• mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Agreed.

    People seem to forget that in the past you didn’t run a constant antivirus on your computer constantly, and would just occasionally run a scan if suspicious activity happened. At least until malicious web activity became so bad and everyone HAD to run antivirus.

    We are approaching that point for web blockers.

    • sugar_in_your_tea
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      8 months ago

      To be fair, I don’t run antivirus, but that’s because I use relatively unpopular operating systems (macOS for work, Linux for home).

      But I absolutely run an ad blocker, the web just isn’t usable without one.