More and more websites have anti-adblock measures these days, some going so far as to tell you to uninstall your ad blocker altogether. I understand the impulse, but you are basically telling your users to meaningfully reduce their security for your benefit.

@rain there are sites that I'll disable my adblocker for, but the ones who complain loudest tend to be the ones I wouldn't trust. Sites without surveillance can show me ads, I'm happy to support them in that small way. But, very few sites are valuable enough for me to accept being tracked across the internet by Google, Meta, etc.

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@swelljoe @rain I don't block ads, but l do block privacy and security risks. It's up to the each site whether their ads reach me.

So when a site tells me I need to disable my "ad blocker", it speaks volumes.

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