Post #3866554
2026-07-16 12:03 UTC
@LillyHerself@mastodon.social Believe it or not, I do much of my regular browsing in a virtual machine that has no ad blocker installed. I do it to see how the other half lives and what new fresh hell there is out there. It's shocking how many blogs and "news" sites out there are pushing countless ads, videos, pop-ups, etc, so much so that if you let them all load the page is still loading new content a minute or two later. It's almost like the people cramming the sites with this junk never actually try to visit their own sites.
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@Spartan_1986@infosec.exchange 2026-07-16 19:32
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @LillyHerself@mastodon.social There was a time in my youth when the advertising industry was imminently respectable. They worked hard to tailor ad campaigns to their target audience in pleasing and attractive ways. Hell, some jingles from those times are culturally significant! When the Internet came along, it continued to be that way for a time, until men of lesser talent realized that quantity has a money earning potential as great as quality and they now had the medium that would support the wholesale enshittification of a once honorable profession. Thanks Google.