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[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is this from that Wonka event that people were upset about?

[–] epyon22 48 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago

Of course, one could argue that a Willy Wonka-inspired event that ended with angry parents and crying children is more authentic to Dahl’s novel than any of the recent Wonka movies.

this was funny.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is literally unreadable on mobile. Ads suuuuuuüuuuck

[–] epyon22 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I am sorry for you. Firefox on Android has ublock origin. I feel sorry for you if you are on an iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why do so many people on Lemmy think iPhones don’t have ad blocking? It’s an OS feature and there’s like a dozen ad blockers available that all work with the stock browser.

I swear this is like the 5th time I’ve seen a comment like this on Lemmy. I swear no one that complains about iPhones has ever actually used one…

[–] epyon22 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yep I'll be honest never used one. I've had ad blocking on my android for probably a decade and it was a struggle for the average android user to have it up till a couple years ago. The walled garden of apple I assumed the ad blocking was just as hard and likely harder than doing it on android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah iOS has had native support for content blocking since iOS 9 back in 2015. You just install any ad blocker you want from the App Store and you get full desktop style ad blocking in Safari. Also of course you can use DNS based as blocking as well to block ads in apps etc.

I imagine there is a big conflict of interest from Google with Android ad blocking since they’re essentially an advertising company and run by far the biggest ad network in the world. I’m kind of surprised Android supports it at all to be honest, but good to hear there’s good support now.

Fuck ads!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Safari happily blocks the adds with the help of Adblock.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not on an iphone, on android. On a browser with adblock. Shit still sucks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Maybe try Firefox instead. I'm on the lemmy sync app and it loads articles natively through it's own browser, but I guess it doesn't block ads because the site was complete shit, like you said. However when I opened the article in Firefox not a single ad loaded.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No issues for me using NextDNS. I’m a big fan. It blocks everything way upstream at the DNS level so I don’t need to worry about configuring my devices. It’s basically a lazy pihole. I used to run pihole but moved to a new place and couldn’t be bothered to set it up again. No regrets, one less thing to manage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I’m using AdGuard on an iPhone and there are zero ads in the article. You should get a better ad blocker I’m sure there are good ones on Android too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

You're not missing much. It's mostly just a list of embedded tweets.

Here's the tweet that mentions the meth lab: https://twitter.com/disappoptimism/status/1762416923080290397

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Have you seen the other pictures? They're hilarious. What a nightmare. People have got to quit paying money for sketchy shit they see on facebook.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tbh this looks like the right kind of sketchy shit you’d go to for fun

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Not for $45 though. Maybe if it'd been more like $5 it'd be worth it for the pictures, but definitely not that much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It was clearly an AI generated event, based on the artwork.

Abysmal looking event.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That girl has "last minute temp agency assignment" written all over her.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

I hope people don't hate on the staff too much, they are as much victims of the event organizer as anyone. Poor bastards, Id have scribbled personal contact detail for all the organisers I knew of, pinned them to a wall, and left.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

She posted something on tiktok about not knowing the event was going to be so bad lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Fun fact: there was only 1 woman oompa loompa in the gene wilder version of Willy Wonka, and the actress's name was Pepe Poupee

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

That fact is extremely fun.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Peepee poopy reporting for doodie 🫡

[–] kryllic 3 points 9 months ago

That whole ordeal is so surreal to learn about

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

This could be us but you don't like chocolate

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

And they say romance is dead

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Now someone needs to recreate this event and sell tickets for $90.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Looks like Debbie Downer's living life to the max.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Yeah, science!

[–] brotkel 5 points 9 months ago

She looks like she’d have a different kind of cautionary lesson to sing to children.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The Graham condenser is not connected to a water source.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Are you expecting scientific accuracy at that abomination?

I love catching little details like that, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

At least it's vertical unlike most stock photos of a Graham condenser.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Advertised the Willy Wonka Experience, gave the Slurm Experience instead.

"Tell them I hate them!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I see no giant snail producing slurm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Well yeah; they keep that shit behind the locked "Employees Only" door.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

They even managed to make the Slurm Experience disappointing.