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Aral Balkan

“We see you’re using an ad-blocker.”

I see you’re douchebags.

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Don Whiteside

@aral I get those all the time and I don’t run an ad blocker. I run a tracker blocker, which they “confuse” with an ad blocker. Tells me what they’re really concerned with.

Aral Balkan

@donw Exactly. When we were maintaining Better¹ (our tracker blocker), we would run into this constantly.

This isn’t about the kind of ad that’s just an image. This is about adtech. This is about violating your privacy as much as possible and selling you to the highest bidder in an online auction every time you refresh the page.

¹ better.fyi

better.fyiBetterBetter (1996-2021) was a privacy tool for Safari that protected you from trackers and privacy-eroding ads on the web.
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