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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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[-] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

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.

And in public forums, it's also helpful for the next person who comes along. If that person is only exposed to one "side", they may never know there is an alternative.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago
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[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Washing hands, not eating off the floor, not drinking from the same bottle as 10 other people etc...

Just basic hygiene things

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

These answers reek of superiority complex. These are less "educating" others and more that so many of you have decided something specific is a big deal to you and in a proselytizing fashion you preach to others and when they don't give a shit or perhaps just dont have the emotional capacity to ALSO care about the thing you brought up, you take that as ignorance, when really it's just some people don't feel like caring that much about that specific concern you decided is uber important.

People aren't built to endless worry about every little horrible problem surrounding them and the world every fucking day.

Also, this whole forum feels like overreaction too. Just because "some" people didn't care for your input doesn't mean all didn't, but a lot of people overreact online. It's coupled with the usual "am I the only one who..." kind of crap. No. You aren't. You aren't the only genius who understands the world is shit and we're fucked.

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Reading more than a headline.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That AI safety is much more important than AI hurting copyright or artists.

I say this because the "AI sucks haha" and "AI just steals" retoric is very harmful to AI safety movement as people just don't believe AGI or even close-to-AGI will be capable enough to harm our society.

Currently many estimate that there's 1-20% chance that AGI could end our civilization. So fuck the copyright and fuck the artists when we're looking at ods like this we need to start preparing now even if it's 10 years away.

But alas, nobody can't think further out than the length of their nose and honestly I'm just hoping we're lucky enough to be in that 80% because clearly we're not going to do anything about it.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 20 hours ago

AI safety is definitely an important thing but when you follow it up with "AGI could end our civilization" you lose me.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

It sounds hyperbolic but if you assume it will reach human-level intelligence and will have the ability to update its own code, you very quickly have something much smarter than us. Whether it will want to help or hurt us is an unknown. Whether we can control something that's smarter than us (and getting smarter every second) is unlikely, IMO.

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[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I didn't think folks actually care about ads as much as you think. This place is a bubble in that regard.

For me that America isn't a hellscape for most. Yes there is disparity and it's growing, we should correct that. But gen z is still buying homes (more than millennials), most people have decent albeit over priced health care, and live better than large portions of the world.

[-] anothermember@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

I didn’t think folks actually care about ads as much as you think. This place is a bubble in that regard.

Nothing to do with ads for me, it's user tracking.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

America isn’t a hellscape

gasp How dare you...

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

You laugh but it draws the ire of folks here and on reddit to a lesser degree.

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