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   Trevorgoodchild (trevorgoodchild@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 22:32:20 JST Trevorgoodchild

   • Daniel Supernault

   @dansup literally uses a web browser with basic ad blocking freely available for like 20 years.

   Advertising and brands are what ruined the web. Let them all go to Threads.

   I don’t want to follow McDonalds to see them go “LOL McRib is back”.

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     Zelda 🎀 The Spiky Baddie (thezeldazone@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 22:32:39 JST Zelda 🎀 The Spiky Baddie

     • Daniel Supernault

     @dansup I'm ad-free on Zelda.Zone now and it's nice, but ads are kind of depressing because like, it never needed to be THIS bad. Just like Flash, which was basically killed...well half because adobe sucks and never fixed it, but half because it just got so bad and misused people associated it with the bad uses. Flash ads never should have existed.

     ...probably still safer and faster than plenty of modern tracker ads tho

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     Chris @ 🦣 (tenzochris@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 22:33:00 JST Chris @ 🦣

     • Daniel Supernault

     @dansup I’m not sure how many folks would be game for using a web browser that injected ads into their experience.

     (The popularity of ad-blocking extensions for browsers would tend to undermine how big a gotcha this post is, either.)

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     Lefteris T. (lefteristrip23@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 22:36:21 JST Lefteris T.

     • Daniel Supernault

     @dansup the problem is that most ads are bad taste, ugly and annoying. Like temu, mobile games and stuff like that. If it was something like sponsors, then maybe