Just posting here the always relevant reminder that Firefox still has real ad-blockers.

Now age verification should be added to the list, especially if you want to browse 18+ sites like about how to pay taxes or learn to drive

Alternate version:

• You don’t even bother going to a search engine because they’re mostly terrible anymore
• You ask AI to search / parse the web site - bot reads the web site
• Site doesn’t get any revenue because the site’s so terrible, but you are supposed to feel bad

The open web has been in trouble for a while, and enshittification is just accelerating it.

Adblock as a concept has existed for 20+ years. No excuse to be so willfully ignorant of it.

And then they sell you LLMs as the solution.

My websites: no cookies, no tracking, a few KB of JS, rest is pure HTML and CSS. My sites load 10x faster. Meanwhile every other company is running some overly bloated WP. Its kinda of mind blowing how dumb some of these sites are.

1. (optional) Set up a pihole or pull something like stevenblacks hosts to your /etc/hosts
2. Install a adblock browser extension
3. Browse website

What about the step where you change VPN servers because cloudflare blocked the first one you used?