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@sam@chven.us

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[?]tiddy roosevelt »
@babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

Good lord. Talk of the ruination of the web on here today I decided to see what it was like just straight up raw dogging my browsing habits for a little while. No ad blockers, no blocking cookie popups etc.

People actually USE this?!

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[?]Scott »
@scottearle@poorlyrendered.com

@babe Outstandingly horrible, isn’t it?

    [?]Andrew Graves :arch: :linux: »
    @graves501@fosstodon.org

    @babe

    It's insane to me how people go on about their day without any adblock at all. Ads on your phone, fricking smart TV and on your laptop/PC - it would drive me nuts!

      [?]phryk 🏴 »
      @phryk@mastodon.social

      @babe Yeah, I have that same reaction every time I see someone use the web without an ad blocker.

      Seems absolutely surreal to me that people can use the web this way and not go absolutely crazy.

        [?]Neil Brown »
        @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

        @babe Absolutely hideous, isn't it.

        Our local newspaper site is very keen to have subscribers, but the experience is just so dreadful that I'm surprised that anyone pays.

        In seeking revenue - and, sure, they have to pay their staff, hosting bills etc. - they've made a product which is virtually unusable without an adblocker etc.

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          [?]tiddy roosevelt »
          @babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

          @neil Every news site is an absolute mess. Donate! Subscribe! Give us your email! Accept our cookie partners!

            [?]Sin Vega »
            @sinvega@mas.to

            @babe you could switch on some old dolt's computer from the early 2000s and even with 17 malware toolbars it would probably be more usable than the average website today

              [?]LovesTha🦒 »
              @lovestha@mtgjudge.social

              @babe I don't believe they do. That do other things instead of use their computer.

                [?]Big Pawed Bear »
                @bigpawedbear@masto.nu

                @babe the web is a horror without add blockers. I use them for accessibility reasons.

                  [?]AMS »
                  @AMS@infosec.exchange

                  @babe Honestly, I think this is the biggest reason people just stay on Facebook or Insta or Tiktok. Keeps the popups down.

                    [?]Eric LeVan »
                    @Strombo@jawns.club

                    @babe Exposure to raw Internet is a violation of human rights.

                      [?]Mark T. Tomczak »
                      @mark@mastodon.fixermark.com

                      @babe All the time. You end up basically blind to it. Or you end up channeling into the same sites over and over, which will tend to minimize the popups (once they have cookies on your machine, the popups start to relax; if you're always browsing with no cookies stored, they don't know who you are and they frontload all their questions).

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                        [?]sam ✅🇬🇪 »
                        @sam@chven.us

                        that's the way it was at some jobs that I've had. IT didn't want anybody to install any extensions. I did all of my personal browsing on my phone or laptop anyway, but every once in a while I'd pull up the weather or something on a work computer and have a lot of ads.

                          [?]Heathen 🐈 »
                          @heathen_cat@furs.social

                          @babe
                          I can't stand watching anything streaming without an ad blocker. The pharmaceutical ads feel like psychic warfare at this point.

                            [?]woollypigs »
                            @woollypigs@sudomakecake.com

                            @babe shocking ain't it. I'm right now trying to add an extra layer - pihole - on top of using waterfox/librefox/zen browsers, adblockers. Honestly I don't mind odd ads, but one after each sentence that is a bit much.

                              [?]billy joe bowers-🇺🇦 »
                              @billyjoebowers@mastodon.online

                              @babe

                              It freaks me out every time I see the raw internet experience.

                              I simply would not.

                                [?]Merc »
                                @merc@techhub.social

                                @babe What amazes me is that for some people this is normal. They've adapted and can actually kinda-sorta use the web when it's like that.

                                Not me. I'm easily distracted, and so many websites use video style ads. My eyes keep getting drawn away from the text to the video, just because they're distracted by the motion.

                                Maybe in time I would get used to it. But, at the moment my eyes / brain haven't been toughened up so the "raw dog" web is unusable for me.

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                                  [?]Elena Rossini ⁂ »
                                  @_elena@mastodon.social

                                  Just now I saw an article describing Bluesky as the “billionaire-proof” social platform - you should have seen my eye roll. Sure, “billionaire-proof” (quote marks necessary) AND funded by the crypto bros at Blockchain Capital.

                                  I wonder if the person who came up with the hype of Bluesky decentralization is the same who built up the myth of Space Karen as a genius.

                                  Sure Jan - but you can’t fool me.

                                  Media literacy and digital literacy are more needed than ever. I miss the late Neil Postman 🥲

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                                  [?]Ben Royce 🇺🇦 »
                                  @benroyce@mastodon.social

                                  @_elena

                                  a well known con artist aspect of is that it promises a lot, and delivers little

                                  and people buy into that

                                  then they rabidly defend the empty promises

                                  because they also literally bought into it: they purchased the , they need a financial return

                                  same is happening with "." because bluesky promised it, people have to believe it. and if you doubt it, you're being "unfair"

                                  (and i miss professor postman too: he was my thesis advisor at NYU)

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                                    [?]Elena Rossini ⁂ »
                                    @_elena@mastodon.social

                                    @benroyce Ben your last sentence made me GASP. What!?! Neil Postman’s writings (and speeches) have had such a profound influence on how I see the world. I think about him on a daily basis (as in “what would Neil Postman think about THIS?”). I can’t imagine what it must have been like to have had him as a thesis advisor. I’m in awe 🤩

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                                      [?]Ben Royce 🇺🇦 »
                                      @benroyce@mastodon.social

                                      @_elena while

                                      i had to go into his office alone which was intimidating while he gave me pointers. but he was warm and outgoing

                                      however, him and the faculty set up this retreat for the entire Media Ecology dept up to the Hudson Valley with all faculty and students, and i do remember the look of disappointment on his face when the students played a mock "Jeopardy" game with neil in the alex trebek role and i couldn't answer some rather rudimentary Bible Old Testament trivia 😅

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                                        [?]Elena Rossini ⁂ »
                                        @_elena@mastodon.social

                                        @benroyce awww 😅

                                        I would have been so intimidated

                                          [?]Deb Nam-Krane »
                                          @dnkboston@mastodon.social

                                          @benroyce That's the mark of every successful con, no? @_elena

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                                            [?]Ben Royce 🇺🇦 »
                                            @benroyce@mastodon.social

                                            @dnkboston @_elena

                                            yup

                                            sell them belief, not anything tangible

                                              [?]Deb Nam-Krane »
                                              @dnkboston@mastodon.social

                                              @benroyce And oh my god! I'm so jealous. I only started reading him in the last few years. You're a lucky duck. @_elena

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                                                [?]Richard Rathe »
                                                @nickrauchen@c.im

                                                @_elena

                                                Indeed...

                                                "Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems." - Neil Postman

                                                mdpaths.com/rrr/books/amusing_

                                                Book Cover Art "Amusing Ourselves to Death"

                                                Alt...Book Cover Art "Amusing Ourselves to Death"

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                                                  [?]sam ✅🇬🇪 »
                                                  @sam@chven.us

                                                  just moved my website to another server before I move. I've successfully rsynced my snac directory and reinstalled it on the new server with no apparent breakage.

                                                  edit: most of my posts are missing. I thought they were there after the move, but maybe it was just browser cache? I'll have to hook up the old drive to my laptop and see if I can resync

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