I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 89•11 months ago
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 32•11 months ago
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)
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 13•11 months 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.
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English14•11 months ago
How about those mobile ones where they gradually move in from the sides to form a border around the content until you tell them to fuck off
- Zerush ( @Zerush@lemmy.ml ) 5•11 months ago
Only in apps from Google Play. Use InVizible Pro from F-Droid
- Y|yukichigai ( @yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org ) English14•11 months ago
Almost, but needs a few tweaks:
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Content should be border-to-border in the 2000 panel.
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Needs to be 3 lines of content in 2010 and only two lines of content in 2018.
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2018 needs a slide-over autoplay video on the bottom-left of the content space.
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- SamXavia ( @SamXavia@kbin.run ) 68•11 months ago
@gohixo9650 I turned off my ad blocker by accident the other day and freaked out as the internet was unbearable.
- Squirrel ( @Squirrel@thelemmy.club ) English22•11 months ago
I always forget about my adblocker until I need to use a browser without one. It’s really pretty miserable.
- Jamie ( @Jamie@jamie.moe ) 11•11 months ago
I helped someone I know out with a thing on their computer and got blasted by ads because they didn’t use an ad blocker.
Those two minutes on the Internet really had me questioning how anyone manages to use it raw without going insane.
- miss_brainfart ( @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml ) 10•11 months ago
Maybe if we tell them uBlock Origin is a condom for their browser, they’ll understand?
What a sentence to type out
- Jamie ( @Jamie@jamie.moe ) 5•11 months ago
I see it that way. You don’t dive into some strange without protection, don’t let your computer do it with websites.
- miss_brainfart ( @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml ) 3•11 months ago
It’s always difficult with digital matters, since there isn’t anything tangible and concrete to show.
Like, there’s no shady person following them with a notebook and reporting back to their boss all day, but that is kinda what’s happening, just invisible to the user.
My pihole is pretty good at showing family how many connections their apps make are completely unnecessary to their actual functions. That’s a good illustration to start with.
- AutomaticJack ( @AutomaticJack@beehaw.org ) 49•11 months ago
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.
- n3m37h ( @n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 24•11 months ago
I know what the problem is! Its the gigabytes! - Customer 15 years ago…
- Pantherina ( @Pantherina@feddit.de ) 22•11 months ago
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?
- Dave ( @Dave@lemmy.nz ) 12•11 months ago
I have spent a lot of time around a lot of IT workers and I am literally the only person I’ve ever seen on a project that has an ad blocker installed in their browser.
- 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 ( @01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ) English18•11 months 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”
- Radioactive Radio ( @radioactiveradio@lemm.ee ) 13•11 months 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.
- callyral [he/they] ( @callyral@pawb.social ) English13•11 months ago
remember when youtube ads were those banners that appeared on the video and had a close button
- lorez ( @lorez@lemm.ee ) 13•11 months ago
I’m noticing some sites have become pretty unusable on mobile and I dunno what to do.
firefox for android + ublock origin and/or adguard-dns
- kambusha ( @kambusha@feddit.ch ) 4•11 months ago
Mullvad also has an adguard DNS. In android, if you go to network settings and then “Private DNS”, you can add this hostname: adblock.dns.mullvad.net
- ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє ( @SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•11 months ago
Cromite if you don’t like Firefox on Android.
sure if you prefer to support the google monopoly
- ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє ( @SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•11 months ago
I use Firefox on my desktop and laptop devices. I’ve tried using Firefox on Android. It’s slow, and breaks on some sites. If you use it, good for you. I’m not gonna use it just for virtue signalling.
- Scary le Poo ( @Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ) 5•11 months ago
I have literally never had any of these issues with Firefox on Android
- Gormadt ( @Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•11 months ago
I’ve never had issues with Firefox on Android, and because I use Firefox on desktop I can sync my browsers between devices
Honestly I find it faster on my phone than chrome
- fckgwrhqq2yxrkt ( @fckgwrhqq2yxrkt@beehaw.org ) 1•11 months ago
Stop making things up to justify your poor decisions. Caring about privacy and security isn’t “virtue signaling”, its just a good idea.
- ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє ( @SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•11 months ago
Bruh. I do care about privacy and security. Otherwise I would’ve used Chrome or Brave. Stop acting like anything except Firefox is trash. (That is the virtue signalling part.) They’re not. I’d be happy if Firefox suited my needs on Android. I’m sorry that I can’t change my experience just because you say so.
- fckgwrhqq2yxrkt ( @fckgwrhqq2yxrkt@beehaw.org ) 1•11 months ago
Firefox is very likely the best suggestion for people on android who have those concerns. I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you but that’s what you are seeing here, people reccomending the best option. No one is telling you can’t use whatever you want.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 1•11 months ago
How is it slow?
- ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє ( @SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•11 months ago
I don’t know the technical reasons. Probably due to people optimizing their pages for Chromium, since it’s the de facto standard. Most pages load slower on Firefox for me. Chromium based browsers are usually better. Also, most websites of Indian government break for me on Firefox. It’s probably their fault, not Firefox’s. But I don’t want to deal with the annoyance. Everything seems to work most of the time on desktop, though.
- moody ( @moody@lemmings.world ) 1•11 months ago
If you don’t need access to another VPN, Blokada does device-wide ad blocking on iOS and Android.
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English12•11 months ago
I remember some video. It was a joke about IT remoting in to fix a computer. The icons on the desktop were shaped like a dick. Then it guy took a screenshot and was like I’m definitely sending this to HR as he sorted them alphabetically. Then the other dude was like “no put it back, infant find anything!” And the line that sticks with me, the IT guy says “there’s no sort by dick”.
- CaptKoala ( @CaptKoala@lemmy.ml ) English4•11 months ago
Someone give us a “sort by dick” a friend of mine really needs such features.
- fritolay ( @fritolay@lemmy.one ) 3•11 months ago
The website is down #1: sales guy vs web dude
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English1•11 months ago
Thanks! I added the link!
- GodIsNull ( @GodIsNull@feddit.de ) 12•11 months ago
Today? It always has been like that. I remember the nineties popup ad banner days. Not much has changed.
in the 90s there was no technology to have an overlay of an ad following you while you scroll and when you close it a new one appears more aggressively. Or to let you start reading an article and then suddenly appear in your face not allowing you to continue. Yes, there was the worse situation that they would open a whole new window, but browsers started restricting it quite early
- PersnickityPenguin ( @PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ) 1•11 months ago
Well at least in the early 2000s we certainly had the cascading cavalcade of pop-up windows that you couldn’t get rid of, I do remember that. Maybe not in the '90s though because it probably would have caused your computer to meltdown. Heh
- Geo_bot ( @Geo_bot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 11•11 months 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
- Alex ( @ultra@feddit.ro ) 10•11 months ago
- PersnickityPenguin ( @PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ) 5•11 months ago
Oh god
But seriously, my favorite are online stores for products, but you can’t buy their product because they have pop-up ads for other products that interfere with their websites you can’t actually view or buy their fucking product.
It’s like, insane. And probably why Amazon still exists.
At this point I just want the internet to go away
- Octopus ( @Octopus1348@thelemmy.club ) 8•11 months ago
No, this is just macOS when you boot up.
- eezeebee ( @eezeebee@lemmy.ca ) English8•11 months ago
Babylon Toolbar has entered the browser
- macniel ( @DmMacniel@feddit.de ) 7•11 months ago
If it was a human, I would shoot it!