I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable

  • SamXavia@kbin.run
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    1 year ago

    @gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de I turned off my ad blocker by accident the other day and freaked out as the internet was unbearable.

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    1 year ago

    My retired parents live with me. I went ahead and put a PiHole on our home wifi. A day later my mother was literally complaining that she couldn’t click on ads on facebook. I told her those are ads and they track her and she says “well everyone likes to use the internet how they like to use it… can you put it back the old way? I want to look at these shoes”. Can’t fucking win.

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      1 year ago

      My wife turns off the WiFi on her phone to avoid the pihole. She does this so she can watch the ads in her games to get an extra life or whatever. You’ll never win on that front and I won’t either.

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        1 year ago

        I get so pissed off when I try to play sudoku on the bus and it forces me to watch 30 seconds of ads between each game. And then during the game I have to ignore the flashing banner ad at the bottom of the screen.

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    1 year ago

    As I recall, back in the late 90s there was a story in the Wall Street Journal about a man who loved receiving email spam. After a long day’s work he would go home and relax by looking through his email spam and order things.

    Some people are just like that.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t like spam but I do like a good scam email, especially if they’ve actually given it some plot.

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    1 year ago

    I have it on good authority, if you type Google into Google, you can break the internet.