On: Amazon follows Google and Apple and bans system-wide ad blockers on app store

[ballenf]

That's a rather uncommon exception. Very few apps load ads in a web view. Mainly because, imo, the ad platforms want a lot more user data than they'd get that way. And fraud would be a bit harder to detect.

[stephenr → ballenf]

And hey fuck users, the ad platforms are the real good guys in all this right?

[scarface74 → ballenf]

So instead we should install an untrustworthy intermediary that can record all of your internet data (the VPN), and do God knows what with it?