It's sad how few people have ad blocking.
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2025
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Best Holiday present: Uninstall $SHIT_BROWSER and install Librewolf with uBO(which LW ship with by default).
You could also just tell them
Boring. Using the environment to your advantage. Sun Tzu approves.
Straight people aren’t big into the communication thing; they view it as unnecessary training wheels on their journey to direct telepathic communication
This is such a strange generalization.
Worry not my friend, it is a joke. One meant to draw attention to the absurdity its structure by being directed at such a large mass of people. The majority of all people, really.
Growing up queer, this is a style of joke that absolutely bombards you. It’s very visceral, no? Being openly attacked or deemed inferior because of who you are, when you know there isn’t a shred of truth to it?
But while intended as humor, as the conversation here develops, I am reminded that many of the people on Lemmy, who I love, may in fact be vulnerable in this situation where the intent is not made clear. My apologies it this has caused any anxiety, hopefully this will serve as proper clarification
on the other hand, i like being surprised by gifts :( i don't want to know what i'm getting beforehand
Domestic ~~abuse~~ telepathy
As a straight person, this is 100% true and I am in constant pain because of it.
Happy cake day.
Ads?
What ads?
I mean, who TF is not running with a proper adblocker and multiple other anti-spyware and anti-malware add-ins in their browser?
I’ve been doing so since 2004, when the first adblocker came out for Firefox. Except for system set-ups of client machines and working on the machines of new clients, I haven’t seen an ad in over 20 years.
Of course, you actually need to be running Firefox to have anything approaching an effective in-browser adblocker… Chrome has massively neutered adblockers into near uselessness.
Seriously, people:
- uBlock Origin
- Smart Https
- Security Tweaks
- Referer Control
- Redirect AMP to HTML
- Privacy Tweaks
- Privacy Settings
- Link Revealer
- Link Protector
- Link Cleaner
- Decentraleyes
And for those on mobile:
- Mullvad encrypted DNS base (TLS) configuration profile (No app needed. Works at the system level, so it works across all installed apps where ads are not loaded from the same app URI/API as the official content)
You really shouldnt need all of these extensions, and the more extensions you use the more fingerprint able you are. May I suggest stock LibreWolf/IronFoxn or Mullvad Browser instead?
the more fingerprint able you are
Missed Privacy Tweaks, did ya? Look closer.
It lists these tweaks, none of which I understand to have anything to do with extension detection/fingerprinting:
extension detection/fingerprinting
So you’re talking about bot detection and bot denial of a website, then.
Well, I’m not a bot.
No, I'm talking about extension detection being used as part of the process to fingerprint your browser to identitify you as a unique person.
That's used to track you across websites for ad targeting and other shit such as but not limited to sites displaying different prices to different people based off information they've gathered on you and connected to your unique fingerprint.
Fingerprinting effects a lot more than the ads you don't see due to blocking them and bot detection. Please read up on it more instead of running with assumptions.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/browser-extensions/
Please give this article a read
Notable section from the Wikipedia article linked there as "stand out":
I'm not well versed on it, but I believe installed extensions are directly query-able through javascript or html5 on sites loaded by the browser.
Preaching to the choir.
The list above is the vast majority of my add-ins. I don’t use any which are sufficiently duplicated in the browser or which are not required for enhanced security.
I am not one of those people with multiple dozens of add-ins.
You say you aren't one of those people but i genuinely dont believe most of those extensions are needed if youre using hardened Firefox (LibreWolf/IronFox/Mullvad Browser/Tor)
I mean, who TF is not running with a proper adblocker and multiple other anti-spyware and anti-malware add-ins in their browser?
The average person.
Prettt sure DecentralEyes has been abandoned. I think LocalCDN is the reccomendation now.
I also believe there are ways to configure uBlock Origin to handle referrer stuff, clean links, for smart https stuff, and to handle redirect links as well. Probably something you can do with it for amp links as well.
Also, just know that every extension installed absolutely spikes up your uniqueness to fingerprinting.
every extension installed absolutely spikes up your uniqueness to fingerprinting.
Missed Privacy Tweaks, did ya? Look closer.
That's so disgusting to me... Social communication through targeted ads? What are we even doing here...
You can always think of it as wasting ad budgets on things you could trivially tell each other
That's distopian as fuck.
It's not the hints I have a problem with...
No one isn wasting and budgets, they would get ads anyway.
First of all, kinda cringe to not just have basic communication, second, that's not the point of a present.
My wife was looking for neck massagers online so i bought her one for her birthday. She really loves it. I would never have thought of that without seeing the Amazon recommendations.
Does everyone not have their own profile? I lock mine when I walk away - login to your profile.
Why can't she just say what she wants?
Women think it is “cute”, and themselves are so big on micro/subtle nonverbal communication that they legitimately don’t realize that it goes completely unnoticed by pretty much all men who aren’t gay or TG in the first place.
What’s even funnier is that if you call them out on this they gaslight you by calling you stupid and unintelligent. Like, men get absolutely no practise with this form of communication. Father-son and man-to-man communication is almost blindingly obvious and explicitly spelled out. Asking a man to pick up on subtle cues and hints is like asking a blind person to call out all the colours in the vicinity by touch alone.
Being raised with sisters help. It's not so much a woman only issue, since men often struggle to describe abstract emotions that women are raised to recognize. I struggle to talk to my dad about a lot of things I can talk to mom about.
People need BOTH forms of communication. People need to learn to adapt to communication as it evolves within a relationship or society.