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Andromxda ,
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Use an adblocker in your browser and an ad-blocking DNS server like Mullvad DNS (it's super easy on Android, just search for Private DNS in the settings and set it to base.dns.mullvad.net), AdGuard DNS (same thing, super easy, just set it to dns.adguard-dns.com) or NextDNS on your phone (and ideally on all your other devices). There's also an app called AdAway, but it takes up the VPN slot so you can't use it together with a VPN.

moon ,

The web back then didn't have AdBlock. Now it does. So not really lol.

krnl386 ,
@krnl386@lemmy.ca avatar

Actually the ad matches the article. To me the ad is “fringe” and it has infested the “mainstream” (CNN).

M0oP0o ,
@M0oP0o@mander.xyz avatar

What? That is gold, not Mildly Infuriating at all.

niktemadur ,

Remember when the web didn't suck?

No, I don't. Not since 2000, when I logged on from home for the first time. The majority of it has always sucked. Then the web can suddenly do new things... and finds new ways to suck.
It has, however, always had excellent little areas and corners.

Dozzi92 ,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

Right? Do you remember going to websites and your computer would yell out that you were watching porn? Ads would burst forth like you just won fucking Solitaire. Shit took forever to download, and if you lost connection in the middle, start over!

I guess if you started using the Internet after like 2008, when things really started to take off, you saw a golden hour. But it was a dangerous place in the early 2000s, although I learned a lot about how to unfuck computers in my quest for boobs as a teenager.

jdf038 ,

Knowing about "Temporary Internet Files" while my family was unaware made me feel like some sort of God of knowledge.

Oh and yeah I think I found porn there hooray!

tacosplease ,

I miss early YouTube that had full episodes of just about any TV show illegally uploaded without any sort of copyright enforcement.

I also miss reddit, but what it used to be is gone forever.

FMEEE ,

The only thing infecting me reading this is cringe.

technocrit ,

The MSM tries to act like the voice of reason when they're the biggest purveyors of disinfo by a wide margin.

perishthethought OP ,

If you mean via ads like this, I would agree. They could do more to filter out the garbage.

But if you mean in their content, I'm not seeing that, beyond the usual (long history) leaning to one side or another.

But these are two very different things and shouldn't be equated.

ulterno ,
@ulterno@lemmy.kde.social avatar

I only had to play an hour of "Thief" to thank myself I don't have door knobs.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

me: what a silly article who could ever fall for this

also me: buys lots of tinfoil just in case

Dozzi92 ,
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world avatar

Tinfoil never goes bad, it can't hurt to stock up!!!

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

CNN and other news organizations in a nutshell

CanadaPlus , (edited )

In Canada, we have a state broadcaster, which is nice. The current election frontrunner, according to the polls, is a guy who's made it his entire life's quest to get rid of it. Sigh.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

I can't say I would want state run media but then again, I'm not Canadian

CanadaPlus ,

We have private ones too, to be clear. And the CBC doesn't actually take orders on what to run.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

In the US we have NPR (for some reason)

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

this is supposed to be political, WHAT DO DOORKNOBS HAVE TO DO WITH POLITICS

AnUnusualRelic ,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

Knobs are common in politics. I'm not sure about doors.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

It's all knobs and knockers

hungryphrog ,
@hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Why are they quoting a wolf? They didn't talk the last time I checked.

Syd ,

Check again, it's getting crazy out there.

hungryphrog ,
@hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

oh shit

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

firefox and ublock origin will filter these right out

Glifted ,

I'm so frustrated with the internet right now. My wife started making Castile soap and I'm trying to find out if its some fu-fu-berry-bullshit or like an actual decent soap. Google is feeding me momfluencers (which range from 'fine but there is no accountability' to blatant grifters) and sites that are simply trying to sell this stuff. I'm going to try again with kagi tonight, but it's still very frustrating that I never know what to trust anymore. The bullshit is coming faster than I'm able to handle it

Ioughttamow ,

A good way to make your own soap without artificial fragrances in them. My wife has skin sensitive to fragrances, and most commercial soaps have fragrance (even unscented Yeesh)

FalseMyrmidon ,

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/castile-soap

That's a reputable org.

Glifted ,

You beautiful bastard, that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

I'm bookmarking that page. Thank you!

FalseMyrmidon ,

It was literally the first result on DuckDuckGo for me FWIW.

Glifted ,

I used to use DuckDuckGo but I found it wasn't very good. Haven't tried in a few years though

Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.melroy.org avatar

I wanna know who did the financing for the ad. A tinfoil company? Big Tough Softy Iron? A Goog guy worn off yoga?

(I aim to not say the fifthglyph for all days to promote !avoid5)

Deebster ,
@Deebster@lemmy.ml avatar

It's an ad in your post, fittingly (although yours isn't particularly ironic).

Do you know of oulipo.social? No fifth symbols found on all of that domain.

Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.melroy.org avatar

thought it fit! >:)

ooh, kinda wonky of los oulipos to call that thing just cuz of that only work which had this gimmick

also i think that the original book allows using "the", in fact it also allows "me" and forms of "be". so los oulipos gonna <this is hard>, huh?

Aatube ,
@Aatube@kbin.melroy.org avatar

(btw i wanted to somehow word in "at least once per day", but found using "per", "every", "for each" etc challenging to translate)

Deebster ,
@Deebster@lemmy.ml avatar

"I might try to put up a (compliant) post a day for a half-fortnight"?

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