“Properly” and “should” are doing a lot of work here.

Hail my gimlet brother! I’ve gotten back into these in a major way over the last couple of years for the exact same reasons.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” has been my model 😉 And Wired aside, it does work phenomenally well. But I will take a look at your suggestion.

I use Block This! on my Android device, which essentially a pseudo-VPN that blackholes ad requests (as well as some trackers and miscellany). Wired bounces me immediately if I have it enabled.

They also paywall some ad-blockers.

Anyone have a non-paywall link?

Shiny.