I have been using AdBlock as an extension in Chrome for many years but someone advised me to switch to uBlock Origin Lite the other day.

Quite impressed with it.

It blocks YouTube ads very nicely whereas AdBlock was not filtering out those annoying brief ads that pop up every now and then.

I use Opera which blocks ads by default. Sometimes sites refuse me, and I use Firefox instead. Not a big hassle.

To be honest, we have a choice between an internet of "registration only", or corporate sites who effectively advertise for themselves, OR small fry sites which are just trying to get enough hits to some day be commercial.

I'm quite happy to have most sites funded by advertising. Happy shoppers are subsidizing mean old fundamentalists like myself.

Running a website takes money (or skilled hours which are equivalent to money.) I dodge advertising when possible, but take it on the chin when I must. Without advertising the internet would be a much smaller place.

Setanta wrote on Sep 26^th, 2024 at 9:06pm:


Well me too, but it had to happen.

Imagine the billion idiots all crammed into AARPANET. The internet HAD to expand, and now the idiots who just want to buy something, are distracted from "the serious stuff."

The internet is not perfect, but I'm suspicious of anyone who wants it to be perfect. They want LESS of something, but the beauty and the future of the internet is in providing EVER MORE.