But my original point was about not making assumptions that people who use ublock are going to be tech savvy.

but you have to join these two statements together. ok, some subset of ublock users may be technically illiterate friends or relatives of yours, but these people are unlikely to search for problems they encounter on lemmy, they will probably go to you. which makes my original statement still valid.

but we are definitely beating dead horse here.

i get that point, but do you think these people scroll lemmy to get this advice?

i don’t do unsolicited installs of ublock or any other extension exactly for this reason, because they will run into issue unable to handle it. and then next time, you see them using google chrome instead of the firefox you have fine-tuned for them, because “something was not working” and it did work in chrome 🤷‍♂️

i don’t think you need to school ublock users ;)

adblock? is that the one that accepts money for whitelisting adds? :D

no one benefits from it (at least from the part regarding cookies, which i am honestly not sure is part of gdpr)

before that, you just dealt with cookies with whatever cookie extension you preferred. now you would have to trust the site to store your rejection in a cookie, because guess what happens next time you visit the site when it doesn’t find any cookie.

and these fucking dialogs are hard to get rid off even with ublock origin.

so it is definitely the case of road to hell paved with good intentions.

the fortran code was probably written by someone who knew what they were doing and didn’t need 1 gb of libraries to implement the save button.

and the fact that the code survived till today does say something about its quality. i don’t think this is hard choice.