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Hacker News upset that Google is going to turn off ad blocking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430 … Few mention complexity of the web; nobody points out that if it weren’t so insanely complicated, it wouldn’t require a huge industrial effort to build a browser, so there would be no problem.
(I think it is bad to turn off ad blocking, and if this happens it will result in me using the web much less than I do today ... which is probably good in the end. But if you are going to solve the problem, solve the problem.)
(If you are one of these Maoist Che Chavismo “we must destroy capitalism” types, probably the best thing you can do is figure out how to simplify software, so that anyone besides Google is capable of making software 20 years from now.)
(When I tried Firefox some months ago, it couldn’t even scroll a web page without lagging very hard, so I am not sure why anyone thinks this is going to be a solution).
they aren't disabling ad blocking, instead they're replacing the API used for ad blocking, forcing everyone to rewrite their ad blockers
These things always happen one step at a time.
The somewhat surprising thing is that the web is getting worse again. Like in the early-ish days there were popups, popunders, audio that played in the background etc. Then adblockers came and made the web a lot better for years. Even google was partly responsible with their
smaller, less intrusive ads. But now it’s bad again. News sites are especially egregious with autoplay vids that follow you down the page, slow loading elements that cause the formatting/scrolling to jump all over the place while reading, nag screens for newsletters. It’s shit
I started using adblock years ago because of some notorious sites that would play over 50 or 100 videos that were ads and they would bog my computer down because of this. I couldn't load the site without it trying to kill my computer because of this.
WebAssembly backend for JAI incoming!
I'm not using ad blocking and it results in me visiting less often or avoiding particular web sites riddled with ads. So maybe turning off ad blocking will result in better web design overall (as more visitors will choose their destinations based on ads quantity and quality).
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