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why no ad blocker.. I haven't seen these banner ads in over 10 years, or if I'm on someone else's computer. and then I install the blocker and let them enjoy freedom
I dont have admin perms to do that. Also it wipes everything each time you log on
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You don't need admin access to install browser extensions. Every PC I touch at work has Ublock Origin or Ublock Lite (if it has Chrome) installed by me.
Your school PCs being wiped every reboot is a blessing. You can install whatever the hell you want and never get in trouble for it. If I were you, I'd toss Firefox Portable on a flash drive with Ublock Origin already installed and ready to go. Or just install Firefox directly on the PC every time you use it if flash drives are blocked (just click "no" at the admin prompt and it will still install anyway).
So sick of ad blocker comments on lemmy. I see them constantly, and it’s like, do you realize that 99% of the human population using Google don’t have ad blockers on? Do you realize that millions of us use computers that we don’t own/can’t control? Do you realize that corps spend millions each year to think of ways to get around ad blockers and broaden their ads’ reach?
Probably gonna get downvoted cuz this is lemmy, after all, but the smarm needs to be reigned in. So fucking annoying—nobody is impressed.
so don't talk about something is beneficial, free and easy to setup and makes the tool nicer to use? gotcha.
Maybe you should code something to block those comments from your view.
Bring your own OS on a stick? There are ways around it lol, especially in a university setting where youre pretty much expected to fuck up the IT restrictions
Getting mad about adblock evangelism is cringe imo but bringing your own os on a stick to use in a corporate environment is a great way to get fired (and probably not be able to access the corporate tools you need to do your job anyways). Maybe less so in a university but messing with the public computers like that is probably not a good idea either.
I dunno about uni or anything more 'serious', but I did this a decent bit in hs to let me sidestep the parental/student control bullshit and let me play games while the box I was using was 'offline'. Helps that I was far and away the smartest kid in the room for tech, and so I'd often aid teachers and they'd look the other way when I finished my assignment in 15 minutes and proceeded to do whatever I wanted for the remaining 75. In computer hardware class, I ran a minecraft server for others to join. In business and finance, played tanks, tower defense, and other 2D multi-player games with others in my row. In both drivers ed and physical ed, I'd play racing games on my laptop; because there was no internet in either location, I'd hotspot my phone. I remember another student I was friends with bringing their laptop and playing WoW on my hotspot as well.
Good times.
Yeah it’s much easier to get away with that stuff in HS depending on the school, they often don’t have the funding for competent IT.