God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
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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.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@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. 🫣
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@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
@renardboy @Landsil @alice perhaps I should take up that hobby, I have a #GoldenRetriever, she sheds like crazy, I could make so many sweaters.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@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.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice@lgbtqia.space I once asked few random people. Their answer was Like "got used to them"
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice seriously, every time I have to look at a website on someone else's computer I am in shock
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice Very, very slowly. -
@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
@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.🩷 -
God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice They buy faster computers every year because magically theirs got so much slower.
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@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.🩷 -
@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 How did you get a sample of hair for each of us, I wonder?
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@alice
Of course, the obvious, expected, normal procedure for this situation.
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@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
@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 ? -
God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
@alice I so wish firefox on iOS would finally add addon support. The only reason I still use Safari.
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God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?
Wiith lots and lots of content blocking in place ...
