That's all an ad-blocker is: a way for users to respond to a server whose opening bid is, "How about you give me all your data and let me take over your computer in exchange for showing you this page?" with "How about 'Nah?'"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah
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Cory Doctorow
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2026-06-12 20:55:53 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…nx3z
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