Re:Blocked by Cloudflare
by HenryBemis on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @08:49AM
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Famous last words: "There are more important things to worry about than privacy".
If you've read history (and maybe you have, or not) privacy is a human right. When privacy goes away, then everything else goes away. Ask anyone over 60 in Germany or Romania (that was not WITH the army or the Police/Security services) and they will tell you how nice life is without privacy.
But hey, sure, 1) privacy doesn't matter, 2) you got nothing to hide, etc etc.
Ads are used to manipulate people into doing things they would not otherwise do, which very much affects "real world stuff". Mostly into wasting money on useless crap, but also worse. What ads uBlock can block is limited by Chrome. What "ads" disguised as content you are shown is affected by what information Google collects and lets other people collect. The internet isn't a nerd safe space anymore - what goes on here often affects real people.
I care about a lot of real world stuff - human rights, wars, the environment, friends etc. I don't care if Chrome knows who I am and tries to show me ads which uBlock then blocks. There are more important things to worry about than privacy geekery.