And believe me, Internet is clearly in danger.
This happened just a few weeks ago while at work at the office, a colleague asked me an information that I knew exactly where it was on the company network. So, I’ve triggered quickly my bookmark shortcut to get straight to the information requested. It was a Confluence page which I’ve checked quickly regarding the quality of information and then promptly shared it to my colleague on Slack.
After moving to his desk for discussing about this topic I started to heard my CPU reaching the moon! Why? After closing my Confluence page it was back to normal but I wanted to know why my colleagues didn’t have this issue. After reading that this could be caused by some Chrome extension, I deactivate one by one while monitoring CPU usage through Chrome task manager.
Boom! Virgin Chrome! Problem solved!
Then forgot about reactivating my extensions one by one as I was navigating on corporate network websites (without ads). Surprisingly, my navigation was fluid and extremely speed. I was like a kid discovering a new optic fiber connection on my brand new computer back in 2010. But my excitement just dropped once I started to get on all websites I was regularly following…
Nytimes
Wow! How can you read consciously an article without being polluted visually while reading? Wait! Can we still talk about reading? The pattern used by the journal is extremely disturbing.
YouTube
I’m a heavy consumer and early adopter of YouTube content. There are so much interesting educational videos on YouTube that I can almost not live without it anymore. I know advertising help content producer to make a living of it but there must be another way. Donations should be the solution, not agressive and EXTREMELY repetitive ads! Moreover, some friends are giving away their phone to their kids and they watch those advertising over and over. Not good at all either from an educational point of view.
Conclusion
After a few weeks using no ad blocker, I started to see what web was alike for my parents and for my step parents. Tricky ads hidden similarly to some content, very eye catchy banner, extreme tracking obviously which target with a sniper accuracy product they searched for.
But there is one thing that I noticed the most, it’s the waste of time! At work, it honestly impacted my productivity due to required scrolling, frenetic clicking crosses, video ads that you can’t skip and visual agression that you constantly have along the day.
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