This is true, but I’ll expand the discussion to somewhere more niche than I normally see it go: consider getting a tool like ublock origin and using custom filters to remove distractions.
When I see other people use the internet, it boggles me how many parts of web pages are useless to them but allowed to stay for no reason. I take out things like cookie warnings I’ve seen countless times, the very distracting sidebar on StackOverflow[1], or anything else that has a risk of dragging me off course.
I mention this because I notice people usually associate these programs only with ads, when a philosophically anti-adblock person could get a hell of a lot of benefit out of removing annoyances instead, while never doing anything they think would hurt the webpage’s wallet.
There’s rarely a time I don’t want the answer to some pedantic and obtuse question about math, tabletop games, or whatever else, but the time is equally rare that I am on SO and am not, for example, trying to solve a bug or something.
This is true, but I’ll expand the discussion to somewhere more niche than I normally see it go: consider getting a tool like ublock origin and using custom filters to remove distractions.
When I see other people use the internet, it boggles me how many parts of web pages are useless to them but allowed to stay for no reason. I take out things like cookie warnings I’ve seen countless times, the very distracting sidebar on StackOverflow[1], or anything else that has a risk of dragging me off course.
I mention this because I notice people usually associate these programs only with ads, when a philosophically anti-adblock person could get a hell of a lot of benefit out of removing annoyances instead, while never doing anything they think would hurt the webpage’s wallet.
There’s rarely a time I don’t want the answer to some pedantic and obtuse question about math, tabletop games, or whatever else, but the time is equally rare that I am on SO and am not, for example, trying to solve a bug or something.