God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
"59,196 tracking attempts blocked in the past seven days." -- DuckDuckGo on my phone.
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@alice oh that? Yeah, it's like running into burning building. Get in, get what you need, get out. Try and stay safe, expect to take damage.
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@alice oh that? Yeah, it's like running into burning building. Get in, get what you need, get out. Try and stay safe, expect to take damage.
@alice also, very much expect to not get what you went in for.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice Slowly.
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@alice oh that? Yeah, it's like running into burning building. Get in, get what you need, get out. Try and stay safe, expect to take damage.
@Iwillyeah @alice try not to breathe
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@DavidNielsen someone asked "how do you even keep track of all your followers?" and I said I make tiny hair dolls for each one, so I can tell whenever one is out of place.
Then I spent over an hour searching for the perfect photo of a small, real human (or cat) hair effigy.
I was disappointed that I couldn't find just the right image, so I started searching for felting instructions so I could make my own.
Like a perfectly normal person.
I'm now the proud owner of this.
Like a perfectly normal person.
@alice @DavidNielsen @samir You mean not everyone owns a copy of that? How strange.
I also recommend the Cat Castles book. Cardboard castles etc for the discerning feline
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/541810/cat-castles-by-carin-oliver/
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice that might be why they seem so pissed for no reason all the time.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice I'm glad I'm not the only one searching for that information.
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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.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@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.
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We had a little felt cat made out of our previous cat's hair.
This one isn't finished yet but it will probably be a hat.@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
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@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
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice
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@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)
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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.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@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 FacebookAlternative providers https://goeuropean.org & https://docs.proton.me/doc?mode=open-url&token=NR710FE3MW#FgIAeN9UoR91
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@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.
@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.
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@alice I ask myself this question every time I sit down at my dad's computer.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@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
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@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.
