It’s just big tech trying to get it greedy fingers on money anyway they can! I understand it costs money to run websites, but it’s getting to the point where a lot of sites and ad revenue setups are starting to have more ads then actual content, like back in the 80’s and 90’s. And do t forget about the scripts that track everything up do so they can pinpoint ads that will peel to you, at so they think, based on browsing and search history. Hell even brave is starting to put ads and trackers in its browser
I like the various ships in Babylon 5, but I also like moya from Farscape, the enterprise d from tang and who could forget the ship with HAL in 2001: A Space Odysee
I just read this morning that someone is spamming the hell out of lemmy.world from what looks like an attempted DDoS run with a ton of communities with a bunch of random post with no actual content.
Everything. They don’t care about nothing but making more money. Greed will be the death of everyone who isn’t already rich.
I would recommend posting this to the lemmy linux community @Linux
There is however a way of reverting this (for now?):
Load about:config in the Firefox address bar.
Click Accept the Risk and Continue, if the prompt appears.
Search for extensions.quarantinedDomains.enabled.
Set it to FALSE.
restart Firefox.
Courtesy of pebcak at forums.endeavouros.com