Was on a computer without adblock and loaded a page on sfgate - https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/daredevil-endless-skydive-over-grand-canyon-20147327.php
there's a banner ad up top, and a banner ad on the side. ok.
then a video ad starts autoplaying when you scroll, and if you scroll past it it shifts to your bottom right corner
you then hit a series of sponsored ads on the right hand column that are disguised to look like original content
then you hit another ad in between the main article
then you get to the video itself, hit play, and a youtube ad starts playing
What happened, internet? And more importantly (I understand enshittification, market forces, Google ad monster, etc), how do we get out of this? I don't understand how people can use the web without ad blockers
Ive been waffling with setting up a vpn so i can tunnel through my home network and apply dns filtering everywhere.
Another thing I've been wondering about -- which i recognize is extreme -- is setting up a mitm proxy on my home network to strip 3p cookies out of all requests. But im not sure if I'll ever do that.
One side effect of this setup is that cloudflare seems to need to confirm that I'm a human a lot.