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Ad Blocking is recommended by USA government agency for security reasons, not running an ad blocker is a dangerous and suggest lack of information/education about IT stuff.


Agreed, but if legit content gets blocked you only have yourself to blame.

Like turning off JS and saying webapps don't work anymore.


>but if legit content gets blocked you only have yourself to blame.

If the bug is on the devs then the devs are to blame, for maybe expecting teh ads are loaded, or the tracking third party code.

The project I am working on works with ad blocker on. Also we had issues with users that had a spellchecking extension active, it would create a ton of hidden markup on a contenteditable element, and we made code to handle the issue instead of having many tickets to our support complaining and we telling them that is their fault for using a popular extension.


And if someone with a js heavy blog asked why it wasn't getting traction on a lynx centered forum they'd probably be told that their content wasn't readable for a portion of the users.




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