Post #3380001

2026-06-23 06:22 UTC

Setting up a desktop system today for some remote work and in the 30mins before installing an adblocker I see how intolerable the www has become. On several sites the content was swarmed upon to the point of being almost imperceptible. Packs of autoplaying attention-leeches, popups of video with over-gesticulating wow-faced cruft, floating footers swollen with ticker-tape inanity. The CO2e & cognitive-load savings provided by a simple extension like uBlockOrigin are not to be underestimated.

Replies (5)

@clonedhuman@mastodon.social 2026-06-23 10:09

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social Yeah, it's absolutely disgusting--we've been fully infested by money-grubbing maggots. I just can't tolerate advertisements any longer--it's like someone you never liked in the first place just being aggressively stupid at you in public. Still spreading the gospel of ublock origin to everyone I know.

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@FlipperPA@fosstodon.org 2026-06-23 10:11

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social I built a free, open-source Chromium reader extension that eliminates all distractions, which works great with uBlock. I use it with the Helium browser. Give it a whirl! https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/library-reader/mjpdekbomfibfifomicibenpofdkkacc

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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-06-23 11:09

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social Same feeling here, every time I install/use a new PC. Now my workflow is: 1. installing a default clean browser (once Firefox, now Librewolf, to avoid slop), 2. be sure to have uBlock Origin. Then all the rest of the clean up and setup.

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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange 2026-06-23 11:17

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social Even Chromium based browsers work better with uBlock Origin Lite. Firefox deserves uBlock Origin and a lot of additional configure to refuse acceptance of unwanted content 😟

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@lambic@social.linux.pizza 2026-06-23 11:24

@JulianOliver@mastodon.social yeah i had to factory reset my phone recently and forgot to install an adblocker for the first little while and it was horrible

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