I recently came face to face with an internet problem I didn’t even know existed, because for me (and probably you), it doesn’t—but it does for thousands or millions of people around the world.https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07/securing-sites-made-them-less-accessible/ …
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Without https, my ISP injects crazy amount of ads into every page. Older phones die trying to handle so much injected javascript+ads. With https, ad injection is prevent and things work. I think http+cache-proxies need a rethink for the new data-mining ads world!
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How about using an ad blocker on your phones browser, like
@betterblocker ? Or a browser that does this by itself? Would that work for you?3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
TLS isn't the problem here, surveillance capitalism and our colonial approach to technology is. A tracker blocker will help (see https://observer.com/2016/10/aral-balkan-dokutech/ …) So will not seeing ‘the next billion’ as ‘the next billion we want to connect to our surveillance web’ but as people who…
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