We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news. But there’s something in the air—a vibe shift, a sense that things are about to change.

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    1 year ago

    Oh the irony, I opened the site which has no less than 3 popups and it immediately fried my mobile browser. I had to kill the tab.

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      My pihole guaranteed that my experience remained pristine. The author didn’t make any money from my visit, but their income loss is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

      Which is really what the whole problem here boils down to.

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      1 year ago

      And people ask why we use adblocks… my potato computer can’t even browse the web without blocking as much stuff as I can.

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        I use pihole at home, but when I take my laptop out and about, I sometimes notice its fan going wild. Shut down the tab I’m reading and it calms down. What the hell are running on these sites?

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          I remember one time wwhen I was browsing reddit for a few minutes (booted righ before, doing nothing else, fedora os, minimum stuff installed, no unusual activity in the process list, automatic updates disabled) and noticed my fans spinning a lot, so I opened the system monitor to check what was happening. It was showing high cpu usage in a firefox process, and it registered 40bg of downloaded data!

          It never happened again, so I guess it was some sort of bug they fixed, but still, it was something so bizarre to see.

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      1 year ago

      Oh God, it’s all over now, the bed bug experts have been compromised