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And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is... interesting to say the least.

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[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It's completely fair that services need to finance themselves somehow.

However

Ads nowadays are

  1. Extremely obnoxious to the point where you can't even read one paragraph before another banner loads in, moves the content around and screams at you

  2. Not just ads, but also serve as trackers, which just completely goes beyond what an ad should be allowed to be

So, respectfully: Fuck ads. If a site can't serve them without respecting what makes those two things a problem, they can [redacted] my [redacted]