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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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Your first error was going to a website (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 18 hours ago by crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I remember back in the day we had a popup blocker. Now we are bombarded by popups, but inside the website instead of new windows. The most annoying part is the times delay on them. When the page is loaded, you want to click on a link, but a fraction of a second before you click a promotion pops up and you click on that. Or the Google ads when searching. Click result.... Oh no, the ads loaded in, I clicked on an ad instead. Fuck you.

The amount of effort you need to put in to get the info you want. So annoying! They try so hard to keep you on their website as well. When I want to know a shortcut in excel:

search for the shortcut
missclick an ad
try again
find page with info
close cookies
close promotion
need to login for info, go back to Google and try again
close cookies
close promotion
start reading...
info about what excel is used for
history of excel
story about the many shortcuts excel has
close popup for newsletter
story about different key on keaybord for windows and Apple
story about why you would need this action you're searching for
buildup to explanation what the actual shortcut is
close promotion
close another newsletter pupup
finally the shortcut you're searching for. FFS

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think most of this could be avoided if you used ublock origin

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

PSA. It's disabled on Chrome now. Switch to Firefox (still looking for a better alternative myself with recent FF news though.)

It's something I've been putting off. But chrome is unusable now. So many ads. I'm sure there is a workaround but just like leaving reddit it's a good time for me to find a chrome alternative.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 27 minutes ago

Just download LibreWolf and give it a try, takes like 20sec

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 5 hours ago

I remember back in the day we had a popup blocker

Wait what happened to pop up blockers in your mind?