They remove the text and sell your data, you guys complain; they leave it and sell your data, you guys complain. They just can’t win. /s

by up to 45% on SSDs

Excuse me, what!?!

I wonder where the average is for the performance reduction. Probably something I’ll look into but I’d be pissed if I bought a drive and instantly lost even 20%.

Luckily, I’m not on Windows so I have nothing to really worry about but damn.

Most definitely. They were complaining about them not making a profit, and they really thought blaming the few people using an Adblock made sense.

It’s all to get more Premium subscriptions. The ads are an intentional problem with the “obvious solution” being advertised right there on the homepage.