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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I mean, it's totally fashionable to give people who still somehow use Microsoft Internet Explorer scare pop-ups, so why not this?

If you don't run an ad blocker, your browser just isn't safe. This was the security community consensus 15 years ago. Shit sure got worse since then!

[–] Efwis 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And now you got the likes of google and YouTube that prevent things from working if you do run an ad blocker

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They try, which ended up just making a certain adblocker much more effective.

[–] Efwis 2 points 1 year ago

It will be a continuous battle. But, eventually, one or the other will lose

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet to encounter that on firefox

[–] Efwis 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, but I have seen people post about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they just haven't updated their filter list is all. Takes about five seconds to fix once you know what to do.

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