jerieljan

I actually got a notice like this several months ago even before YouTube did theirs.

If anything, Facebook’s quite infamous for trying to combat and blockers in general. I remember back then when they obfuscated their web layout so much that it got tricky for some to filter or block sponsored or recommended content.

I eat my crusts but I have to admit, those who do not have a good point when some pizzas out there have especially terrible crusts.

Sync drastically reduces the barrier to using Lemmy for sure.

I appreciate the vanilla Lemmy experience but Sync has my muscle memory / usage habits after all. And it fixes some of my UX complaints that seem mildly annoying but enough to disengage me from the browsing session.

Once upon a time, I used to care and disabled adblocking by default.

But then they tried adding malware and ridiculous amounts of requests to third-party sites I didn’t consent to share, and is actually consuming metered data on mobile back then when unlimited data wasn’t an option.

So yeah, I’m adblocking by default now that it’s been abused and it’s necessary for self-defense.

I think it’s par for the course for user traffic to normalize since the platform gets visitors just by simply existing.

But if they actually matched that against old users of the site, then it actually means something. Most of the users that left are usually power users and have used Reddit long enough to use third-party apps and can’t stand the bullshit changes.