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[–] 79 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I work in an advertising-adjacent field (we won't do any skeevy data-harvesting stuff, but still, ads) and I barely use any of the main social media sites, have an adblocker enabled on my router, use uBlock, GrapheneOS for my phone, Linux with a bunch of hardening, a VPN that's always on etc.

My work computer doesn't have any of that 'cause I need to be able to see ads on it, but sometimes if I forget and just browse around on my work computer with no ad protection... holy fuck it always surprises me how awful the internet is.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't understand why companies don't have network-wide adblockers on their employee systems and intranets. Used to be in the Air Force, ads everywhere. Now work for a contractor, still ads everywhere.

    Don't they know that blocking ads can speed up their networks? That ads track activity and may be revealing sensitive information about employees?

    I don't get it.

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