better luck next time.

Huh?

I accept your concession

K.

if you interject with "well ACKSHUALLY"

Those are your words, not mine.

where common storage device sizes are in the multiple terabyte range,

I was talking about data sent over a network, not stored on disk. ‍️

can't even come up with your own insult for me, just gonna steal that sad attempt at bait from the other guy?

My god. I'm not "out to get you" here, this isn't Reddit, will you fucking relax, dude? I thought you said that you were autistic? Maybe I misinterpreted you. Maybe it was someone else.

All good how? Ready to drop the insults? ️

That's kind of my point - just based on the reception it's clear that a number of people were perceiving that as one. Normally that's the "pump the brakes" or the "hol up ️️" moment where you clarify.

You do have a point, but... It's not for nothing. It's to hurt the predatory ad industry. And what you give up isn't much: your IP address and likely the referral (so they know you visited website X that was serving their ad). It's up to you to decide whether that's an acceptable privacy cost to conduct this kind of guerilla ad warfare.

It would be cool if it could somehow integrate to a VPN and only do that while the VPN is active. I don't think it's possible, though.

I don't know about NZ (or wherever you are), but IP addresses for residential access in the US don't really change all that much. It's... concerning.

It would be cool if it could somehow integrate to a VPN and only do that while the VPN is active. I don’t think it’s possible, though

A split-tunnel VPN could do this, but it would require some advanced routing and awareness by the plugin to send the request down the other route. I think that would mean the plugin would have to have deeper hooks into OS to reach the IP stack which browsers usually don't have, so there would be some security implications there for abuse/attack surface of the plugin.

You definitely seem rustled.

Gotcha.

Thanks for doing your part to spread the truth in this sea of lives and FUD.

It's clear that most people these days are proud consumers with more money than sense. All they care about is looking good in front of their consumerist friends, and they base all of their actions and decisions around what will support that ideology.

As a kid, I thought useful idiots were rare. Now I see it's the exact opposite.

if you say so, whatever makes you happy.

The advertisers could be paying based on interactions and/or their rates could be negotiated around interaction, so unless a sizeable number of people use this it would be giving money to Goog