12/24/2023 0 Comments Adblock chromium edge![]() Unfortunately the cost for all this convenience is our privacy, many websites use annoying and intrusive ads, they often prevent you from focusing on the content, they consume bandwidth and CPU resources, some websites also have popups which are incredibly annoying, not all websites use intrusive ads. Or how much access to other cultures Google translate brings!!! Can you even imagine how hard it was to read a German newspaper for a non-native before Google Translate!?!? Gotta appreciate Google. ![]() Or how much Google Maps makes our lives easier. People have to take a step back and appreciate the incredible leap in quality of life that stuff like the transition to subscription free music streaming was. I think modern privacy zealots really lack perspective on the amazing value that these companies give us without charging a fee. Anyone remembers the world before Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and Google Translate? Fgs, before YouTube we had to pirate music on virus-ridden crap platforms such as Limewire and the likes! Do people remember how much browsers sucked before Chrome? Sure, I think there should be some restriction to what ads can do (for instance, no popup windows or overlapping floating elements WHAT-SO-EVER) but we gotta stop being hippie commies and think we deserve all these services entirely for free. We get these awesome products like everything google offers without a fee and all that is expected from us is enduring some ads. Yes, like the guy who got downvoted before me said, I think ad blocking is unfair. ![]()
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