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Enshittification
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I wonder how much more they need to do before more people start using tools like uBlock and such. The internet is practically unusable without it, and I'm not using hyperbole--most websites have so much garbage on them that you literally can't read them without an ad blocker and/or reading mode.
Since Google removed support for ad blockers, I convinced my wife to switch to Firefox. She noticed a huge improvement immediately, especially on mobile.
I went as far as installing network level ad blocking on both my home network as well as devices.
Recently, I've had a few friends over whom are... not as technologically adept. They were incredibly surprised that after joining my guest WiFi, suddenly they were able to browse most websites almost completely unobstructed. No ads, no popups, no BS. Aside from the usual cookie agreements, of course.
If you can, help your friends, install ad blockers for them, make their internet experience better. Even DNS level adblocking is relatively easy to set up, and the only thing this hurts is the unscrupulous megacorporations that want to milk you for every single bit of personal information to sell.
My friend hates it, because it breaks some sites and services. Everytime he's here he says "oh, right.. you got that blocker thing on the network", because he hit a snag once again.
I'm not sure what he does or how he uses the internet, but I don't even notice that it's there.
Pihole is your friend.
Pihole is great, except my wife can't turn it off if it breaks something (at least not without Extra work to set it up on my end). And when she leaves our wifi, she's stuck with ads again.
That's why I typically recommend end-device adblockers. Easier for most users to use and configure.
I get it. I had complaints from someone in my house too because they wanted the ads. I tried to explain that it was more than just ads but they didn't care. I whitelisted their devices and let it go. There are also some connected devices that need to phone home in order to operate. These get reluctantly whitelisted too.