Was on a computer without adblock and loaded a page on sfgate - https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/daredevil-endless-skydive-over-grand-canyon-20147327.php<p>there's a banner ad up top, and a banner ad on the side. ok.<p>then a video ad starts autoplaying when you scroll, and if you scroll past it it shifts to your bottom right corner<p>you then hit a series of sponsored ads on the right hand column that are disguised to look like original content<p>then you hit another ad in between the main article<p>then you get to the video itself, hit play, and a youtube ad starts playing<p>What happened, internet? And more importantly (I understand enshittification, market forces, Google ad monster, etc), how do we get out of this? I don't understand how people can use the web without ad blockers
I use a combo of in-browser ad blocking and dns level blocking. It seems to be very effective while on the home network.<p>Ive been waffling with setting up a vpn so i can tunnel through my home network and apply dns filtering everywhere.<p>Another thing I've been wondering about -- which i recognize is extreme -- is setting up a mitm proxy on my home network to strip 3p cookies out of all requests. But im not sure if I'll ever do that.<p>One side effect of this setup is that cloudflare seems to need to confirm that I'm a human a lot.