I’m already blocking it but manually unblocking stuff every time I visit a new webpage is getting kinda annoying. Does it make that much of a difference? Do you think it’s worth the hassle?
End of the day it kind of comes down to you. We’re typically trying to choose between privacy and functionality to get a good balance. But many companies have realised that they can wear you down if they try.
Think of the cookies law, it’s meant to make sure you can easily stop websites from using cookies to track you if that is your decision. Instead companies make it so toxic and hard that most people just click accept.
For me, I’m even more likely to use blocks on websites that try to get around it, because I thinkt they deserve revenue even less. But for you it might make a world of difference to just be able to open up a page without hassle and be less annoying then an actual ad.
Well if you already have a habit of manually doing it, seems good. You could always just block frames by default and manually block scripts when needed/you’d otherwise do it and unblock frames the few times it fucks up a site.
I take a perverse sort of pleasure in trimming everything except for the content from a webpage. I love to see how clean it looks, just black text on a white page, no videos, no social links, no headers, or footers, or navbars, or stickies, or comments, or sidebars, or whatever the fuck “div-of-nth-type-9” is, or- everything goes but the actual content. I love blocking the cookie popups; “consent banners” as if they aren’t trying to coerce “consent.” Blocking that garbage feels like saying go fuck yourself. Viscerally satisfying.
Worth the hassle? Nah probably not, unless you’re just a weirdo like me who enjoys stripping the bullshit off of things.
I block all 3rd party things because I like to see which websites actually manage to do stuff without those resources
