I'VE HAD IT! Website programmers are morons. Website owners are greedy morons.

[hunter]

79. I never see that shit.

Most sites probably read me as some sort of disabled person, using a disabled person's browser, and maybe they are right.

I don't ever install Adobe, Apple, or Microsoft "products" on my computers, no Flash, no nothing. I block any objects that move or makes sound or "pop up" without my explicit permission. I don't allow cookies and all that other crap to live on my computer more than a day. Scripts and HTML5 are severely limited in what they can do.

I don't even have to use ad-block or other similar tools because the worst an ad can do is throw some text at me. I fully allow non-animated ads on certain mostly technical sites. Google ads still seem to appreciate the limitations I impose upon them, but other advertisers and web sites have hissy fits about it, with timeouts and other crap like white-on-white text and other stupid tricks, generally those sites not worth reading in the first place.

Spoof Huffington Post as a dillo or elinks browser, cough, cough... Sometimes they don't allow you to see the content until you see the ads.

DU breaks on jury duty with my normal browser settings, and leaves me missing a few buttons, but I'm paid up as a subscriber so I allow the DU javascript to run freely, and it's all good.

I've solved the television problem by abandoning television. Our television is a movie player. That's all it does. The occasional thrift store or RedBox DVD may have movie trailers up front, but it's rare they are entirely uninteresting or our ability to skip past them is blocked. With old VHS tapes it's just a matter of hitting Fast Forward.

My wife gave our old CRT television to her brother and brought home a slightly larger flat screen LCD one day. Whatever software it has in it's 1080P microprocessor "brain" makes one dollar VHS tapes and two dollar DVDs from the thrift store look better than they ever did in the Analog NTSC age.