Safari now has user tracking blockers built in by default. Or is that only for macs and not for IOS? Oh well, 1blocker has tracking blockers as well as ad blockers, and given the tendency for social media apps to greedily drain your battery dry with endless push notifications, I recommend to everyone I know that they avoid the apps and just use safari anyway.
I always install an ad blocker with anti-tracking filters on every single computer that passes through my hands. I used to just install it in the default browser (Firefox or Chrome). Now I see I’ll need to install it in Thunderbird as well, and research what adblocking and track block options exist for Outlook.
I have run into people who don’t use ad blockers out of some misplaced belief that doing so is immoral because it denies income to the media sites they visit. Bullshit. What is immoral is allowing anyone in this age to go on the internet without inoculating their browser against tracking, against spam, and against malware by installing an ad blocker.
Not installing ad blockers and tracking blockers because you don’t want to hurt the incomes of journalists is like refusing to install mosquito netting over your bed because not every mosquito carries malaria, and the ones who don’t carry it are living things that deserve a chance to reproduce just like other creatures.
Install the ad blocker, and then tell your favorite media sites that it’s nothing personal, but they need to stop depending on blood drinking parasitism for their livelihood.
