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@DavidNielsen someone asked "how do you even keep track of all your followers?" and I said I make tiny hair dolls for each one, so I can tell whenever one is out of place.

Then I spent over an hour searching for the perfect photo of a small, real human (or cat) hair effigy.

I was disappointed that I couldn't find just the right image, so I started searching for felting instructions so I could make my own.

Like a perfectly normal person.

I'm now the proud owner of this.

Like a perfectly normal person.

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Dizzy 0069 Stiff Assed Crip

I've been pushing for ad blocking at work. None of our browsers have any ad blocking or ad prevention measures implemented or permitted.

The amount this is adding to our mobile data bill must be huge, not to mention the constant interruptions and shit thrown at people when they are working and looking for stuff.

That's one of the advantages of WFH - my Kinkpad is built for speed and shit blocking, which means I can find things out far quicker than on my work issued device.

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Aprazeth

Not to mention the additional power consumption/battery drain

At times I am "forced" to use a regular browser with no extensions, hosts file, pi-hole or similar. And I actually audibly curse every. Single. Time.

Also, countdown till someone boasts about their datacap :blobcatbusiness:

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Elle 💗

It always surprises me when people complain about ads, because I would have expected them to have tried solving their issue, or be asking about a way to solve it. Not judging, just odd.

I rarely see an ad to the point where I'm viscerally offended when I do. At the risk of sounding boomerish, I'm not sure exactly when, but some time between the 90s and now ads when from, "Let me show you how great my product is!" to "Let our marketing team jerk themselves off because fuck our customers"

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@aly I have both uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, but I don't know if they are redundant.

I thought about PiHole but it seems a bit overkill for me. Other than ad-blocking across the whole LAN, does it do something that uBlock doesn't? I worry about my roommates having something internet-related break on them because I'm putting something between them and the internet, and I'm just a common network moron.

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@DavidNielsen @samir You mean not everyone owns a copy of that? How strange.

I also recommend the Cat Castles book. Cardboard castles etc for the discerning feline

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5…

Cat Castles by Carin Oliver: 9781594749414 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Build your cat “paw-some” homemade habitats with easy instructions and common materials.   Shoeboxes and paper bags are fine for other cat...
PenguinRandomhouse.com
@samir, somewhat
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I ask myself that question all the time.

I use pi-hole and in-browser ad-blockers (uBlock Origin in Firefox). My phone is set up to always be connected to my home network via VPN while I'm out and about, so any browsing goes through my home network and is filtered by pi-hole.

My only pain point are Youtube ads on my Apple TV. I don't watch YT but my daughter does, and the ads on that are absolutely obnoxious.

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Toekneegee

The last time my wife handed me her phone to look at something in her web browser I asked if she needed anything in the open tabs. There were so many that Chrome no longer listed the number. I then had to disable notifications from who knows how many websites. It's probably time for me to do that again for her.

She's resistant to any kind of change, so changing browsers or adding a VPN is out of the question for her.

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The scary thing is that most of them "don't mind". They're also watching "regular" TV with ad breaks every 10-15 minutes and barely even think about it happening. They're just soaking it up subconsciously. They don't know there's an alternative. They haven't got a slightest clue what Fediverse, Mastodon, Matrix et al or what the concept of self-hosting is. Some of them have noticed Signal mentioned, since our national police force twice went out and said that parents should be worried if they see their children using it. They don't know what it is though. When you try to explain what it does you can see the their eyes glazing over with disinterest almost immediately. They all still use Facebook, Instagram and TikTok all the time. They just "don't mind". The ones using YouTube don't really care about the massive amounts of ads there either. This is all ages from at least 28 and up (I very rarely meet or come across people younger than that). Finding someone working outside anything related to IT who is even remotely interested in this is still _super rare_, even in circles where government or state secrets are being handled. Getting someone at your employer to make it possible to add an ad-blocker to the Edge browser on work laptops is unthinkable. "A what?" The Snowden revelations didn't make even a dent over here. This is in Scandinavia.

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