Cory Doctorow<p>Theorists like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@aramsinn" class="u-url mention">@<span>aramsinn</span></a></span> described this as <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/configurability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>configurability</span></a> - the ability of end-users (aided by tinkerers, SMEs and co-ops) to modify the services they used to suit their own needs:</p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vk8c2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vk8c2</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Arguably the most successful configurability story is <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/AdBlocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AdBlocking</span></a>, which <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://twit.social/@dsearls" class="u-url mention">@<span>dsearls</span></a></span> calls "the biggest boycott in human history." Billions of end-users of the web have twiddled their browsers so that they aren't tracked by <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/AdTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AdTech</span></a> and don't see ads:</p><p><a href="https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/28/beyond-ad-blocking-the-biggest-boycott-in-human-history/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/</span><span class="invisible">28/beyond-ad-blocking-the-biggest-boycott-in-human-history/</span></a></p><p>19/</p>