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

@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

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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.

@alice @eldersea flipper zero

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Wiith lots and lots of content blocking in place ...

@dusk Yes, it takes much longer. And I don't blame them, I just get a little jolt of "oops!" since they seem to do it without even considering what they are agreeing to. I also use ublock, and I like it.

@alice The scary thing is that most of them "don't mind". They're also watching "regular" TV with ad breaks every 10-15 minutes and barely even think about it happening. They're just soaking it up subconsciously. They don't know there's an alternative. They haven't got a slightest clue what Fediverse, Mastodon, Matrix et al or what the concept of self-hosting is. Some of them have noticed Signal mentioned, since our national police force twice went out and said that parents should be worried if they see their children using it. They don't know what it is though. When you try to explain what it does you can see the their eyes glazing over with disinterest almost immediately. They all still use Facebook, Instagram and TikTok all the time. They just "don't mind". The ones using YouTube don't really care about the massive amounts of ads there either. This is all ages from at least 28 and up (I very rarely meet or come across people younger than that). Finding someone working outside anything related to IT who is even remotely interested in this is still _super rare_, even in circles where government or state secrets are being handled. Getting someone at your employer to make it possible to add an ad-blocker to the Edge browser on work laptops is unthinkable. "A what?" The Snowden revelations didn't make even a dent over here. This is in Scandinavia.

@alice my bleary eyes read this as 'trackers topped' for a brief second.

@alice it is insane that even a simple merch store has like 100 trackers. And links no longer go to the page they go to like 4 link trackers in between.
I just want to see stuff without a 20 voyeur companies looking at me like “what’re ya buying?”

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@ck0 @alice Source?

@lemonlolita @alice Want?

@503bartley @alice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Creation
For years, they raised founds for providing outdated Bing indexes. The French tech press was full of articles about this and switching CEO while almost no one used it in France.
Even public administrations which officially adopted Qwant as their search engine didn't use it because of the low result quality.

@ck0 @alice Point well taken. Using Startpage now.