When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now [https://blog.codinghorror.com/app-pocalypse-now/] in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have

This is a screenshot from an NPR article discussing the rising use of ad blockers. The page is 12 megabytes in size in a stock web browser. The same article with basic ad blocking turned on is 1 megabyte.

  • @[email protected]English
    8•6 months ago

    Jeff’s solution is pihole not firefox? I thought ad blockers did way more complex and subtle stuff than the DNS approach of blocking entire domains?

    • @0x0OPEnglish
      6•6 months ago

      I’d go with “firefox with uBlock Origin” + “pi hole or similar”.

      • paraphrandEnglish
        2•6 months ago

        Yeah, I use pihole + local in browser on all my devices where I can.