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OK. Do you have Jetpack installed and active, or no?

Old or new editor?

Because Google views its accessibility team as a mechanism by which to check a box, not as an integral part of its software development cycle in order to ensure that everyone can use their products.

@GamingWithEars @soundshadow87 Yes it has its advantages.

I will freely admit that I did not, but on the other hand, we can just add this to the ever-growing pile of "it's never just one flavor of bigotry" examples.

@Tamasg @soundshadow87 Yeah you can do this too, although then you're in the position of having to play the whack-a-mole game instead of the maintainer for the adblocker's list. It's an option though.

The dogs are spoiled. Absolutely spoiled.

@MariaHill Then Christians should quit curtailing everyone else's freedom from their religion by literally doing everything they swore they weren't going to do with their overturning of Roe. Christians have been engaging in the kind of lying to support their own brand of religious supremacy that would make an Islamic fundamentalist proud, and it's time that atheists and others put an end to this before they turn the US into a theocracy.

@MariaHill See also: Christians once again using the state to ram their religion down our throats. Which in and of itself is reason enough to oppose stuff like this.

@MariaHill So what you're telling us is that you've learned nothing from the rightwing attempt in the 90's to prevent teen sex by doing things like attempting to ban sex ed or curtail access to birth control? I was under the impression that teen pregnancy is bad.

@soundshadow87 Do you have a Pi?

@soundshadow87 It stops it because it blocks the ads when it can. Adblocking is an arms race, so there are periods in time where the adtech is ahead of the adblocker, but that's usually remedied pretty quickly. The only trick to adblockers is that there are sites that disallow them, like Youtube, and if you're using Chrome you will want to switch browsers to Firefox because Chrome is about to kneecap adblockers as of this summer.

@soundshadow87 Stuff like this is why I love adblockers.

If you mute someone you won't see if they @ you.

@ppatel I'm not sure executing corporations fixes this. Not without creating tons of other problems at least.

@0xamit @Oeneus Give them time they'll find someone else to add to the list. They already tried with people with disabilities when they did that thing a few years ago where they went after people who objected to paper straws and the pre-cut fruit and vegetable products.

It still has to pass the senate and be signed into law.

Yes, I'm in favor of robust privacy legislation with an enforcement mechanism that isn't lawsuits.

They could, but as of yet none of the large American social media companies are owned by the government. Tictoc essentially is at this point. So while I have concerns about a ban, doing nothing isn't really an option, and so far the concerned among us haven't proposed anything close to a solution to all this.