Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent.
Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat and make it more difficult to use rivals like Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft has now started notifying IT admins that it will force Outlook and Teams to ignore the default web browser on Windows and open links in Microsoft Edge instead.
The creator of uBlock origin has been releasing uBO Lite separately to prepare for Google’s fuckery. You can read about it here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/platform/mv3/description/en.md
That’s good to know. It seems like almost all browsers are chromium based right now so having an option of real ad blocking is great.
I am amazed that anyone can browse the web or watch YouTube without ad blocking.
Right? It’s so good to know there are still other reasonably people out there.
Whenever I see someone (nearly anyone) else’s phone or pc being absolutely inundated with ads I can’t help but wonder if they’re allright in the head. There are so many mobile games that I never knew were ad-ridden until I saw them on someone else’s screen … eg. Wordfeud, there’s apparently a video ad playing each time you submit a word. Wtaf…