[PLUG] Yipes! Those Web Ads are KILLING Me!

[Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

There was a power glitch in my apartment last week that took out my 
raspberry pi which had been running Pi-Hole ad blocker.   So now, 
everything on my home network is using straight DNS whithout any blocking.

Yipes!  It is astounding how MANY ads there are, how targeted they are 
at me, how frequently offensive they are, and how absolutely 
overwhelming they are.  Worse, they take several seconds to load on my 
45 MBit FiOS connection, which means the web page rebuilds itself while 
I'm trying to read it.   Yech!!!!

This is the same reason I gave up on cable TV years ago.  I'd rather pay 
for Amazon Prime or Netflix than be bombarded by so much targeted (and 
frequently offensive!) ad content.

What a sorry state the web is.  I guess there is no free lunch, and ads 
pay the bills, but what an unpleasant experience.   I'm especially 
confused by sites like slashdot, which techy people (who presumably 
block most ads) visit.  Do the advertisers know that most sane people 
block their ads?

I don't have a solution to the larger problem, but I'm gonna rebuild my 
pi-hole machine ASAP.

Rant mode off.

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