Pro tip: if you are concerned that you are spending too much time reading the internet, just uninstall ublock. You'll be so disgusted by the current state of affairs that you'll want to spend as little time online as possible.
Of course the other thing that's been happening is that most of it isn't "reading the internet" anymore; it's all watching short-form videos (also laced with ads).
The default rules probably won't cause issues, but you'll still see a lot of ads. As you optimize these away, things start breaking
For example, go to https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/My-EE-app-and-website/EE-Site-... and search for "Adblocker" in this page. You will find a story where their mobile service provider blacklisted their IP because they clicked on a button on the website while their adblocker was enabled.
Exactly the same thing happened to me with the same mobile service provider except that I was using uBlock origin when my mobile service provider blacklisted my IP.
Bank websites sometimes breaking in the presence of an adblocker is a common occurrence in many parts of the world.
You live in one geography and you visit websites that you need in your life. Do not assume everyone else is having the same experience as you. Websites breaking in the presence of adblockers is a real thing that sometimes makes us hesitate to install it on the browsers of our friends and family who may not be as tech savvy as we are.
I still install uBlock Origin on most of my friends computers, but make sure they know to open any sites that break in a private tab.
"...whenever a website doesn't work for any reason I get an earfull about my 'damn adblocker'..."
"I like the ads." - Wife
Really easy to setup once you have homebridge itself running. Just enter in your Pi-hole api key and add it to HomeKit.
As someone who has sat in front of a computer daily for nearly 30 years, this really hit me.
I am REALLY good at maintaining a no-ad/no-spam experience for my self with high-density-information content, that I almost never see ads.
My viewing is clean, I have never been accidentally rick-rolled, I have never seen TG1C, TubGirl, etc... no Ogrish or other crap...
I am my own 'curator'
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But yeah - if you dont take time to set mental-health-boundaries against the internet - then the internet is the same as the experiments when they just plugged in a machine (win98? xp? cant reacall) - pwnd in matter of minutes.
Thats the same as your mind.
put mental firewalls up.
Be open to positive content, but destroy negative impacts on your mental health with impunity.
and this is far improved my experience. it makes me sad that people arent/cant get these articles and have this other rage-bait experience, but I’m glad I opted out of that crap
and there's an experience beyond archive.is
moving on
not sure what has archive.is to do with extensions I mentioned