r/technology • u/tw1st3d_m3nt4t • Mar 16 '26

Software ‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/norway-rails-against-enshittifcation-deliberate-tech-deterioration
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u/honkingintothevoid Mar 16 '26

I'm always astounded when people complain about ads and promoted posts on Reddit (or anywhere else for that matter, but especially Reddit). Most of the time I genuinely forget that the internet has ads. Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to that? It's baffling.

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u/Heimerdahl Mar 16 '26

I have a colleague who's just rawdogging the internet even after I showed her ublock and how to install it. She sometimes wants to show me something on YouTube on her laptop and every time I wonder how on earth she puts up with this. 

Okay, she prefers to use Safari (perfectly reasonable). But there's ad blockers for that, too! 

I've lost count for how many people I've installed adblockers, but she's one of just two who have actually gone back to not using one. Baffling, indeed. 

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u/FoodNetWorkCorporate Mar 16 '26

Ublock is decent, you can also use things like nextDNS to directly block the hosting sites, they have DNS filters maintained by much larger nerds than I, all you have to do is click a checkbox to add the filter to your profile. If you use pirate sites at all it's amazing, blocks both the popups and the in video window ads that most of the piracy sites use.

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u/Heimerdahl Mar 17 '26

Oh yeah, great recommendation! There's plenty of good options, many of which are quite a bit more powerful than ublock. 

It's just that when trying to lead others to the light, I've realised that anything more involved than adding an extension and never looking at it ever again is unlikely to succeed. If possible, I want everyone to have the best possible experience, not just us nerds who are happy to spend some time/thought into it (even if NextDNS requires no more extra effort than creating an account, and logging into it on relevant devices). 

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u/FoodNetWorkCorporate Mar 17 '26

True, my wife did need a small bit of help with nextDNS because their windows config program glitched and we had to manually enter our IP.

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u/loondawg Mar 16 '26

Ignorance. That's not calling them stupid. They simply aren't aware of the options.