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“The Internet Is Unusable Without Ad Block”

Monday, March 18th, 2024

Here’s a rant from Charles White, AKA Cr1TiKaL, AKA penguinz0, about the pain of using the web without an ad-blocker.

I have dialed in my ad-blocker so that the only time I see the damn things is when using my iPhone, when they make some sites unusable.

  • “There’s a few things that everyone knows human beings can’t live without water, air, a nice smile. But there’s actually something that’s often overlooked that’s a necessity for life on this planet, and it’s an ad blocker when using the worldwide web.”
  • He made the mistake of turning off adblock to look at something…and unleashed an unspeakable horror!
  • “It’s just a massive headache, just this visual nuisance, all this clutter with an inundation of ads that seems like it’s some kind of scene from a 90s movie where you get hacked, where it just has, like, ‘Virus Detected!'”
  • “If you try and watch a video on some of these mainstream media sites, you get an ad every 2 or 3 seconds, and I’m not exaggerating. I don’t mean you get a banner ad, I mean you get a full 20 to 30 second video ad that pauses your video to play that ad. So a 2-minute video that I was trying to watch about a bobblehead heist ended up taking over 10 minutes, and I still didn’t even finish the video.”
  • “It is absurd, it’s unusable.”
  • “I would argue it’s like a basic human right at this point to have an ad blocker when using the internet. It is that fucking atrocious.”
  • He then demonstrates, and it’s every bit as horrifying as described. “This can’t be legal.”
  • He mentions YouTube’s war on ad-blockers, which I seem to have defeated with a combination of scripts.
  • Which sites do you particularly find unusable without adblock?