#may avoid google's aggressive data tracking/harvesting

[cheerfulomelette]

The reason adblocks became universal wasn't just because ads were an intrusive blight on user experience (autoplaying video and music! Cardinal sins of online ux) but because they could and would autoinstall/aurorun malware, like those ads that try to trick you into interacting with it only to launch a website or take you to the app store page

Adblocking is permanently etched into my brain as not just a privacy thing but a security thing

in b4 95% of all websites in june 2024 announce that "for security" they will only work with browsers that use manifest v3