It’s a harrowing experience I don’t intend to repeat any time soon.
Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 months agoEver watch somebody who doesn't know about all that use the rawdog Internet? It's amazing how people can just sit there and not go apeshit. The population has been conditioned.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 months ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It is pretty insane and depressing that pervasive, jaw-droppingly targeted ads have more or less been completely normalized with the vast majority of the population. I sometimes feel like I have a tin foil hat on when I try to educate people about it these days. Everyone just seems to mostly not care.
loobkoob@kbin.social 6 months ago
I installed uBlock for someone recently. They complained about all the empty space where the ads used to be. So I removed the empty space by blocking that element with uBlock, which increased the width of the main body of the website, and they then complained that the website was too wide...
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 months ago
You’re way too patient. “Nothing I can do about it” would have been my answer to the first complaint.