How did you get a screenshot of my ex wife's old Samsung netbook?
She called me up once, asked if I could have a look at it because it was slow as hell. Opened IE and I'm not kidding when I say that literally 1/3 of the tiny screen was toolbars.
I screamed when I saw a ad in the fucking Windows 10 start menu. Literally suggesting you download Minecraft. Like wtf Microsoft -- this is a work computer.
Not sure what win11 has but I bet its Cortana or bing or whatever AI slop they use.
Listen, I'll admit I've never experienced a virus download automatically and rarely experienced a virus from a sketchy file.
But nearly all of gen Z remembers the free internet. Even up to 2016 it was still possible to view every major website without an account.
Every time I disable my ad block, or I see Internet Archive fail to save a webpage, or I'm forced to download the app for the privilege of scrolling down a thread; I get mad at what was taken.
We didn't realize how brief the era of mostly reliable and always verifiable universal information access would be. Now we can't trust any video because Sam Alton threw gasoline on the AI fire to make a failed Tiktok clone.
Watching TV, ads ran every 15 minutes and lasted 3 minutes when I was a kid but then jumped up to 4-5 minutes. So, 4 minutes of ads and 11 minutes of show, then another 4 minutes of ads. Unskippable, awful ads for deodorant and slap chop
Oh discussion is only about computers. I remember the first popup ads and pop under ads and they put a fake x so when you click it instead of closing it takes you to install malware
Just like how boomers always used to assume millennials are children, everyone keeps assuming gen z are children.
The absolute youngest gen z are 14, only 4 more years and there won't be any child gen z left.
Though with how fucked gen alpha is appearing due to the systematic destruction of teaching basic reading skills plus brainrot plus AI; I have a feeling us gen z will go the way of gen x, being silently overshadowed by our neighboring gens over time. Also the nihilism, gen x and gen z share a lot of nihilism.
It's hard for me to say this but I actually miss older (NT based) Windows versions. They kind of worked, had a mostly consistent UI / UX and could even be customized a little bit.
Yesterday I had the Editor (the thing that used to me notepad) show me an account login notification, next to some weird copilot buttons that were not there the last time I used it. Best of all, the notification couldn't be confirmed due to a bug and stayed open the whole time and covered about 1/8 of the screen...
On my super locked down work laptop windows does weird screen size stuff with windows shrinking or getting larger, especially when they're moved between screens that have different scaling, sometimes task bar icons disappear or begin to flicker.
We used to have a Windows NT pc. It had 64MB of RAM iirc. I think we had it in a dual boot with windows 98 at one point? It was always crashing. There was a weird issue where if the pc crashed when it was shutting down, your profile got wiped. So every time we shut the pc down, we'd be like, "Please don't crash, please don't crash."
At first they all blamed me for the wiped profiles, because I was the only one it didn't happen to. Then they realised it was the shut down crash.
It's roughly the right ballpark. Yes some of the oldest gen Zs dealt with that era in their childhoods, but by the time they were not depending on their parents to curate their computer, most of them weren't dealing with that reality anymore.
Me being on the family computer running XP and finding porn for the first time around high school age. Learned a lot of things immediately after.
Got caught and lectured.
So I learned to wipe history and cookies.
I honestly don't remember anymore how adblockers work back then or it exists. Probably does. But fuck all the fake Download buttons and X to close buttons.
I learned how and where from to torrent safely eventually.
became the tech support cleaning all the stupid toolbars. FML
OMG I remember browser toolbars! One time I used my relatives PC and there were like 6 toolbars stacked on top of each other... I was like what have you been doing with this?!
I still remember driving to summer holiday in Italy and my mum having the paper map out, the road marked with yellow highlighter and all the exits and changes written out beforehand. No A/C as well.
There was the pilot, and the navigator, whose job it was to read the map and say stuff like "the exit after this"
Somehow family members who lived through this lost the ability to navigate. I though my sister and later mother were fucking with me when I would ask and they would repeat word-for-word what apple maps just said, expecting me to read the names of every street we drove by. No turns out they literally cannot read a map and say "turn right in 2 streets, right before the McDonalds", they have to follow the little arrow until it gets to the turn. This was 2 different road trips btw.
Life was easy back in the day. People asked me to fix their computer. "I installed Firefox 3.5 and ABP. Life should be good for you now."
Come back years later annnnnnd they have been goaded to use Chrome and have trillions of bullshit apps. Was like "sorry, you have to actually pay me real money to fix this, people in this industry are actually very well compensated"
What ads? uBlock, Sponsorblock and an automatic cookie decliner and the Internet experience is only hindered by log ins.
Also change your DNS and if you can use a VPN and a faked user profile like user agent switcher.
Sites these days collect all the data they can, that includes your screen size, system data like sound drivers and operating system or your language and IP Adresss which sites you visit at what times (that is where the DNS comes into play).
But yeah, the Internet has changed a lot and for the worse. So far there are ways to mitigate them.
I know so many people who claim it's just easier to watch ads and click them away and tell me about their little hacks, it's crazy. Looking at a strangers phone gives me anxiety. My sister always tells me that watching tv isn't that bad, and she'd record it and skip ads, which to me is already insane. NOW YOU CAN'T DO THAT ANYMORE. She said she can still skip it, but not on the "good" movies, it still works on some trash tv and daytime stuff. They clearly took that away by choice and she's still like: it's just like 5 ads a movie, we just go to tge toilet or whatever. Same with navigating the internet. Well yeah, you just ignore the pop ups and agree to all the cookies
I haven't watched a live TV show outside of a game at a bar in like 30 years. Hell, I had tuner cards in a MythTV box and it would strip the ads for me based on the volume changes back when I paid for cable.
The complacent laziness and stupidity of people is why we have ads on everything today. 30 seconds on Google and the ads would be gone. Instead they just click through.
I do too. I know it's a very elitist thing to say, but the internet, while not as vast as it is now, was way better when it took some effort to browse the web. Like a pc, a modem, some knowledge, troubleshooting etc. It was like a bouncer, keeping some people out. I haven't had home tv for like 15 years now, and the only time i see live tv is when i'm at someone's home and the tv is running. No joke, i would rather not watch tv at all. Same with the internet. I've never been a social media guy, but someone tried to show me something on facebook the other day, the last time i saw facebook was when someone showed me their farm on farmville. It was pure nightmare fuel. I can not imagine apending my time like that. I know different people enjoy different things, but that seems really dumb, and these people are the reason you even beed adblockers, vpn, a piehole, cookie deniers and whatnot.
What people put up with on Facebook, especially after things like Cambridge Analytica, is utterly astounding to me. I burned my facebook account in something like 2007 after I heard about Zuckerberg's "dumb fucks" statement.
And then they post pics of the grandchildren along with every piece of trivia to be used against them in years to come. Weirdos.
It's so jaring to use my work computer, I can't instead an ad blocker, and it's over vpn which avoids my networks pihole. How do people deal with that level of advertising?
Eh, as a member of Gen Z I remember AOL dialup before we moved to cable, and using Mac os 9 on some of the iMac g3's the school had for reader rabbit/type to learn.
I fondly remember infecting the family XP machine for cursor mania lmao.
Kind of like the modern "Lincoln telegraphing a samurai".
Basically every time America gives huge telecom conglomerates money to expand rural services they literally just steal it and face no consequence whatsoever. It’s such a scam, politicians look good because they vote to spend 400 million dollars to expand rural access, comcast and Verizon take with the promise that in 5-10 years things will be better, then they do nothing hoping people will forget. Even when an expose article is written on the issue American cynicism kicks in and the politicians get away with letting them steal literally hundreds of millions of dollars.
It’s basically money laundering. It’s also a reason rural areas (which already tend to skew republican) have more support for musk, because for a lot of them starlink is the only real option for passable internet, but that’s expensive for internet that is pretty shitty compared to a basic broadband connection. And thus ~20% of rural Americans and almost 30% of Americans on tribal lands have no access to broadband in 2026
Not sure why you got downvoted for that. All it takes is downlading almost any other browser besides chrome. When my aunt shows me something on her phone and the page is full of ads, and I'm just like, why are you putting up with this? I installed a different browser for her that blocks both webpage ads and YouTube ads, but I strongly suspect she's still using the same old browser.
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punkcoder@lemmy.world · 127 pts · 17h
If you see that many ads you still have malware, we just call them apps now.
Saapas@piefed.zip · 13 pts · 9h
"This website has loads of apps"
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 110 pts · 16h
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 50 pts · 16h
Just looks like Facebook to me.
muffedtrims@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 15h
Where's WeatherBug?
YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip · 27 pts · 13h
BonziBuddy seems almost wholesome now.
cravl@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 13h
Ya know, that Alexa was probably more helpful than today's too. 😅
Wallaby@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 12h
Before Alexa we had Jeeves
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 11h
I miss Jeeves
djdarren@piefed.social · 3 pts · 6h
How did you get a screenshot of my ex wife's old Samsung netbook?
She called me up once, asked if I could have a look at it because it was slow as hell. Opened IE and I'm not kidding when I say that literally 1/3 of the tiny screen was toolbars.
vogi@piefed.social · 3 pts · 7h
I was looking into making a toolbar extension for fun, they look really whimsical. But all major browser removed the possibility :(
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works · -12 pts · 12h
Fake and gay, we had and trusted chrome by then
5318008@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 12h
Windows XP predates Chrome by 7 years.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 17h
Facts.
I mean, I haven't seen that shit on my system in years because I run redundant adblockers but... when viewing someone elses computer.... it's crazy.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 44 pts · 17h
Going to my parents' house is mildly maddening. They watch network and cable TV... The sheer number of ads is unbelievable to me.
69420@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 10h
Imagine paying money to watch ads.
arotrios@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 17h
Now the virus is the operating system.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 12h
I screamed when I saw a ad in the fucking Windows 10 start menu. Literally suggesting you download Minecraft. Like wtf Microsoft -- this is a work computer.
Not sure what win11 has but I bet its Cortana or bing or whatever AI slop they use.
TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 2 pts · 12h
Hate to be pedantic but *MicroSlop
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 2 pts · 6h
Erm, it's actually MacroSlop
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 28 pts · 13h
Conversely, ads are now one of the primary vectors how malware is distributed, so you still have at least 3 viruses on your computer. 👍
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 11h
Ads have always been a primary vector for malware and viruses.
adblocking is basically a condom for the modern internet.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 pts · 11h
Listen, I'll admit I've never experienced a virus download automatically and rarely experienced a virus from a sketchy file.
But nearly all of gen Z remembers the free internet. Even up to 2016 it was still possible to view every major website without an account.
Every time I disable my ad block, or I see Internet Archive fail to save a webpage, or I'm forced to download the app for the privilege of scrolling down a thread; I get mad at what was taken.
We didn't realize how brief the era of mostly reliable and always verifiable universal information access would be. Now we can't trust any video because Sam Alton threw gasoline on the AI fire to make a failed Tiktok clone.
workerONE@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 12h
Watching TV, ads ran every 15 minutes and lasted 3 minutes when I was a kid but then jumped up to 4-5 minutes. So, 4 minutes of ads and 11 minutes of show, then another 4 minutes of ads. Unskippable, awful ads for deodorant and slap chop
Oh discussion is only about computers. I remember the first popup ads and pop under ads and they put a fake x so when you click it instead of closing it takes you to install malware
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6h
Some countries have ads right before the end credits of a TV show.
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 16h
how young do people think gen z are? older gen z people will turn 30 next year which is in roughly 3 months
i'm on the older end of gen z and can absolutely remember this.
windows xp was used for a very long time and this is a windows xp and before era thing
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 11h
Just like how boomers always used to assume millennials are children, everyone keeps assuming gen z are children.
The absolute youngest gen z are 14, only 4 more years and there won't be any child gen z left.
Though with how fucked gen alpha is appearing due to the systematic destruction of teaching basic reading skills plus brainrot plus AI; I have a feeling us gen z will go the way of gen x, being silently overshadowed by our neighboring gens over time. Also the nihilism, gen x and gen z share a lot of nihilism.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 11h
Soggy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11h
Eh, it might not be legally true but a lot of 22 year olds still seem like children to me.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 16h
I remmeber early years of Facebook and other similar era stuff. It was pretty alright as far as ads go.
ZebulonP@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 13h
I also find this weird. I feel like millennials have more in common with gen z than any other two of the "gens".
lokalhorst@feddit.org · 3 pts · 9h
The main problem is, that the "generational concept" is sociologically useless.
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 16 pts · 16h
It's hard for me to say this but I actually miss older (NT based) Windows versions. They kind of worked, had a mostly consistent UI / UX and could even be customized a little bit.
Yesterday I had the Editor (the thing that used to me notepad) show me an account login notification, next to some weird copilot buttons that were not there the last time I used it. Best of all, the notification couldn't be confirmed due to a bug and stayed open the whole time and covered about 1/8 of the screen...
On my super locked down work laptop windows does weird screen size stuff with windows shrinking or getting larger, especially when they're moved between screens that have different scaling, sometimes task bar icons disappear or begin to flicker.
WTF?!
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 6h
We used to have a Windows NT pc. It had 64MB of RAM iirc. I think we had it in a dual boot with windows 98 at one point? It was always crashing. There was a weird issue where if the pc crashed when it was shutting down, your profile got wiped. So every time we shut the pc down, we'd be like, "Please don't crash, please don't crash."
At first they all blamed me for the wiped profiles, because I was the only one it didn't happen to. Then they realised it was the shut down crash.
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 9h
Advertising is the most prolific form of environmental pollution wrought by commerce.
It needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking, and every instance of it must be exhaustively scrutinised and required to be justified.
otacon239@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 9h
You mean the people who consume ads get extra work breaks throughout the day?
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 9h
That could be a perverse incentive to have businesses curtail their excretions.
nova@lemmy.wtf · 14 pts · 4h
I don't think you lot know how old gen Z are, older gen Z are turning 30 next year
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1h
I just want you to ask yourself, does putting that information out in the world make anyone's day better. Cmon friend, no one wants to see that.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1h
It's roughly the right ballpark. Yes some of the oldest gen Zs dealt with that era in their childhoods, but by the time they were not depending on their parents to curate their computer, most of them weren't dealing with that reality anymore.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 52m
You're off by 3 years
jaygray91@piefed.zip · 14 pts · 9h
Me being on the family computer running XP and finding porn for the first time around high school age. Learned a lot of things immediately after.
Got caught and lectured.
lordziv@lemmy.nz · 15 pts · 8h
OMG I remember browser toolbars! One time I used my relatives PC and there were like 6 toolbars stacked on top of each other... I was like what have you been doing with this?!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 6h
Still the case. Except now the malware is from the OS/hardware vendor.
Uri@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 5h
Well these days the OS is the virus
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 12h
sure kid. for me it would be a long interstate road trip in a car that runs leaded gas, has no A/C and only an AM radio.
wieson@feddit.org · 4 pts · 10h
I still remember driving to summer holiday in Italy and my mum having the paper map out, the road marked with yellow highlighter and all the exits and changes written out beforehand. No A/C as well.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 9h
There was the pilot, and the navigator, whose job it was to read the map and say stuff like "the exit after this"
Somehow family members who lived through this lost the ability to navigate. I though my sister and later mother were fucking with me when I would ask and they would repeat word-for-word what apple maps just said, expecting me to read the names of every street we drove by. No turns out they literally cannot read a map and say "turn right in 2 streets, right before the McDonalds", they have to follow the little arrow until it gets to the turn. This was 2 different road trips btw.
CombatWombat@feddit.online · 7 pts · 17h
Fedi is great because if you saw as many ads as I see every day on fedi, it meant you had at least one virus, not three.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 4h
Life was easy back in the day. People asked me to fix their computer. "I installed Firefox 3.5 and ABP. Life should be good for you now."
Come back years later annnnnnd they have been goaded to use Chrome and have trillions of bullshit apps. Was like "sorry, you have to actually pay me real money to fix this, people in this industry are actually very well compensated"
NeutralFlame@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1h
I remember installing all the stupid search bar add-ons in the 2000s. How naive I was back then! Got to learn things the hard way I guess
Fornicus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1h
What ads? uBlock, Sponsorblock and an automatic cookie decliner and the Internet experience is only hindered by log ins.
Also change your DNS and if you can use a VPN and a faked user profile like user agent switcher.
Sites these days collect all the data they can, that includes your screen size, system data like sound drivers and operating system or your language and IP Adresss which sites you visit at what times (that is where the DNS comes into play).
But yeah, the Internet has changed a lot and for the worse. So far there are ways to mitigate them.
whereitsat@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1h
gen-z and alpha don't know anything about computers.
frankly, i have no idea how anything is even maintained. it's probably on the backs of millions of first and second-gen immigrants.
some of these dumbasses i work with can't even navigate basic windows features--and these are college bound young adults.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 13m
except when a website stops working when you enable adblockers, ive ever used monkeyscript
newton@piefed.social · 4 pts · 10h
You gui's have ads ? Never seen one in 10 years
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 9h
I'm a command line, not a GUI
CEO_Monk@piefed.social · 6 pts · 7h
Now I'm waiting for Microslop to introduce ads to cmd and powershell
Sidhean@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2h
I think Ubuntu beat Microsoft to it, actually. "Get more security with Ubuntu Pro!"
Still, Watch MS make it so much worse. We just have to wait for people to start using window's command line interface!
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 9h
Normies don't understand adblockers. I mean, its a tough concept, like quantum mechanics. Can't expect them to know how to hit a button.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 5 pts · 9h
I know so many people who claim it's just easier to watch ads and click them away and tell me about their little hacks, it's crazy. Looking at a strangers phone gives me anxiety. My sister always tells me that watching tv isn't that bad, and she'd record it and skip ads, which to me is already insane. NOW YOU CAN'T DO THAT ANYMORE. She said she can still skip it, but not on the "good" movies, it still works on some trash tv and daytime stuff. They clearly took that away by choice and she's still like: it's just like 5 ads a movie, we just go to tge toilet or whatever. Same with navigating the internet. Well yeah, you just ignore the pop ups and agree to all the cookies
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 8h
I haven't watched a live TV show outside of a game at a bar in like 30 years. Hell, I had tuner cards in a MythTV box and it would strip the ads for me based on the volume changes back when I paid for cable.
The complacent laziness and stupidity of people is why we have ads on everything today. 30 seconds on Google and the ads would be gone. Instead they just click through.
Fuck, I miss the old internet.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 2 pts · 42m
I do too. I know it's a very elitist thing to say, but the internet, while not as vast as it is now, was way better when it took some effort to browse the web. Like a pc, a modem, some knowledge, troubleshooting etc. It was like a bouncer, keeping some people out. I haven't had home tv for like 15 years now, and the only time i see live tv is when i'm at someone's home and the tv is running. No joke, i would rather not watch tv at all. Same with the internet. I've never been a social media guy, but someone tried to show me something on facebook the other day, the last time i saw facebook was when someone showed me their farm on farmville. It was pure nightmare fuel. I can not imagine apending my time like that. I know different people enjoy different things, but that seems really dumb, and these people are the reason you even beed adblockers, vpn, a piehole, cookie deniers and whatnot.
ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 26m
What people put up with on Facebook, especially after things like Cambridge Analytica, is utterly astounding to me. I burned my facebook account in something like 2007 after I heard about Zuckerberg's "dumb fucks" statement.
And then they post pics of the grandchildren along with every piece of trivia to be used against them in years to come. Weirdos.
rethnor@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1h
It's so jaring to use my work computer, I can't instead an ad blocker, and it's over vpn which avoids my networks pihole. How do people deal with that level of advertising?
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 9h
Eh, as a member of Gen Z I remember AOL dialup before we moved to cable, and using Mac os 9 on some of the iMac g3's the school had for reader rabbit/type to learn.
I fondly remember infecting the family XP machine for cursor mania lmao.
Kind of like the modern "Lincoln telegraphing a samurai".
snoons@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 17h
Now the viruses are in your brain. Never really went away...
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 11h
Reminded me of this certified hood classic.
Excel Hell
rethnor@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1h
Oh my word I forgot about that!! Thank you!
taiyang@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 13h
Or you're a teenager making fat stacks with multiple ad bars. And by fat stacks, I mean fractions of a cent.
There was an ISP that also gave a discount (or was it free?) if you had the ad bar running. NetZero was it?
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 11h
I think? or Juno.. one of the dialups.
man I cant believe I remember Juno.. or NetZero.
edit I just looked it up.. NetZero still exists.And is still operating, as a dialup internet provider.
more so.. the company that owns NetZero, also owns Juno.. and owns K-Marts (Americas K-Mart, not Australia's) BlueLight Internet service as well.
Talk about a memory hole
taiyang@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11h
Wow, that's wild. I guess there's still a market for dialup, even in the age of mobile and satellite.
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 11h
Basically every time America gives huge telecom conglomerates money to expand rural services they literally just steal it and face no consequence whatsoever. It’s such a scam, politicians look good because they vote to spend 400 million dollars to expand rural access, comcast and Verizon take with the promise that in 5-10 years things will be better, then they do nothing hoping people will forget. Even when an expose article is written on the issue American cynicism kicks in and the politicians get away with letting them steal literally hundreds of millions of dollars.
It’s basically money laundering. It’s also a reason rural areas (which already tend to skew republican) have more support for musk, because for a lot of them starlink is the only real option for passable internet, but that’s expensive for internet that is pretty shitty compared to a basic broadband connection. And thus ~20% of rural Americans and almost 30% of Americans on tribal lands have no access to broadband in 2026
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11h
It is America, i'm sure theres still places that have nothing but phone lines for access to the outside world.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 5h
Now w3c has decided our browsers should run everybody's malware, and it's totally fine if every site breaks if we try to disable the malware
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1h
The whippersnappers think that as long as the ad is coming from someone hot and it's in their FYP, it must not be an ad.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 13m
get this man a true
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
Trust me, we do.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 5h
Now w3c has decided our browsers should run everybody's malware, and it's totally fine if every site breaks if we try to disable the malware
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 5h
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10h
I just saw this on Reddit. I can’t escape it.
Chev@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 9h
Ad Blockers are a thing. Watching Ads is a choice.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 6h
Not sure why you got downvoted for that. All it takes is downlading almost any other browser besides chrome. When my aunt shows me something on her phone and the page is full of ads, and I'm just like, why are you putting up with this? I installed a different browser for her that blocks both webpage ads and YouTube ads, but I strongly suspect she's still using the same old browser.
Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1h
Yeah I'm a bit tired of all the posts nagging about ads lately. Why choose to not block them and then complain?
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · -4 pts · 11h
Dude I just pirate shit and read books. You all just bare backing the internet?