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What ads? uBlock, Sponsorblock and an automatic cookie decliner and the Internet experience is only hindered by log ins.
Also change your DNS and if you can use a VPN and a faked user profile like user agent switcher.
Sites these days collect all the data they can, that includes your screen size, system data like sound drivers and operating system or your language and IP Adresss which sites you visit at what times (that is where the DNS comes into play).
But yeah, the Internet has changed a lot and for the worse. So far there are ways to mitigate them.
gen-z and alpha don't know anything about computers.
frankly, i have no idea how anything is even maintained. it's probably on the backs of millions of first and second-gen immigrants.
some of these dumbasses i work with can't even navigate basic windows features--and these are college bound young adults.
I read comments like yours and always thought it was hyperbole, then I became a bioinformatics teacher.
Not hyperbole. iOS and Android destroyed future generation's ability to understand traditional computing.
They can't unzip a file, they can't navigate a directory hierarchy deeper than one level, they can't reply to an email without replying to all recipients.
A class about BLAST had to become a class about how to install a program on Windows.
wait... how to install a program on windows? you mean download the installer, yes, yes, next, i agree, next next next, done?
The main installation method young people run into nowadays is the Steam or phone app store experience: search for the thing in the store, click "install," wait briefly, click "open." Installing a program from a website or physical media is not as common an activity as it used to be — other than installing Steam itself or similar, for example, which is a quickly forgotten inconvenience.
o. o wild, i hope the kids discover the joy of installing independent software on their machines
It's asking for a "path to install"? I don't want to go for a walk
gen z here, you're thinking of young gen z or gen alpha. us old gen zs have a lot in common with milenials, as in we're the ones doomed to export to .pdf and "fix the wi-fi please"
Hello friend, welcome to the next ten years of explaining to people that being 29 and being 39 are not the same
except when a website stops working when you enable adblockers, ive ever used monkeyscript
It's funny, if you have a generation that hasn't ever needed to use Windows, wasn't trained on it, pretty hard to knock them for it. It would be the same thing as taking Windows users and dumping them on Mac, or worse, dumping them into a rando Linux distro and saying 'good luck, why do you suck at this'. Its a pretty popular YouTube video topic for the tech sphere lately though.
Can you believe these nincompoops can’t even boot into DOS?
Which has happened to me and was no problem, its very intuitive to use most systems.