God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
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@miss_rodent whenever I see someone's phone or computer without all the privacy stuff I have, it looks basically like an apocalyptic hellscape. I don't know how it's even usable without taking constant psychic damage.
@alice @miss_rodent Can I quote you on that?
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@alice @miss_rodent Can I quote you on that?
@drwho sure
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
Something like 2000+ over the last few days for me.
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@DavidNielsen oh, please do!
@alice so about this creepy human hair totem, I am assuming Victorians are involved.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice I've been pushing for ad blocking at work. None of our browsers have any ad blocking or ad prevention measures implemented or permitted.
The amount this is adding to our mobile data bill must be huge, not to mention the constant interruptions and shit thrown at people when they are working and looking for stuff.
That's one of the advantages of WFH - my Kinkpad is built for speed and shit blocking, which means I can find things out far quicker than on my work issued device.
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@drwho sure
@alice @miss_rodent Thank you very much.
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@alice so about this creepy human hair totem, I am assuming Victorians are involved.
@DavidNielsen someone asked "how do you even keep track of all your followers?" and I said I make tiny hair dolls for each one, so I can tell whenever one is out of place.
Then I spent over an hour searching for the perfect photo of a small, real human (or cat) hair effigy.
I was disappointed that I couldn't find just the right image, so I started searching for felting instructions so I could make my own.
Like a perfectly normal person.
I'm now the proud owner of this.
Like a perfectly normal person.
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@alice I've been pushing for ad blocking at work. None of our browsers have any ad blocking or ad prevention measures implemented or permitted.
The amount this is adding to our mobile data bill must be huge, not to mention the constant interruptions and shit thrown at people when they are working and looking for stuff.
That's one of the advantages of WFH - my Kinkpad is built for speed and shit blocking, which means I can find things out far quicker than on my work issued device.
@CaptMikeYates ads are also such a common vessel for malware and scams; blocking them is the safe thing to do.
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@CaptMikeYates ads are also such a common vessel for malware and scams; blocking them is the safe thing to do.
@alice Yup, I've been clearing and cleaning up computers infected via adware and malware delivered by ads for more than two decades. Ad blocker is the first thing that gets added any computer I work on.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice Browse the web? I haven't done that in forever. I doomscroll, and I might click a link someone shared here. There's a few RSS feeds I follow. And a couple of pages I bookmarked to go to directly.
There is no browsing.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice I'm a teacher, I use adblockers, automatic cookie decliners and similar addons. Sometimes I assign my students online grammar exercises. When I see the same website I always get a shock and try to gently suggest that maybe they should look into getting an adblocker. Similarly, my heart drops everytime they just click "accept all" to get the cookie banner to disappear as quickly as possible.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice very... very carefully
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice I don’t install an ad blocker on my work computer because…internal software reasons…and I *loathe* looking at web pages on it.
I guess it’s a good way to keep me from browsing the web on work hardware.
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@eldersea I used to really appreciate the IR blaster on my old phone; I could just turn TVs off when in bars or stores, or at least mute them.
@alice @eldersea
That was a handy feature. Also excellent for hotel rooms where they've chosen to provide the room with a remote that doesn't have certain features like menu access (all I want from my hotel TV is accessible wifi and an HDMI so I can plug in my own device).I've been known to pay them back for the inconvenience by blocking right wing news channels.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice Pi-Hole https://pi-hole.net
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@alice Pi-Hole https://pi-hole.net
@starlily pi-holes are awesome.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice And don't even get me started on how people use and want smart TVs
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
What's extra crazy is that this would've been 30% of my *monthly* mobile data, and it was racked up in a day or two!
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@calvin always use protection; these days you don't raw-dog the internet, it raw-dogs you.
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@calvin always use protection; these days you don't raw-dog the internet, it raw-dogs you.
