Gibibit

Why is “bots on Reddit” on the list

Yeah it makes sense from their point of view. I turned it around on them for the hell of it.

I use a degoogled CalyxOS phone so all those apps that load ads via Google services don’t even work, or they work and the ads don’t load haha. One caveat is that I can’t use paid apps either though, I’m not against those.

But yeah system wide blocking is definitely the most thorough method!

They got it the wrong way around. Visitors who use adblock are not “dark traffic”, the bullshit scripts and tracking they use are dark. The adblock users are actually the only clean traffic. The adblockers aren’t “brutal”, the people without blockers are being brutalized.

Seeing static banner ads on 2000s websites without popups or tracking: 🤷‍♂️

Blocking ads on Firefox after popups and other crap started: 😀

Browsing the internet on Android before I realised the browser supports addons: 🤮

Blocking ads and tracking on Android via uBlock origin and Privacy Badger: 😀👍

My feeling of guilt when scummy megacorporations miss out on ad revenue:

Just because it doesn’t have latest Android doesn’t mean it’s trash. And Fairphone also aims for 7 years support just like your Pixel example.

I started getting those daily a few years ago. It annoyed the crap out of me so I decided to use ringtones instead of vibration. Took a few weeks for the phantoms to get out of my leg.

Yeah how else are you gonna get there /s

Because the trend was detected via New York’s helpline.

On the contrary. The AI will be very thankful for the refined models that allow them to rip the arms off another humanoid :)