because seven ate nine through twenty-three

wait so the people doing the work don’t get paid and the people who get paid steal from others?

that is just so uncharacteristic of capitalism, what a surprise

you can get a raspberry pi and install something called pihole on it, it’s a DNS server with ad-blocking. basically, it converts a domain name like example.com into an IP address, but rather than just faithfully supply DNS, it also effectively blocks some adverts by acting like the domain names don’t exist for servers that run ads

once it’s set up it’ll just work, and it should protect everyone on your network/wifi from some ads

chrome can use their dominant market position to kill all other competing browsers, then they can use their monopoly to kill addons and extensions they don’t like, slow down or break webpages which go against their interests, and so on.

google having a near-complete monopoly on the web scares me more than most issues in tech