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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are they, though? I’ve been using Firefox and uBlock Origin for years and I’ve not had an issue other than needing to manually update my filters three times since this started.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Yeah, however "worse" it is for adblock users, it can't compare to how awful the ads are.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Exactly. I've spent 15 seconds of my life overcoming this three times. Click, click, click.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd be surprised how sensitive normies are regarding 3 additional clicks.
For us tech literate folks it's a regular sunday but they are literally raging internally if they need another 5 clicks more than usual.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lol quite true

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The proven reason why you can't beat crowd sourcing in the millions.