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The Internet: "If you're not paying, you're the product, not the customer." The Internet: "Ads suck! We're going to block them."

Content Providers: "OK, we're going to charge to pay for our bills then."

The Internet: "HOW DARE YOU?"

I think you forgot this: /s

Just pay for the service. Then you can run all the blockers you want.

If you think businesses have sunk this much money and effort into AI and didn’t do a cost-benefit analysis that stretched out decades, you are being naive or disingenuous.

Are you kidding? We literally just watched the same bubble and burst in companies that rushed to get their piece of the Metaverse and NFT cash grab. I worked at a SaaS company that decided to add AI features because it was in the news and Azure offered it as a service. There was zero financial analysis done, just like for every other feature they added

I'm sure Microsoft has a plan since they invested heavily. But even Google is playing catch-up like they did with GCP.

Turnstile was announced over a year ago.

Doesn't the fact that every Windows PC ships with Edge and yet Chrome has 70% market share on desktop make a case against the idea that "defaults are everything"?

I don't know about evil, but my results have been filled with AI generated crap sites lately. I don't know if others are doing any better filtering them out, but it is making me think to look elsewhere besides ddg

While that definition sounds ideal, I think most people with side hustles are still working for someone, just with flexible hours. DoorDash, Uber, transcription, etc.

Honestly, the thing keeping me from rolling it out to my family is that it isn't easy to override when you do want to see a site. Folks understand turning off uBlock Origin (or clicking proceed). I've only used Pi-Hole and NextDNS, but they really need a browser extension that will provide a better error message and an option to allow with a DNS cache clear.

Have you tried other private DNS servers? Curious if your Internet provider is blocking specific servers or DNS over HTTPS.

it means you can’t block ads without violating the DMCA. Browsers can have adblocker extensions, apps cannot (unless you hack them.)

I imagine this is just going to lead to more people using DNS ad blockers. My phone literally can't access your ad server, sorry.