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When it comes to dealing with advertisements when they're surfing on their browsers. I've just learned recently about how Google has or is killing UBlock Origin on the Chrome browser as well as all Chromium based browsers too.

We've heard for years about people complaining, bitching, whining and vice versa about how they keep seeing ads. And those trying to help them, keep wasting time to tell these people that they're surfing without extensions. Whether it'd be on Chrome or Firefox or another browser.

By this point, I've long stopped being that helper because if you cared at all about the advertisements you see, you would've long had gotten on the wagon of getting adblockers by now. You bring this onto yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You don't need to stop informing others, I think stopping is bad. Just tune it down a bit, don't overexert yourself with it. Most will not care but it's still important to tell it to them. At some point, they might realize why it's a good idea.

Also, Google isn't immediately killing Ad/Content Blockers like uBO, they're doing it slowly. Which is much smarter. It will mean less resistance. Boiling the frogs (users) slowly has always been the best way of eventually reaching a certain goal, without too much resistance along the way. If you push the goal too fast and too hard, there will be massive resistance, backed by an immediate media backlash. You have to wait that out, spread it out, so that users and media forgets about it again. Also, uBO Lite for MV3 browsers is less effective, but many users won't notice a difference yet. Next steps will probably be to make it less and less effective over time, while claiming it will be better for the users overall, like offer better security from malicious addons that almost no one installs anyway, or whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 23 hours ago (12 children)

Before calling support, turning your device off and back on again will legitimately resolve 90% of your issues.

If you call the helldesk and the uptime of your device is more than 24 hours and you said you already rebooted it how can we trust anything else you say?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

Almost any support position to do with phones is horrible to help people with. No one wants to turn it off. No one wants to understand their bill. No one accepts how data is used. No one thinks they need to pay for their devices. It's a vast landscape of ignorance and entitlement.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (28 children)

That if they vote third party before we can get rid of the first-past-the-post system, they are helping their ideological opposite. And a corollary: if they do it because of the genocide in Gaza and Trump encourages a total wipeout of the Palestinian state like he's telegraphing, the blame for the deaths of those innocent civilians is on them for being self-righteous instead of honest.

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