Ad-blocking went from being an ideological choice, to a personal secrecy-preserving decision, to a brain-jacking-casino blocker, to helping prevent the destruction of democracy itself, to now, being an absolute imperative for cybersecurity reasons.1

Online advertising and the associated adtech companies are a cancer and they need to be dealt with.

Do not feel any shame blocking ads anywhere and everywhere you can. Tell the advertisers to use non-intrusive ad systems or fuck off. To the advertisers: you know you don’t have to use their rigged racket.2

Bonus, you get to take part in the downfall of the odious creeps like Zuckerberg.

  1. https://mackeeper.com/blog/suspicious-ads-on-google-which-contain-harmful-content-for-mac-users/ ↩︎

  2. https://www.epceurope.eu/post/european-commission-publishes-their-decision-on-the-google-ad-tech-investigation-epc-calls-for-stro ↩︎