I was just trying to read some “science news” (actually an article about anomalous lights appearing on a game camera in Chile), and instead I was served 6 ads at once. Glory Be.
You know? I should look on the bright side. It’s good to be informed now about Indiana University on both sides of my 32″ monitor (some good information to have here in Alabama), State Farm, AT&T, the Citi Double Cash Card, and T-Mobile. Now I can go out into the marketplace armed with all of this information and make some rational decisions.
I’m not a fan of the phrase “enshittification,” because most of this shit was just shit to begin with*, but this is a truly enormous pile of steaming dung. And it’s not as easy to fight as people would have you believe. Use an AdBlocker and they nag you. If they nag you hard enough you have to block JavaScript, and that has to be done on a site-by-site basis if you want any good JavaScript to execute.** Leave it off, and this is the reward.
What a nice world we’ve built for ourselves here.
* maybe that should be a post one of these days since I see someone pontificating about “enshittification” somewhere every day.
** is there any such thing as good JavaScript anymore? Was there ever?
C.B. Crenshaw 