Comment by encom
1 year ago
>They are more like a picket fence, than a fortification with barbed wire and all that.
I disagree. I consider an adblocker (Ublock specifically plus Cookie AutoDelete) like a condom for my web browser. The name adblocker is really a misnomer, since it blocks much more nefarious things like tracking and fingerprinting. The name comes from a time when the internet was much less hostile and adversarial towards its users. Additionally, browsing the internet in the EU is a miserable experience because of unrelenting and useless cookie popups, made worse when one manages cookies with CAD.
If all I had to deal with was just ads, at a reasonable volume, I wouldn't care so much.
I run ublock origin and noscript. So, my way of looking at it might be very influenced by the software I use.
But I think of these as pretty different use-cases. It is better not to run JavaScript at all from malicious sites, I think I put most of your “condom” use-case in there. Ublock is just there to make the site pretty.