Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed

Post by FLeXMurphy » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

datakan wrote: post #37

shevy-java wrote: post #20

The sad thing is that we need adblockers in the first place. Granted, even in the 1990s there were ads; I remember blinking banners and what not. But often the underlying website was still fine as such. Fast forward some years. Now if you look at e. g. medium.com but many other websites, you are CONSTANTLY bombarded with pointless pop-ups, slide-ins, and pester-naggers. No I do use ublock origin (it works on thorium…

I read an article a while ago about some scientist who decided that he wanted to go around investigating a certain species of leech that lives inside a hippo's butt, like attached directly to the colon. He suggested that, as big as the hippo is, it probably wasn't really all that aware that the leeches are even in its butt, but that's where the leech likes to be because there's a good source of blood there for the le…

Post by only_in_america » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

inigyou wrote: post #31

shevy-java wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's not just him. It's Google versus Mankind. Mankind will eventually prevail against Evil. Google pissed off too many people now, you only need to look at reddit's degoogle subreddit.

Never in history has good prevailed over evil for more than a short time.

Post by Batman8675309 » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 6:00 PM UTC

shevy-java wrote: post #20

The sad thing is that we need adblockers in the first place. Granted, even in the 1990s there were ads; I remember blinking banners and what not. But often the underlying website was still fine as such. Fast forward some years. Now if you look at e. g. medium.com but many other websites, you are CONSTANTLY bombarded with pointless pop-ups, slide-ins, and pester-naggers. No I do use ublock origin (it works on thorium…

Post by horsawlarway » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 6:13 PM UTC

WarmWash wrote: post #44

The discussion around Ad blocking is, while definitely a needed discussion, is so rife with confusion, dishonesty and and self-serving ideology that we are going to kill the internet while being absolutely 100% sure that never giving compensation for value did not do any damage or play any part in making the internet suck.

Post by still_grokking » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 6:19 PM UTC

anang wrote: post #38

inigyou wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never in history has good prevailed over evil for more than a short time.

I would argue the opposite is true. We’ve gone from despotic theocratic regimes controlling essentiallt every living human in the world to democratic self determination being one of the most prevalent political theories on the planet. The tolerance for slavery, brutal warfare, institutionalized racism and much more is way lower now than it has been in the past. “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends tow…