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It's just occurred to me that that would be difficult to do on Lemmy, since not everyone's federated to the same instances.

I really think that's a separate issue, which needs to be discussed as a completely separated issue. I agree ads by their nature are manipulative, they serve the website and the advertiser not the user. I think that once ads are non user-tracking then we can have a discussion about advertising ethics and deceptive advertising (online ads have always been terrible even before they were privacy invading) but you can't have that discussion when it's mixed in with privacy issues. Only once you take away the privacy issues then we can have the conversation about ad-pollution versus website revenue.

I really wish people would stop calling them adblockers too, they're wide-spectrum content blockers, and they're not blocking ads, they're blocking malicious ad-networks which is necessary for user security. Given the prevalence of online spyware it should be a basic feature built in to all web browsers.

It just gives spyware-promoting sites the ability to say "but you're hurting our revenue" which is a completely separate issue.

Funnily enough I've also noticed that my comments on Lemmy.ml have only been getting 1 point in the last week. Probably because they're not interesting enough but since you mentioned it...

I find they're a pain to use and I only have one out of social pressure, and privacy or not I'm constantly confused on why they're so popular.

I just use a throwaway account and have the rule of not putting in any data that I don't want to be read - which is barely anything any way because I do all my computing on my Linux laptop. I figure if they're collecting location data and recording me then they're just associating it with "random guy x" because I've never given it anything else. I should look in to one of the de-Googled Android distributions but I have so little interest and energy in anything to do with it, if it could be made totally private I would still rarely use it.

Posting from a Beehaw account I think does have a psychological effect on me that causes me to naturally tone things down a bit. I think it's been good for me.

Only issue is I recently opened another account because theyre leaving lemmy eventually and currently my posts dont federate and all my subscriptions are pending.

Nothing's concrete yet. I have accounts on several instances for their various advantages, but Beehaw is what I've settled on as my main "default" for now. The Subscribe Pending is a bug, I don't think it affects your posts federating so they're separate issues if that's the case.

Beehaw is a quieter experience than most because it has narrower federation, but you do tend to get a better signal to noise ratio since you miss the spammier instances - I like it.

Beehaw also doesn't federate downvotes which I think is an improvement.

I don't think they would do it if they expected that would be the outcome, that's my scepticism. I think the more likely outcome is that it will turn in to Fediverse by Meta™ in people's minds.

Doesn't seem to work? I've not been able to search for and find that thread from any Mastodon instance I've tried.

I kind of feel the main issue on Reddit is people who just don't care and would happily post and upvote irrelevant crap anyway. I don't understand the mentality.

Oh right, I was stupid, I see it now.

I don't get it...

Saluton!

Has anyone actually explained why the tunnel will cause problems? Because in all the articles about this that seems to be assumed knowledge. Intuitively I would have thought putting the road in a tunnel would be better than having a main road going past it.

Logseq is great, a bit of a learning curve but worth it.

For power users, I recommend to use a plugin like NoScript though, to block Google/CookieLaw’s hidden JS spyware on the site (they’re on 2/3th of the web tho).

https://noscript.net

Beware, NoScript will break some sites, and will require you to manually enable/whitelist JS (JavaScript) sources for sites + CDNs to fix this again.

Can you not use uBlock Origin to block 3rd party scripts? Enable advanced mode and add * * 3p-script block to My Rules.

I ask because I want to keep the number of extensions to a minimum.

It's the best Chromium browser, but unfortunately still a Chromium browser. Pleased to see it in Flathub though.

Or could it be that it might bother them but they just keep quiet and put up with it, assume that it's part of owning a computer and feel powerless to change anything?