Lyz’s writing has been published in the New York Times Motherlode, Jezebel, Aeon, Pacific Standard, and others. Her book on midwestern churches is forthcoming from Indiana University Press. She has her MFA from Lesley and skulks about on Twitter @lyzl. Lyz is a member of The Rumpus Advisory Board and a full-time staff writer for the Columbia Journalism Review.
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I use adblockers, tracking blockers, and a tool on my Mac called Gas Mask which blocks domains in ALL apps, not just in my browser. Like the author of the Slate article, I am unapologetic. Every once in a while I can’t view something I would like to, but it keeps a tremendous amount of garbage from finding its way onto my computer. On my iPhone I use something called Weblock, which does much the same thing (unfortunately only with wifi). Some companies deploy 100 trackers on a page. This is not only a security problem, it’s a bandwidth problem. We all are buying video content online, which should tell some bright person that we don’t like ads on TV. So what do we have on our screens? Ads. This is nuts.
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