Remember When pay Cable Television Was Supposed To Be Commercial-Free?

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[–]Drewski 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Browsing the internet is a lot more tolerable with an adblocker.

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I remember when it was considered one of the top security issues of going online to hole malicious domains that served malware/ads. It's surprising how many people can't apply the most simple fix, or simply don't care. Now the normies are like grandma with the 20 toolbars on her browser.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What really blows my mind is how many people want an "app" for literal webpages that you can just open in a browser tab. As if all the huge scandal of app backdoor data gathering and resale wasn't happening.

They'd rather get backdoored than have to open Safari... I truly don't get it

[–]RedditButt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They've been successfully manipulated by these companies who encourage such behavior by making an incomplete or broken webpage, but make it work better with a piece of software to install.

Any reasonable person from before the mobile phone generation would see right through it, but devs have learned that the stigma of installing malware can be washed away so long as they design it such that it doesn't render someone's computer (or mobile device) unusable. Since our processing power has grown, this has been much easier to accomplish. Want to compile keyloggers, trackers, adware with the software these days? No problem, the end user won't even notice the lag.