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> The voice of "those who care" has always been a minority

To add to this, people who cares most powerfully had probably switched to alternative, open source, software solutions. This leaves the remaining group with less "care" on average so fewer would complain. Kinda like evaporative cooling.


I'm in East Bay, can I have a link?



So, are there anyone already doing this? From the attitude towards Comcast, it looks like there will be lots of funding from people dying to get a better alternative.


>As a reader, I am annoyed that Medium puts two dick bars on the page so it is hard to read.

This, I remember blocking those bars a month ago with uBlockOrigin. It was very, very annoying the first time around now that you reminded me.


Is this libreboot friendly?


Can you link to the vid that got you fired?



I don't use those.


Are there tells of race, sex discrimination?


Facebook was already in trouble for allowing people to place ads to whites only for housing - that is against the law in the USA. And after being informed of it - despites thousands of software engineers - Facebook was not capable or not willing to change it. https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-disc...


Anyone else experiencing some crazy lay with the site?


Is there much different between uBlock origin vs Ad Block Plus?


Yes, Adblock Plus lets website operators pay them money to be whitelisted, if the ads comply with the "Acceptable Ads" policy.


adblock plus is commercial operated and is paid by advertisers to get whitelisted, akin to an extorsion mafia business. It's an ad blocker coming with tainted default settings. It used to significantly impact performances (not sure if this is still the case).

ublock origin is a one man personal project to improve his online browsing experience that he shared with the public and has become the goto reference. It has no whitelist or acceptable ads policy, is a general purpose blocker (blocks trackers, remote fonts, etc.) coming with sane default settings. It does not have the same performance issues adblock plus has.

In short: ditch adblock plus and switch to ublock origins.

You'll find more details here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock


"Unexpected results: Adblock plus does not help with system resource utilisation"

https://twitter.com/adildean/status/936183316134416384


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