2025-05-24,
of ads and blocking
2017-08-03 – Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
freshly made som tam, Chiang Mai, Thailand
(youtube) Bloodhound Gang, «The Bad Touch»
- in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and all was well
- and WorldWideWeb begat Mosaic, and Mosaic begat Netscape Navigator,
and Netscape Navigator begat Mozilla Firefox, and it was good
- banner ads were invented and they were tolerated
- but advertisers were not happy and thus, they invented animated ads,
and audible ads, and Flash ads
- and lo, the internet reacted with horror and disgust, and thus, ad blockers
were invented – Fast Forward begat AdBlock, and AdBlock begat AdBlock Plus,
and AdBlock Plus begat uBlock Origin, and once again, all was well with
the world
- advertisers did rant and rave but they were warned they had brought this
upon themselves – if they had only behaved, the wrath of the internet would
not have descended upon their heads
- in their perfidy, advertisers did unleash a new plague upon the world, the
scourge of tracking
- and the internet did plead with them, introducing
robots.txt
and Do Not Track headers, and lo, the advertisers did ignore them all
- thusly, it was left to uBlock Origin to redouble their efforts in
Pyrrhic attempts to stem the scourge
- like a wayward parasite, advertisers did ignore all pleas and common sense
and kept iterating new plagues to unleash upon the world – advertising begat
tracking, tracking begat blockchain and crypto and NFTs, and crypto begat
the newest eldritch horror to plague humanity, LLMs
- and LLMs did churn out uncountable multitudes of slop, burying the
the internet under ever-increasing piles of slop, never-ending slop as far
as the eye can see and beyond
- but in our time of need, a new hero has risen to stem the tides – for lo!
Anubis has been born!
the day after
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