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Well these days the OS is the virus
Trust me, we do.
If you see that many ads you still have malware, we just call them apps now.
“This website has loads of apps”
Fedi is great because if you saw as many ads as I see every day on fedi, it meant you had at least one virus, not three.
Facts.
I mean, I haven’t seen that shit on my system in years because I run redundant adblockers but… when viewing someone elses computer… it’s crazy.
I gave my grandma ublock origin
Going to my parents’ house is mildly maddening. They watch network and cable TV… The sheer number of ads is unbelievable to me.
Imagine paying money to watch ads.
Listen, I’ll admit I’ve never experienced a virus download automatically and rarely experienced a virus from a sketchy file.
But nearly all of gen Z remembers the free internet. Even up to 2016 it was still possible to view every major website without an account.
Every time I disable my ad block, or I see Internet Archive fail to save a webpage, or I’m forced to download the app for the privilege of scrolling down a thread; I get mad at what was taken.
We didn’t realize how brief the era of mostly reliable and always verifiable universal information access would be. Now we can’t trust any video because Sam Alton threw gasoline on the AI fire to make a failed Tiktok clone.
get this man a true
You gui’s have ads ? Never seen one in 10 years
It’s so jaring to use my work computer, I can’t instead an ad blocker, and it’s over vpn which avoids my networks pihole. How do people deal with that level of advertising?
I’m a command line, not a GUI
Now I’m waiting for Microslop to introduce ads to cmd and powershell
I think Ubuntu beat Microsoft to it, actually. “Get more security with Ubuntu Pro!”
Still, Watch MS make it so much worse. We just have to wait for people to start using window’s command line interface!
Normies don’t understand adblockers. I mean, its a tough concept, like quantum mechanics. Can’t expect them to know how to hit a button.
I know so many people who claim it’s just easier to watch ads and click them away and tell me about their little hacks, it’s crazy. Looking at a strangers phone gives me anxiety. My sister always tells me that watching tv isn’t that bad, and she’d record it and skip ads, which to me is already insane. NOW YOU CAN’T DO THAT ANYMORE. She said she can still skip it, but not on the “good” movies, it still works on some trash tv and daytime stuff. They clearly took that away by choice and she’s still like: it’s just like 5 ads a movie, we just go to tge toilet or whatever. Same with navigating the internet. Well yeah, you just ignore the pop ups and agree to all the cookies
I haven’t watched a live TV show outside of a game at a bar in like 30 years. Hell, I had tuner cards in a MythTV box and it would strip the ads for me based on the volume changes back when I paid for cable.
The complacent laziness and stupidity of people is why we have ads on everything today. 30 seconds on Google and the ads would be gone. Instead they just click through.
Fuck, I miss the old internet.
I do too. I know it’s a very elitist thing to say, but the internet, while not as vast as it is now, was way better when it took some effort to browse the web. Like a pc, a modem, some knowledge, troubleshooting etc. It was like a bouncer, keeping some people out. I haven’t had home tv for like 15 years now, and the only time i see live tv is when i’m at someone’s home and the tv is running. No joke, i would rather not watch tv at all. Same with the internet. I’ve never been a social media guy, but someone tried to show me something on facebook the other day, the last time i saw facebook was when someone showed me their farm on farmville. It was pure nightmare fuel. I can not imagine apending my time like that. I know different people enjoy different things, but that seems really dumb, and these people are the reason you even beed adblockers, vpn, a piehole, cookie deniers and whatnot.
What people put up with on Facebook, especially after things like Cambridge Analytica, is utterly astounding to me. I burned my facebook account in something like 2007 after I heard about Zuckerberg’s “dumb fucks” statement.
And then they post pics of the grandchildren along with every piece of trivia to be used against them in years to come. Weirdos.
“Back in my day” if a platform or service would look at all your messages and sell the data it would be called active spyware and we treated that like the antichrist.
Software peaked around 2008. And that’s a looong time ago now.
Yes there has been a few improvements since then, but nothing that can really be said to compensate for the massive enshittification of performance, basic quality control, UI, UX, pricing as well as the anti-user practices that have become commonplace.
Sad I never got to experience it.
The 2008 financial crises rendered me homeless through my teenage years and my early adult years. I went from experiencing Windows XP/Mac OSX 10.4 straight to Windows 8.1 (I just missed Vista and was quickly introduced to Windows 10).
You missed Windows 7 because you were homeless? Bruh.
Hope you’re doing better. At least it’s the golden age of Linux right now!
Yeah, ditched Windows 10 as soon as I could. Most of the tools I use have Linux native versions.
Dude I just pirate shit and read books. You all just bare backing the internet?
Reminded me of this certified hood classic.
Oh my word I forgot about that!! Thank you!
The whippersnappers think that as long as the ad is coming from someone hot and it’s in their FYP, it must not be an ad.
People have a FYP?
(what’s a FYP?)
For You Page.
The feed.
What ads? uBlock, Sponsorblock and an automatic cookie decliner and the Internet experience is only hindered by log ins.
Also change your DNS and if you can use a VPN and a faked user profile like user agent switcher.
Sites these days collect all the data they can, that includes your screen size, system data like sound drivers and operating system or your language and IP Adresss which sites you visit at what times (that is where the DNS comes into play).
But yeah, the Internet has changed a lot and for the worse. So far there are ways to mitigate them.
gen-z and alpha don’t know anything about computers.
frankly, i have no idea how anything is even maintained. it’s probably on the backs of millions of first and second-gen immigrants.
some of these dumbasses i work with can’t even navigate basic windows features–and these are college bound young adults.
I read comments like yours and always thought it was hyperbole, then I became a bioinformatics teacher.
Not hyperbole. iOS and Android destroyed future generation’s ability to understand traditional computing.
They can’t unzip a file, they can’t navigate a directory hierarchy deeper than one level, they can’t reply to an email without replying to all recipients.
A class about BLAST had to become a class about how to install a program on Windows.
wait… how to install a program on windows? you mean download the installer, yes, yes, next, i agree, next next next, done?
It’s asking for a “path to install”? I don’t want to go for a walk
The main installation method young people run into nowadays is the Steam or phone app store experience: search for the thing in the store, click “install,” wait briefly, click “open.” Installing a program from a website or physical media is not as common an activity as it used to be — other than installing Steam itself or similar, for example, which is a quickly forgotten inconvenience.
except when a website stops working when you enable adblockers, ive ever used monkeyscript
gen z here, you’re thinking of young gen z or gen alpha. us old gen zs have a lot in common with milenials, as in we’re the ones doomed to export to .pdf and “fix the wi-fi please”
Hello friend, welcome to the next ten years of explaining to people that being 29 and being 39 are not the same
ome of these dumbasses i work with can’t even navigate basic windows features–and these are college bound young adults.
It’s funny, if you have a generation that hasn’t ever needed to use Windows, wasn’t trained on it, pretty hard to knock them for it. It would be the same thing as taking Windows users and dumping them on Mac, or worse, dumping them into a rando Linux distro and saying ‘good luck, why do you suck at this’. Its a pretty popular YouTube video topic for the tech sphere lately though.
Can you believe these nincompoops can’t even boot into DOS?
the same thing as taking Windows users and dumping them on Mac
Which has happened to me and was no problem, its very intuitive to use most systems.
Advertising is the most prolific form of environmental pollution wrought by commerce.
It needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking, and every instance of it must be exhaustively scrutinised and required to be justified.
Thank you. People use power usage against cryptocurrency but their eyes glaze over when I ask how much of our resources are wasted serving constant ads to every screen in existence.
You mean the people who consume ads get extra work breaks throughout the day?
That could be a perverse incentive to have businesses curtail their excretions.
Now w3c has decided our browsers should run everybody’s malware, and it’s totally fine if every site breaks if we try to disable the malware
