• melsaskca ( melsaskca@lemmy.ca ) 
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    11 months ago

    It’s the wild west all over again until they establish law and order in the tech world. No standards, just everyone trying to make their millions (billions nowadays?). I can’ help but think the end result of all this is an empty husk of a planet, floating dead through space because people wanted to collect money tokens of various values and denominations.

  • owenfromcanada ( owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ) 
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    11 months ago

    I wonder how much more they need to do before more people start using tools like uBlock and such. The internet is practically unusable without it, and I’m not using hyperbole–most websites have so much garbage on them that you literally can’t read them without an ad blocker and/or reading mode.

    Since Google removed support for ad blockers, I convinced my wife to switch to Firefox. She noticed a huge improvement immediately, especially on mobile.

    • fonix232 ( fonix232@fedia.io ) 
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      11 months ago

      I went as far as installing network level ad blocking on both my home network as well as devices.

      Recently, I’ve had a few friends over whom are… not as technologically adept. They were incredibly surprised that after joining my guest WiFi, suddenly they were able to browse most websites almost completely unobstructed. No ads, no popups, no BS. Aside from the usual cookie agreements, of course.

      If you can, help your friends, install ad blockers for them, make their internet experience better. Even DNS level adblocking is relatively easy to set up, and the only thing this hurts is the unscrupulous megacorporations that want to milk you for every single bit of personal information to sell.

        • owenfromcanada ( owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ) 
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          11 months ago

          It’s not terribly difficult if you’re the one who set up the pihole or equivalent. But I typically use adblockers on end devices because they’re easier for other people to use (toggling a browser extension is accessible to most people, especially if I pin it to the menu bar).

        • brygphilomena ( brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
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          11 months ago

          A few, mostly for my mother who wanted those email ads where she got points or whatever for clicking on them.

          On the pihole, I just disable it for 5 minutes (there’s a button) and then see if it works. If it does. Then I look at the logs for what it blocks on a load. If not, it wasn’t the DNA blocker.

  • Resonosity ( Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
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    11 months ago

    Many of the reasons OSS and OSH are so critical to a post-information world.

    Our governments’ failure to protect our rights from corporations is monumental. And when politicians are captured by money and not the people, we have no choice but to do things ourselves.

    Hence dbzer0’s mission and vision! Come join!

  • Phoenixz ( phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) 
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    11 months ago

    It’s this extreme enshittification that made me sail the high seas again

    It’s not that I want to

    It’s not that I don’t want to pay

    It’s not that the seas are cheap

    It’s not that the seas are easy

    It’s hard, it’s expensive (storage is cheap until you need to store boat loads of 20-40GB files, it takes huge amounts of time and has become a hobby because that’s what it takes.

    I would gladly pay a single provider 100/month for all my series, movies, music, etc and always have access to everything everywhere without ads but the providers literally fucked us over on each and every one of those items so I’m done.

    Aarrrr mateys, all aboard!

  • Chamomile 🐑 ( chamomile@furry.engineer ) 
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    11 months ago

    @CurlyWurlies4All Relevant essay from Ed Zitron. It’s well-worth a read, for those who haven’t already.

    https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

    The picture I am trying to paint is one of terror and abuse. The average person’s experience of using a computer starts with aggressive interference delivered in a shoddy, sludge-like frame, and as the wider internet opens up to said user, already battered by a horrible user experience, they’re immediately thrown into heavily-algorithmic feeds each built to con them, feeding whatever holds their attention and chucking ads in as best they can. As they browse the web, websites like NBCnews.com feature stories from companies like “WorldTrending.com” with advertisements for bizarre toys written in the style of a blog, so intentional in their deceit that the page in question has a huge disclaimer at the bottom saying it’s an ad.