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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, it's totally fashionable to give people who still somehow use Microsoft Internet Explorer scare pop-ups, so why not this?

If you don't run an ad blocker, your browser just isn't safe. This was the security community consensus 15 years ago. Shit sure got worse since then!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And now you got the likes of google and YouTube that prevent things from working if you do run an ad blocker

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They try, which ended up just making a certain adblocker much more effective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It will be a continuous battle. But, eventually, one or the other will lose