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Discussion on: July 3rd, 2020: What did you learn this week?

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Gary Bell

Websites have far too many adverts and other spammy rubbish on them. More than I realised.

I only noticed after visiting some sites I frequent after adding Pi Hole to my network and seeing the number of intercepted requests.

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Kyle Jones

Do some websites stop loading the main content if the ads don't load? Would've expected this to be the case for some at least

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Gary Bell

I've not seen that happen yet. The main issue is clicking some links from Twitter and Google Shopping because the analytics part kicks in