser just isn’t safe. This was the security community consensus 15 years ago. Shit sure got worse since then!
And now you got the likes of google and YouTube that prevent things from working if you do run an ad blocker
They try, which ended up just making a certain adblocker much more effective.
It will be a continuous battle. But, eventually, one or the other will lose
🕵️ hmmm, corpo shill has been here
Or someone who doesn’t like generic comments. You could paste half those on any comment chain. They’re the equivalent of an upvote but the commenters felt the need to say it instead. Good downvotes.
That or they’re downvoting low effort comments
I’m not sure how, but you can find their username on lemmy 💀
Yeah… don’t though. It is bad practice to target people like that
