I'm so glad I grew up when I did and got to experience video games before they began injecting overt political messaging into games.
LunchMoneyThief
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The New Yorker launched a redesigned home page in late 2023, having reached a similar conclusion.
Oh boy let's check it out.
newyorker.com attempts to load js and frames from eight third party domains. Among them;
"conde.digital" -- I am assuming that means conde as in conde nast AKA reddit DNA... and we all know what happens to anything reddit touches.
"condenast.digital" above confirmed. I can almost feel the bile welling in my throat.
"cookielaw.org" - probably to serve cookie consent notices to the plebs who fail to block cookies and other trash.
"doubleclick.net" - known malware
"googletagmanager.com" - so that google can keep track of all their cattle.
And yet all of their articles are perfectly readable in plain HTML formatting, as expected. Not that I would ever spend any time reading articles from whatever this place is.
Block both javascript and CSS. Most of those nags are implemented via some combination of the two.
Google workspace
Dystopia is real
Only a few more steps until "Google Government"
This would accelerate the fediverse to becoming a monoculture of thought.
He’ll be 87 soon. Most likely, I’ll never see him again.
suck some orange cock. Fucking really? That’s your fucking Messiah?
Once you've reached 87, I wonder if you'll reflect back on that last time you ever saw your grandfather, but maintained too much distance because he had the wrong political alignment.
If you can't build it from source, you don't own it.
Paying is just a courtesy.