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I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds this totally bizarre. I think it might simply be ignorance.

Running Brave Browser

Smart people curl a lot to api’s via localhost:9050

Being intelligent does not necessarily make you an independent thinker, or even a thinker at all. It does not necessarily cure laziness or the herd mentality. There are a lot of high-IQ people who believe in crazy religions, who jab themselves every chance they get, and who think that the Jewish media and academic establishments are founts of truth.

Typical awareness or attention problem. People - even smart ones - are not aware of every single thing nor have the time to get-to-caring about even just the important things. Attention is the scarcest resource.

They are compliant

Ads can be funny sometimes 😜

Depending on what you browse and how you try to block, running ad blockers can be a pretty headache-y tradeoff.

What's the opinion of browsers like brave with built in adblock. I just turn off all the crapto stuff and the tracking stuff.

Because you want to see the broken state of the web ... And wish AI to destroy around 99 percent of all click bait websites out there ..

#w3m is the best as blocker .. no java script please View quoted note →

I did not learn about the Brave browser until about a year ago, which is kind of embarrassing. Big tech doesn't advertise privacy preserving tools, and they actually do a great job hiding them in my opinion. Also, I'd like to complain about website cookies for a minute. Cookie Accept/Reject windows/prompts are deceptive. WTF is a necessary cookie anyway? Those are how I justify my 2nd or 3rd chocolate chip cookie to my wife. The answer should always be by default to REJECT ALL COOKIES. There should be less fine print for cookies... like I'm accepting the Terms & Conditions drafted by a bitch-ass lawyer for a Big Tech app's consent to probe my butthole (aka share my data).

I've been using ad blockers for 5 years or longer, from my experience most people are computer illiterate and don't understand af blockers or computers, that's why

They might be afraid the be caught using ad blockers - doing something illegal. They might be afraid to get in trouble with the state. "Because it is our duty as a citizen to consume ads, isn't it?"

I don’t mind well targeted ads for businesses that I want to support. If a site’s ads are onerous or low quality, I’m unlikely to return. There’s the occasional exception where I use archive.is

I self-host adguard home. Life's good. 🙂

I think that it does not matter if they're smart. A of of these people also went along with everything they were told to do during covid, definitely took the covid shot and didn't bother to see what's in there. I think they're using Pi-hole or something similar perhaps.

I've heard people say it's their form of patronage! I don't buy it F that noise

IT guy I know said hes happy google read his email and loves onedrive. Another unknown myatery

i learned to alter my state of consciousness bc an ad

There's no such thing in Lynx.

When I go to the grocery store, I pay for my groceries.

When I go to the grocery store, I pay for my groceries.

Most of the time it's just pure laziness

They got well paid jobs at g00gle selling ads…

Lots of smart people in the world do use Gmail. How do you explain this?

They are retarded.

In my experience, they don’t care. It’s not worth it to them Bizarre to me

In their defense, ad blocker sometimes making websites unusable.

Adguard home running on a $5/month linode server

I don't use services that require ads for their revenue stream

There is no "smart people".

The more “tools” you install on your devices the more DOORS 🚪 to install for criminals to use!!

1) They don‘t know that you can actually do it, or 2) “Ah… I wanted to install the blocker… but not now, next time”

If there were no ads, how will anyone be to tell us to buy things we don't need?

define being smart