I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable

  • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
    1792·
    2 年前

    My retired parents live with me. I went ahead and put a PiHole on our home wifi. A day later my mother was literally complaining that she couldn’t click on ads on facebook. I told her those are ads and they track her and she says “well everyone likes to use the internet how they like to use it… can you put it back the old way? I want to look at these shoes”. Can’t fucking win.

    • jarredpickles87@lemmy.world
      1302·
      2 年前

      My wife turns off the WiFi on her phone to avoid the pihole. She does this so she can watch the ads in her games to get an extra life or whatever. You’ll never win on that front and I won’t either.

    • flameguy21@lemm.eeEnglish
      33·
      2 年前

      People actually CLICK on ads??? Genuinely never had even an iota of desire to do that. I forgot it was even an option.

      • neanderthal@lemmy.world
        122·
        2 年前

        I do when it is advertising something I hate. Publishers get dollars for clicks, pennies for impressions. That way I force someone I dislike to give money to someone I like.

    • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      2 年前

      I got a lot of complaints from family, too. Especially because I block Meta. I just let them bitch and I tell them things like “those ads are broken because of malware” which isn’t entirely untrue.

    • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      14·
      2 年前

      but this means that she would see the ads but not being able to click? I don’t get it. They should had just disappeared, no? Or was she complaining that she wasn’t seeing the ads?

      • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
        12·
        2 年前

        The ads still appear in the facebook feed but clicking them results in a “this site could not be found” or similar error, is how I understood it to work. I know the PiHole basically makes it so the routes from “whateveradwebsite.com” end up not resolving to an IP address. I’m not sure how FB is serving them; so the text/image content might be coming from an FB server and the link is just an ad URL with a bunch of tracking info on it.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 年前

      I know it’s rare, but there have been times I intentionally clicked on an ad - if it genuinely seemed like a unique or useful product I had some interest in.

      I imagine the fake-social-post type of ads are worth blocking though since it’s based in dishonesty and deception.

      • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        2 年前

        Some shops I only used once still send me their written newsletters and I don’t mind checking them if they do them entertaining, or about some niche products, even if I don’t consider buying them at all. I miss well-designed full-page print ads in magazines, or just those with a catchy imagery\wording. Now these all feel like a vintage, premium product, akin to vinyl records, if compared to what garbage web serves today. Such a weird thing to be nostalgic about, but I hope oldschool advertisers\smm persons feel it on their end too.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
      71·
      2 年前

      “I’ll try to fix it. Now that I put it in taking it down brings the Internet down. Sorry, let me think how to fix this”

      And literally put up excuses until they get used to it. I’m sorry but they made you do stuff you didn’t enjoy for your own good while telling white lies, it’s time for payback.

    • Orionza@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 年前

      Hi, butting in here, hope you don’t mind a question - is there a place to go with basic I instructions on how I can set this up too? Thanks!

      • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 年前

        Yeah for sure. I’m no expert by any means, but I can talk through what I did.

        I used the instructions directly from their code repository: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/#one-step-automated-install (I used option 1, the automated install). I did this on an old RPi2B that I had laying around.

        After I set up the pi, I got its MAC address. I used this to set a static IP address in my router settings. This is important to make sure the pi keeps the same IP at all times. Then, also in my router settings, I set the DNS server to be the pi’s static IP address.

        After all that was done, I just plugged the pi into a dedicated power supply and rebooted the router.

  • Rolando@lemmy.world
    54·
    2 年前

    As I recall, back in the late 90s there was a story in the Wall Street Journal about a man who loved receiving email spam. After a long day’s work he would go home and relax by looking through his email spam and order things.

    Some people are just like that.

    • semperpeppe@feddit.it
      2·
      2 年前

      Tbh, I can relate to some degree. Sometimes I really love watching TV commercials. My favorite is teleshopping

      • Rolando@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 年前

        Yeah, when I watch sports events from other countries it’s interesting to see the commercials, even if I don’t speak the language. It’s when I have to watch 20 minutes of the same commercials every hour that it gets bad.

  • AutomaticJack@beehaw.org
    33·
    2 年前

    I once had a user whose PC would freeze every time they tried to see their desktop. Like, you minimise something full screen and the PC would freeze for a few minutes and crawl while the desktop was in view.

    Turns out they had more than 4,000 items on their desktop.

    That day I learned where Windows puts icons that don’t fit on the desktop (it stacks them all on the first icon’s place, lol). And this wasn’t even the problem they called about! They were just grumpily blaming Microsoft and working around it for years.

    I guess my point is computer illiterate/belligerent people will find a way around the problems they cause and just blame something/someone else.

  • netburnr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 年前

    I have it on good authority, if you type Google into Google, you can break the internet.

    • coffeesnob@lemmy.world
      19·
      2 年前

      Wait a minute, the “Elders of the Internet”!? The Elders of the Internet know who I am!? You’ve got to let me have it!

      • macniel@feddit.de
        11·
        2 年前

        no no. The Elders of the Internet would never stand for that! The Internet needs to get straight back to Big Ben.

    • flerp@lemm.ee
      9·
      2 年前

      Ah this brings back the memories of the race to close pop-ups as you can hear your parents coming home. For every one you close, three pop up to take it’s place. You can hear the key in the lock. Sweat pouring down your face you finally do it, you hit the last X and nothing new pops up. You have defeated the pop-ups… this time.

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 年前

      Yes, typical screens from these years, from a user who, as a newbie in the Internet, clicked on these beautiful banners and animations that were on certain pages with nice freeware stuff, screensavers, games, funny Powerpoints, etc… Nowadays these things do not appear and you can only notice that the PC goes every time slower and you know that you belong to the big family of the botnet community.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    191·
    2 年前

    Literally the Windows Desktops+Applauncher / Mac Desktop+Panel of people making waaay more Money that I am.

    Like Mac really, who thought just piling up apps in an always shown panel is a good idea?

  • Radioactive Radio@lemm.ee
    15·
    2 年前

    My former co-worker was daily driving his browser without any extensions and didn’t see anything wrong with it. I was watching him work one day and he was literally fighting a battle against the unholy pop-ups just tryna download some free fonts. What could’ve been done in 2 clicks took him minutes to do trying to close all the ads and tabs kept opening, videos kept playing. It was painful just to watch.

  • lorez@lemm.ee
    14·
    2 年前

    I’m noticing some sites have become pretty unusable on mobile and I dunno what to do.

  • guy@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 年前

    I don’t have adblock on my work computer. I don’t want it interfering with webdev and I’ve found it to do so in the past. But it’s interesting, the dichotomy between sites I use as development resources vs the rest of the web. My phone and home computer are unbearable without adblock, but on my work computer, the ads are hardly noticeable really.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.ml
      12·
      2 年前

      Its ultimately based on the sites you frequent at work vs home. The sites i read stuff at work tend to be less in your face with ads,.so you know its there but theyre less distracting.

      • averagedrunk@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 年前

        A few well placed and tasteful ads are fine. And sites you tend to read at work show it can be done.

      • BossDj@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 年前

        I imagine developers are more likely to use ad block than majority population, so the related sites might have to be more tactical

    • xenoclast@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 年前

      So far. If YouTube wins the adblock fight it’s running. It means the end of adblockers.

      Because once they do it. Everyone will. We won’t be able “just go somewhere else”

      • BugFinder@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 年前

        In a world where people would spin up new websites just to piss off a billionaire, I have faith in humanity to build taller ladders for any walls the greedy corporations build.