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[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 283 points 10 months ago

The ancient trials redefined for the modern age

[-] fishos@lemmy.world 148 points 10 months ago

Really fitting since usually the correct one isnt any of those. It'll be the non-flashy, plain text "download here" link.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 85 points 10 months ago

KNIGHT: He chose... poorly.

Indy studies the array of download buttons.

ELSA: It would not be made ~~out of gold~~ with Javascript.

Indy picks up another cup, a simple earthenware jug.

INDY: That’s the ~~ cup~~ text link of ~~a carpenter~~ of raw HTML.

He and Elsa exchange a look.

INDY: There’s only one way to find out.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 70 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ublock origin makes short work of these lol

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 61 points 10 months ago
[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Me with my element blocker "Yes it is now fuck off <3"

[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago
[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago
[-] Poop@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 months ago

The real ancient trials were on the 1990s warez sites where you'd have to hunt for a 2 pixel square link on a giant page of porn ads and other trickery. Then you could get part 42 of 78 of a .rar for some game. Repeat another 77 times and wait a week for it to download on 33.6k and you got a free game!

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

And using flash get to manage your shitty download speed to resume disconnections and multithreading the 5 kbps stream to max out your download.

[-] Poop@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

How did I forget about the crazy download managers! Nice one

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Back when I had this problem, I got past it by hovering over the links and buttons and looking at the little url preview in the corner. The real one will either be on the same domain as the website or it will be something like gofile. The fake ones will go to domains like ads.doubleclick.net and ofksheugj.info.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

the real trial always seems to actually be installing firefox with ublock

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Really? I haven't had any issues on the 4 devices I've tried it on (Manjaro, Android, Windows, Manjaro). And the Windows was a locked down school version.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I think the joke is how many people are stubborn to move to firefox

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago
[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

both, first lazy and then stubborn in defending their choice

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Every time I see this I expect them to show someone called Wesley.

this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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