I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I manipulate sites to remove unwanted content that isn't ads, like menu items for products in a suite I know I'll never use. I wrote a post about it, as it happens.
But...
I will fight for my sanity and peace of mind, but at the end of the day, I'm asking myself if it's worth being in a place where evidently I'm not welcomed.
Where did that come from? You say that these banners are "attacking" you, and that you're "not welcome[d]", but I don't really understand the train of thought that got you there.
I use couple greasemonkey scripts (for github, twitter). Sometimes they are life savers, or productiviti savers (like wide github, for people with wide screens, or dark mode for sites that dont have it).
Well, im a simple man, i see a full screen thing popping up on my face, i assume whoever created it, doesnt want me here. It doesnt matter if its "Hey uninstall adblock", paywall, privacy warnings, cookie gibberish, or anything else. Most of those can be easily blocked by adblock, but some of them spend more money on fighting adblocks than actual content. Thats why I dont visit medium.com/*, washington post, etc. I blocked them in my adblock (or /etc/hosts) because i cannot explain this kind of behavior in any other way than: go away.
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I manipulate sites to remove unwanted content that isn't ads, like menu items for products in a suite I know I'll never use. I wrote a post about it, as it happens.
But...
Where did that come from? You say that these banners are "attacking" you, and that you're "not welcome[d]", but I don't really understand the train of thought that got you there.
I use couple greasemonkey scripts (for github, twitter). Sometimes they are life savers, or productiviti savers (like wide github, for people with wide screens, or dark mode for sites that dont have it).
Well, im a simple man, i see a full screen thing popping up on my face, i assume whoever created it, doesnt want me here. It doesnt matter if its "Hey uninstall adblock", paywall, privacy warnings, cookie gibberish, or anything else. Most of those can be easily blocked by adblock, but some of them spend more money on fighting adblocks than actual content. Thats why I dont visit medium.com/*, washington post, etc. I blocked them in my adblock (or /etc/hosts) because i cannot explain this kind of behavior in any other way than: go away.