{"id":58089,"date":"2025-07-31T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=58089"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:19:33","slug":"qotd-web-browsing-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/07\/31\/qotd-web-browsing-naked\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Web browsing &#8220;naked&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I recently, foolishly, and for reasons that now escape me, bathed in the stroboscopic glow of the un-adblocked <em>Daily Mail<\/em>. It&#8217;s like they just took a bag full of flashing random crap, shook it up, then threw it at the screen. I&#8217;m not at all convinced that advertising is a viable model for internet use. It feels much more intrusive and aggravating than print or TV ads. Partly, I suppose, because it&#8217;s happening <em>on your device<\/em>. Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but I find myself repelled by it, and sites that use it, quite emphatically. I&#8217;ve stopped counting the sites I&#8217;ll no longer visit because they insist on the reader deactivating their adblocker, resulting in an insulting, actively hostile, all but unusable experience.<\/p>\n<p>David Thompson, commenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2020\/06\/scenes-from-woketopia.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e20263ec23eee5200c#comment-6a00d83451675669e20263ec23eee5200c\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Scenes from Woketopia&#8221;, <em>davidthompson.com<\/em><\/a>, 2020-06-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently, foolishly, and for reasons that now escape me, bathed in the stroboscopic glow of the un-adblocked Daily Mail. It&#8217;s like they just took a bag full of flashing random crap, shook it up, then threw it at the screen. I&#8217;m not at all convinced that advertising is a viable model for internet use. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,28,41,15],"tags":[97,58],"class_list":["post-58089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","category-quotations","category-technology","tag-advertising","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-f6V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96874,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58089\/revisions\/96874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}