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The Death Of Ad Blocking (2025, Colorized)
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10 months ago 323.2K views 0 shares
The Death Of Ad Blocking (2025, Colorized)
Ah, the funeral for uBlock Origin, scheduled for July 2025. Firefox is there pointing at the tombstone like "you seeing this?" while Chrome stands nearby looking suspiciously guilty. Google's plan to kill ad blockers with Manifest V3 is basically sending flowers to its own revenue stream. Firefox users just sitting here with popcorn watching Chrome users discover what the internet looks like without ad blocking. It's like watching someone experience pop-up ads for the first time since 2005.

YouTube Survivorship Bias
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11 months ago 415.0K views 0 shares
YouTube Survivorship Bias
The famous WWII survivorship bias diagram strikes again! During the war, engineers analyzed returning planes to decide where to add armor. They marked bullet holes (red dots) on returned aircraft—but the critical revelation was that they should armor the unmarked areas , since planes hit there never made it back. YouTube's anti-adblock crusade perfectly mirrors this logical fallacy. They're only measuring revenue from users who stick around after being forced to disable adblock—completely missing all the users who just abandon the platform entirely. It's like optimizing your codebase by only listening to the three users who didn't rage-quit after your UI redesign.

Nice Try, Google
Webdev Security Frontend
11 months ago 230.3K views 0 shares
Nice Try, Google
Google's eternal struggle against ad blockers has reached peak comedy. YouTube's "helpful" suggestion to disable your ad blocker is met with the perfect response from a hardened Firefox user: "No, I don't think I will." It's the digital equivalent of a restaurant suggesting you might enjoy your meal more if you paid double and watched a 30-second commercial between each bite. After years of battling popup ads and auto-playing videos, we've earned our right to browse in peace. Nice try though, YouTube... nice try.

Dedicated To Firefox Users
Webdev Security Frontend Javascript Programming
1 year ago 305.0K views 1 shares
Dedicated To Firefox Users
Ah, the duality of Firefox users. Some folks are out here fighting the good fight against Manifest V3 (Google's API changes that cripple ad blockers), while others just picked their browser because of the adorable red panda logo. Nothing says "I have my priorities straight" like choosing your web security tools based on cute animal mascots. The Chrome users are probably too busy watching their RAM slowly die to notice anyway.

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