Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

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• AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Click to win a FREE LOBSTER Dinner 🦀🦞🦐

  Man I miss this era of the internet. It truly felt like a new frontier.

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I clicked, but all I got was a dancing stripper and something called Conficker.

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• terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Peak internet wdym

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No argument there, especially with Bonzi Buddy lol

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• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “2020 search”

  Bruh someone’s grandma needs help, we need to fix this computer, it looks like it’s about to get stuck on zombo.com.

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  • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nothing wrong with getting stuck on zombo.com. After all you can do anything there.

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Or Jen hahaha

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• Domino@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I want a re-made Bonzi buddy with AI.

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t vouch for these, as I have not used them. But, I found this rewritten one and this one with LLM.

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• AlwaysNurture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I remember toolbar days… I used to lov— sorry i admit this … Installing them … shivers for my sins

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• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  needs more sheep

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• 486@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, Bonzi Buddy!

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Then you could agree with any barely computer-savvy person that such things should be killed with fire.

  Now a lot of very competent person will try to persuade you how you are a luddite and wrong, except 5-10 years ago they’d also promise some bright tech future in addition to that, and now you’re just wrong because they can exist in that environment and like it, and you can’t.

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    you can’t.

    Can, but refuse. Big distinction for me. I’ve lived through these arguments once already, and have watched their computers keep over and die several time from the viruses these toolbars often bring, and I will now watch as their phones do the same.

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• techforwhat@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Could you expand on that thought a bit more? How is an app like the internet tool bars of old?

  Genuinely curious. I’m a little too young to have experienced internet toolbars like the ones in your image.

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  • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Every service and site had their own malicious toolbar they’d ask you to install and / sneak it into the install for other software. They also came loaded with malware and or siphoned data from you. Older/more tech illiterate people would have browsers looking like the picture above and come to you wondering why their computer is so slow or why they keep getting viruses.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Plus the even simpler: apps are like browser “toolbars” because they’re just a veneer to collect more data, add more tracking, appear to be useful without actually benefitting the user over a simple web page

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    • techforwhat@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ohh, I see. That makes a lot of sense. I understand the comparison now, ty 🙏

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    • Flisty@mstdn.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      @alekwithak @techforwhat Norton Antivirus is still at it

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  • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Hooboy

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• infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I missed that phase because I was using Netscape.

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Then you didn’t miss it. You glossed over it, like a boss

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• guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No Virtua Girl?

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