God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?

@alice it seems most normal people don't browse the web anymore. They just ask ChatGPT for everything instead.

@alice I ask myself that question all the time.

I use pi-hole and in-browser ad-blockers (uBlock Origin in Firefox). My phone is set up to always be connected to my home network via VPN while I'm out and about, so any browsing goes through my home network and is filtered by pi-hole.

My only pain point are Youtube ads on my Apple TV. I don't watch YT but my daughter does, and the ads on that are absolutely obnoxious.

@Landsil @alice @DavidNielsen bet the cat is fuming he doesn't get to play with that yarn ball

Seriously tho spinning pet hair is cool af

@alice just loading CNN.COM completely kills my WORKSTATION CLASS DELL PRECISION DESKTOP at work lol yeah it’s bad out there dis timeline fml

@alice
With their CPU fans going to the fucking moon

@alice @miss_rodent
Exactly the same here. And we're not even speaking of the extra CPU/GPU usage (JS, video ads... if not crypto miners). Ads blockers frequently increase the autonomy of a laptop and reduce its noise (CPU fan)

@alice They don't. They spend almost all of their time on apps that use the internet for them.

@alice Not without Waterfox and these extensions
AdBlocker for YouTube
Privacy Badger
Facebook Container
Facebook Direct Links
Hide Google AI Overviews
Qwant^h^h^h^h^h Startpage Search Engine (Europe based)
Tracking and Ad Removal on Facebook

Alternative providers https://goeuropean.org & https://docs.proton.me/doc?mode=open-url&token=NR710FE3MW#FgIAeN9UoR91

@rainynight65 @alice I do the same thing with pi-hole and ad-blockers. I use freetube to play youtube videos on my desktop. Unfortunately, it doesn't exist on apple tv or ios. If you have a mac you could use screen sharing to display your computer screen on the apple tv. Then you can play youtube videos on a big screen without ads.

@alice I ask myself this question every time I sit down at my dad's computer.

@alice whenever the kids complain how awful the internet is off our home network i give a silent prayer of thanks to the pfsense fairy

@daman_ab @alice

Screensharing is not really an option for my daughter to use. I also tried Yattee but it is outdated and suffers from serious usability issues. I've just set up iSponsorBlockTV, that seems to work quite well in at least auto-muting and auto-skipping YT ads.

@alice funny you should ask! Highly detailed info on exactly how ordinary people browse the internet is available in summary, statistical, and individual profiles per-supposedly -anonymized user. For a surprisingly small fee. 🫣

@renardboy @Landsil @alice perhaps I should take up that hobby, I have a #GoldenRetriever, she sheds like crazy, I could make so many sweaters.

@alice
The last time my wife handed me her phone to look at something in her web browser I asked if she needed anything in the open tabs. There were so many that Chrome no longer listed the number. I then had to disable notifications from who knows how many websites. It's probably time for me to do that again for her.

She's resistant to any kind of change, so changing browsers or adding a VPN is out of the question for her.

@alice@lgbtqia.space I once asked few random people. Their answer was Like "got used to them"

@alice seriously, every time I have to look at a website on someone else's computer I am in shock

@alice Very, very slowly.

@503bartley@pdx.social @alice@lgbtqia.space
I love Waterfox, but I don't use facecrook so the negates the need for most of those extensions. I also love Want and Ecosia.🩷

@alice They buy faster computers every year because magically theirs got so much slower.