People who know me know that i hate advertizing. Ads on websites, Ads on (paid) TV, Ads on Youtube, Ads in movies, Ads EVERYWHERE. Ads, ads, ads.

So i installed ad-blockers. Fuck the free internet. I hate ads. And then i found this article from 2023. So apparently i am not alone:

I block ads
I block ads in the browser.
I block ads at the DNS level.
I block analytics, metrics, reporting and diagnostic logging.
I block programmatic pleas to disable ad-blocking.
I block the ping attribute on URLs.
I block tracking beacons.
I strip UTM campaign tags.
I unshorten URLs.
I block the page visibility API.
I stop videos from autoplaying.
I block prompts to install your app.
I block all cookies that aren’t strictly required for your site to function.
I opt out of allowing apps to ask to track me.
I filter sponsored content out of the RSS feeds I follow.
I block email pixel trackers.
I provide a masked email address.
I unsubscribe from your mailing list (and block your address if I can’t).
I don’t answer the phone unless you’re in my contacts.
I block and report SMS messages.
I pay a company to wrangle data brokers.
I throw your physical mail in the recycling without opening it and unsubscribe from it when I can.
I block ads, and you should too.

Let the products sell themselves Fuck advertising. Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed.