I don’t really use facebook anymore so couldn’t care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.

  •  spudwart   ( @spudwart@spudwart.com ) English
    31•11 months ago

    So this is how it will start.

    First it will be a back and forth war of Anti-adblockers vs Adblockers

    Then when the Anti-Adblockers start to lose, which they will, then they’ll come crying to various governments with massic PAC campaigns among other insane garbage about how “Adblockers are Piracy!” and that they need to be banned.

    This will not end well.

    •  phoenixz   ( @phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) 
      9•11 months ago

      It’ll end well enough. People will just stop using their shitty platforms. They’ll start looking for alternatives, from which there are loads, find that there are platforms that don’t require ads, and go there.

      Those that stay deserve the shit they get

    •  Echo Dot   ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 
      9•11 months ago

      The thing is, if they get really stupid with it I could just go ahead and install pi hole. I haven’t already because it’s a bit of a fiddle on and I don’t apparently don’t need it yet. There’s no way for the government to mandate against that, unless they actually want to ban me from owning a computer, Which obviously won’t really work.