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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Anyone else remember the first ad-pocalypse?

    Like when OG AdBlock was created and there was an all-out race between individual websites and AdBlock?

    Then OG AdBlock sold out and allowed “approved” ads to still show.

    We are seeing history repeat. The only reason ads survived was due to increasing number of users who weren’t using adblock.

    Now, with market saturation, Google is starting to fight back.

    I would absolutely love to see a revitalization on proxy software specifically designed to eliminate ads and tracking. I haven’t looked into this in quite some time but I think we’re crossing into this territory now.

    The pessimist in me says to look out for a bill authored by Google to make adblocking illegal.

    But the optimist in me says “the Internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it.”