From memory where I was in Brunswick East each weekday leading up to the weekend topped out at 46.5C at 6:30pm. I kept wondering when the evacuations would be ordered but they never came. Mum worked for a funeral home in Sydney. She turned up a week or two later with a truck full of coffins. I guess Victoria didn't have enough on hand.
Assuming I understand how SponsorBlock works, I don't mind the sponsor reads from the handful of channels I follow. If I had kids or had to setup access for kids or perhaps other groups of people who are easily influenced by advertising then I'd consider going the extra step. I imagine the sponsors on other channels are more obnoxious and exploitative. As it is all I hear are shoutouts for Nebula, GroundNews, Patreon etc.
I know I'm being advertised to everywhere still but the small amount I'm able to block by not watching commercial free-to-air and having ublock-origin installed everywhere along with using newpipe already seems to make a huge difference.
Sorry for the late reply, there's a bit of federation lag between aussie.zone and lemmy.world when it comes to comments and votes. It's getting better, only two days lag now, it used to be seven days!
I don't think there is necessarily an upside for the people who fall for this stuff hook, line and sinker. But there does seem to be an upside for the grifters selling all kinds of sovereign citizen passports, IDs, licences, certificates among other things online.
I meant I missed the analysis published on The Conversation that I linked. I heard about the shutting down of the musical and saw the news about Gunn's latest insta post. Her response seems kinda 'How do you do, fellow kids' and at first I thought it was hilarious in a 'gift that keeps on giving' kind of way but then I realised it's just sad.
However, as we approach 2025, with growing concerns about online privacy and data protection, Mozilla believes that DNT is no longer an effective privacy measure. Many websites ignore the DNT signal. Therefore, Mozilla has removed the DNT signal from Firefox version 135.
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Mozilla believes that privacy preference is not honored by websites and that sending the Do Not Track signal may impact your privacy. The company has updated Firefox’s Do Not Track help support page to confirm that.
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The company recommends using the Global Privacy Control setting as an alternative to prevent websites from tracking user data.
The irony is most folks will read and share this on their phone.
Edit: Some of the links and references look interesting and I hadn't clocked The Guardian had a bookshop.