Many details of this particular experiment made me greatly reduce my confidence and interest in social science. I was trained up in quantitative biology- and when I look at studies like this, I see a long list of "things that could go wrong, leading the investigator to falsely conclude their hypothesis is true". But in this case, I think the investigator actually didn't care enough about doing high quality research- they simply started with a moral belief/value judgement and ran an experiment and chose to interpret the results to support their "hypothesis". And the nature of social science is such that it's really hard to truly run an "honest experiment".
> Many details of this particular experiment made me greatly reduce my confidence and interest in social science.
There is a reason why many scientists diplomatically classify social "science" as a soft science. Less diplomatically minded scientists like Feynmann call it pseudoscience.
Doubt it.
> and Microsoft Edge is moving towards implementing their own equivalent of uBlock built into the browser (thus, not Javascript, runs much faster).
Isn't Microsoft pushing ads onto the OS itself? If they are willing to show ads on the start menu, why would they block ads on Edge?