What a waste
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It's truly egregious how much time and money is wasted every day to
show ads, especially online. Every day a new technology is developed
not to make the world better but to shove products and services that
you don't need down your throat. Oh, how the pursuit of progress has
hurt us.

According to SponsorBlock's developer, youtube was testing (2024)
server-side ad injecting, obviously to sabotage ad blockers further
as they become more popular. The enlightened hackers who work
incessantly to combat g**gle's corporate greed and who deserve spots
of honour in every paradise of every religion will surely surmount
any and all obstacles thrown at them, but how ridiculous it is for
this battle to keep raging on.

I'd like to believe, maybe naively, that these corps are unfounded
in their belief on ads, that they have no effect, and that people
would happily block them all if they knew how to, but life, fair as
it is, brings to all as much disappointment as it brings joy.