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

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      7·
      10 months ago

      You forgot the endless popups in the 2000s, which led to every browser integrating a popup blocker since then (and which often fail to stop actual malicious popups, no less)

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        2·
        10 months ago

        Yes, in these years are a lot of pop ups, pop unders among other crap in some pages, but normally in most pages there was, apart of an ocassinal Banner not much else to justify an adblocker. But nowadays, between ads, clickbaits, cookie consent, adblocker detections and ant-adblocker, paywalls and other shit like these, you need a lot of extensions and scripts if you don’t want that the page fills your browser and HD with all kind of PUPs and unwanted scripts, apart of an ad/trackerblocker. It’s a cats and mouse game between companies which want to track and profile you with all kind of dirty tricks, and the user and devs continuos searching contrameasures to show them the middle finger.

    • Y|yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Almost, but needs a few tweaks:

      • Content should be border-to-border in the 2000 panel.

      • Needs to be 3 lines of content in 2010 and only two lines of content in 2018.

      • 2018 needs a slide-over autoplay video on the bottom-left of the content space.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
      5·
      10 months ago

      Oh god

      But seriously, my favorite are online stores for products, but you can’t buy their product because they have pop-up ads for other products that interfere with their websites you can’t actually view or buy their fucking product.

      It’s like, insane. And probably why Amazon still exists.

      At this point I just want the internet to go away

    • ruplicant@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      10 months ago

      i got stuck on the second screen

      i’m not sure if what seems to be a poignant interactive demonstration of internet UX enshitification is shallow/incomplete or depends on javascript/trackers that my browser is blocking. it’s ironic either way

      • Alex@feddit.ro
        2·
        10 months ago

        it might have js, I’m not sure. It isn’t the true modern web experience without 12MB of JS on a blog post/article, though :)

  • Radioactive Radio@lemm.ee
    6·
    10 months ago

    My former co-worker was daily driving his browser without any extensions and didn’t see anything wrong with it. I was watching him work one day and he was literally fighting a battle against the unholy pop-ups just tryna download some free fonts. What could’ve been done in 2 clicks took him minutes to do trying to close all the ads and tabs kept opening, videos kept playing. It was painful just to watch.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    I remember some video. It was a joke about IT remoting in to fix a computer. The icons on the desktop were shaped like a dick. Then it guy took a screenshot and was like I’m definitely sending this to HR as he sorted them alphabetically. Then the other dude was like “no put it back, infant find anything!” And the line that sticks with me, the IT guy says “there’s no sort by dick”.

    https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE

  • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 months 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.

    • jarredpickles87@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months 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.

      • SuperDuper@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months 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.

        • Grumpy@sh.itjust.works
          0·
          10 months ago

          Just pay for a good offline sudoku app. It probably costs less than a cup of coffee. Then we’ll all be happier.

    • Squirrel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I always forget about my adblocker until I need to use a browser without one. It’s really pretty miserable.

      • Jamie@jamie.moe
        3·
        10 months ago

        I helped someone I know out with a thing on their computer and got blasted by ads because they didn’t use an ad blocker.

        Those two minutes on the Internet really had me questioning how anyone manages to use it raw without going insane.

        • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
          1·
          10 months ago

          Maybe if we tell them uBlock Origin is a condom for their browser, they’ll understand?

          What a sentence to type out

          • Jamie@jamie.moe
            1·
            10 months ago

            I see it that way. You don’t dive into some strange without protection, don’t let your computer do it with websites.

            • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
              2·
              10 months ago

              It’s always difficult with digital matters, since there isn’t anything tangible and concrete to show.

              Like, there’s no shady person following them with a notebook and reporting back to their boss all day, but that is kinda what’s happening, just invisible to the user.

              My pihole is pretty good at showing family how many connections their apps make are completely unnecessary to their actual functions. That’s a good illustration to start with.

  • ☆Luma☆@lemmy.ca
    3·
    10 months ago

    Simultaneously the worst and funniest thing I’ve ever seen - got together with my now ex and she opens up her laptop to show me her bank statement. I look over and I see IN REAL TIME all of the English text convert into wingdings.

    “No don’t change it, its really funny; I like it!!!” I bet, super funny - but it’s your friggin’ bank account! Who knows what else it’s doing besides being a bit silly?

  • Hexbear2 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    In Firefox, on Linux, behind a VPN and firewall with ad blocker, I run 5 different privacy/ad blocking extensions. I keep hearing about adds, but not seeing them.

    Supposedly Youtube now is getting more agressive on this? I wouldn’t know. Haven’t seen a Youtube notice about it yet.

    But really, I dream of the day youtube is replaced by something else. Fracture Youtube into 1,000 pieces and scatter it into the wind.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
      1·
      10 months ago

      It’s bound to happen. Louis Rossmans new app Grayjay is an interesting attempt at allowing users to step away from the YouTube walled garden

  • AutomaticJack@beehaw.org
    2·
    10 months ago

    I once had a user whose PC would freeze every time they tried to see their desktop. Like, you minimise something full screen and the PC would freeze for a few minutes and crawl while the desktop was in view.

    Turns out they had more than 4,000 items on their desktop.

    That day I learned where Windows puts icons that don’t fit on the desktop (it stacks them all on the first icon’s place, lol). And this wasn’t even the problem they called about! They were just grumpily blaming Microsoft and working around it for years.

    I guess my point is computer illiterate/belligerent people will find a way around the problems they cause and just blame something/someone else.

  • Rolando@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months 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.

    • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

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

  • netburnr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

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