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Re:I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online... by sdevonoes on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @12:35PM (#47235817)
There’s a burden in ad blocker plugins: you never know when they will get compromised. Im comparison to that, simply ignoring the cookie baner is less effort imho
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Re:I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online... by autoexec on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @01:23PM (#47236519)
Preventing add-ons from auto-updating is helpful. Enshittification happens more often than serious security updates, especially when it comes to add-ons that do something very basic such as hide a banner.
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