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

@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 I also tried Yattee but it is outdated and suffers from serious usability issues.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.

@lemonlolita

@alice How did you get a sample of hair for each of us, I wonder?
@DavidNielsen

@alice
Of course, the obvious, expected, normal procedure for this situation.
@DavidNielsen

@alice @aly @calvin

I haven’t heard of GoodSense; where do you download it?

@503bartley @alice Isn't Qwant a scam anymore ? It has been for a very long time.
As Neocities websites have been unreferenced by Bing lately, are they still available on Qwant ?

@alice I so wish firefox on iOS would finally add addon support. The only reason I still use Safari.