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I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable

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[–] [email protected] 230 points 1 year ago (19 children)

My retired parents live with me. I went ahead and put a PiHole on our home wifi. A day later my mother was literally complaining that she couldn’t click on ads on facebook. I told her those are ads and they track her and she says “well everyone likes to use the internet how they like to use it.. can you put it back the old way? I want to look at these shoes”. Can’t fucking win.

[–] [email protected] 171 points 1 year ago (8 children)

My wife turns off the WiFi on her phone to avoid the pihole. She does this so she can watch the ads in her games to get an extra life or whatever. You'll never win on that front and I won't either.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I get so pissed off when I try to play sudoku on the bus and it forces me to watch 30 seconds of ads between each game. And then during the game I have to ignore the flashing banner ad at the bottom of the screen.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just pay for a good offline sudoku app. It probably costs less than a cup of coffee. Then we'll all be happier.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

or get an open source, free and privacy friendly one from f-droid in case you haven't tied your hands with an iphone

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Simple games don't need internet access. Can't you block network connection for that app?

A better option even is getting something like what [email protected] suggested, or this other one https://f-droid.org/packages/org.moire.opensudoku/ or this other one https://f-droid.org/packages/org.secuso.privacyfriendlysudoku/

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[–] the_artic_one 18 points 1 year ago

It's a decent value to play the ad while you actually pay attention to the show you're "watching" for 30 seconds.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

People actually CLICK on ads???? Genuinely never had even an iota of desire to do that. I forgot it was even an option.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Boomers that aimlessly surf facebook. They're still trying to figure out what the use-cases are for the internet thingy they pay $60 a month for.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do when it is advertising something I hate. Publishers get dollars for clicks, pennies for impressions. That way I force someone I dislike to give money to someone I like.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I use adnauseum on my computer so it blocks the ads, but also sends a request simulating a click to the ad network. Based on average CPM, I've cost advertisers like $300 so far.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I got a lot of complaints from family, too. Especially because I block Meta. I just let them bitch and I tell them things like "those ads are broken because of malware" which isn't entirely untrue.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

but this means that she would see the ads but not being able to click? I don't get it. They should had just disappeared, no? Or was she complaining that she wasn't seeing the ads?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ads still appear in the facebook feed but clicking them results in a “this site could not be found” or similar error, is how I understood it to work. I know the PiHole basically makes it so the routes from “whateveradwebsite.com” end up not resolving to an IP address. I’m not sure how FB is serving them; so the text/image content might be coming from an FB server and the link is just an ad URL with a bunch of tracking info on it.

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] ICastFist 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You forgot the endless popups in the 2000s, which led to every browser integrating a popup blocker since then (and which often fail to stop actual malicious popups, no less)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, in these years are a lot of pop ups, pop unders among other crap in some pages, but normally in most pages there was, apart of an ocassinal Banner not much else to justify an adblocker. But nowadays, between ads, clickbaits, cookie consent, adblocker detections and ant-adblocker, paywalls and other shit like these, you need a lot of extensions and scripts if you don't want that the page fills your browser and HD with all kind of PUPs and unwanted scripts, apart of an ad/trackerblocker. It's a cats and mouse game between companies which want to track and profile you with all kind of dirty tricks, and the user and devs continuos searching contrameasures to show them the middle finger.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

reminds me of this scene from Idiocracy

reminds me of this scene from Idiocracy

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Almost, but needs a few tweaks:

  • Content should be border-to-border in the 2000 panel.

  • Needs to be 3 lines of content in 2010 and only two lines of content in 2018.

  • 2018 needs a slide-over autoplay video on the bottom-left of the content space.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I miss the IT Crowd and I am sad a show like it will never exist again.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like your glasses.

I'm afraid they're not for sale.

Dead.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] Isoprenoid 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's okay, you can just do a re-watch. It's not like it's been deleted by the Elders of the Internet.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As I recall, back in the late 90s there was a story in the Wall Street Journal about a man who loved receiving email spam. After a long day's work he would go home and relax by looking through his email spam and order things.

Some people are just like that.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once had a user whose PC would freeze every time they tried to see their desktop. Like, you minimise something full screen and the PC would freeze for a few minutes and crawl while the desktop was in view.

Turns out they had more than 4,000 items on their desktop.

That day I learned where Windows puts icons that don't fit on the desktop (it stacks them all on the first icon's place, lol). And this wasn't even the problem they called about! They were just grumpily blaming Microsoft and working around it for years.

I guess my point is computer illiterate/belligerent people will find a way around the problems they cause and just blame something/someone else.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I know what the problem is! Its the gigabytes! - Customer 15 years ago...

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Kind of like smartphones today with an app for literally every friggin thing.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have it on good authority, if you type Google into Google, you can break the internet.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait a minute, the "Elders of the Internet"!? The Elders of the Internet know who I am!? You've got to let me have it!

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

is this how people do memes in 2023? shit, i miss impact

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everyone hates Impact but goddamn was it CLEAR and LEGIBLE.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even this tiny image is legible with this style

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Motival Posters had a lot of black space outside of the picture so you could actually read the text!

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used this scene in a cybersecurity training session. I knew it got the point across, when our resident ad-clicker asked me for advice to avoid that situation.

E: she asked for advice for her home computer, as she didn't understand that "at home and at work" meant "at home and at work with any device, not just work's"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm noticing some sites have become pretty unusable on mobile and I dunno what to do.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

firefox for android + ublock origin and/or adguard-dns

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Literally the Windows Desktops+Applauncher / Mac Desktop+Panel of people making waaay more Money that I am.

Like Mac really, who thought just piling up apps in an always shown panel is a good idea?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I have a friend who has their entire center 5th of their laptops screen just dead. they move windows around it to deal with it. I look at the way they're using their computer and like I can barely reach it at their window size but it's better than paying the $500 MacBook repair to them

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

remember when youtube ads were those banners that appeared on the video and had a close button

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

My former co-worker was daily driving his browser without any extensions and didn't see anything wrong with it. I was watching him work one day and he was literally fighting a battle against the unholy pop-ups just tryna download some free fonts. What could've been done in 2 clicks took him minutes to do trying to close all the ads and tabs kept opening, videos kept playing. It was painful just to watch.

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