Ad Blockers helped kill the open web
The article argues that widespread ad blocker usage has led to more aggressive advertising, harming the open web's sustainability and user experience.
The article argues that widespread ad blocker usage has led to more aggressive advertising, harming the open web's sustainability and user experience.
A web developer explains their decision to finally install an ad blocker after encountering intrusive ads and slow-loading pages during research.
Explores Google Analytics proxying, a technique to bypass ad-blockers for more accurate tracking, and discusses its ethical implications.
Article critiques Google Analytics' privacy and performance costs, and explores ethical, self-hosted alternatives for website tracking.
Discusses the problem of web bloat caused by advertising and the rise of ad blockers, questioning Google's recent moves against them.