L3ft_F13ld! @ reseller_pledge609 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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When I stop needing Windows, that's gonna be one of the first distros I try. Haven't tried the atomic distros properly yet.

I've heard good things about Bazzite if that's an option for you.

Well, that's not surprising to see. Thanks for the clarification.

Would not be surprised at all. Just want people to know about that instead of still being mad about some bullshit someone spewed years ago.

This was apparently never an official statement. It was someone in an interview that misspoke.

A Firefox fork like IronFox with an aggressive adblocker setup like uBlock Origin in medium mode blocks paywalls and all kinds of annoying popups on most sites. Takes a bit of tweaking to not break some sites, but after that it's amazing.

I also got this a week or so ago.

What's the actual end-game plan here? Wouldn't some kind of scam work better on bigger, more populated social media like Facebook or Twitter?

I just can't imagine what the actual goal of this spammy bullshit is on the Fediverse specifically.

So, I'm using IronFox on Android with uBlock Origin on medium mode. Not an ad or other problem to be seen on that site. On Windows I use LibreWolf with the same uBlock setup.

These are aggressive setups that can break some sites, but after a while of tweaking it carefully you don't notice it's there anymore.

Sounds like a dream job if it wasn't Fox or similar.

I'd honestly rather Fox focus on this than their usual conservative mouthbreathing.

You see stuff like this a lot with Chinese videos. I recently saw an electric supercar type vehicle from them jump potholes automatically at high speed as if it was nothing. Just keeps driving with zero wobble or death after landing.

Individual people aren't going to make any difference unless they're carrying HDs full of training data around with them.

Yes, but most people don't know that. Any excuse to make another big player look bad.

Most countries would grab onto something like this for some free propaganda.

ETA: The US and China especially love sniping at each other like this.

Mull is unmaintained. IronFox is the current fork.

Much as I love bidets I doubt this guy owns or uses one.

(some) internet malware is ads, but not all ads are malware

That's backwards. (Most) ads are malware, but not all malware is ads.

The majority of ads are, at best, dangerous and, at worst, actively malicious. The ad networks don't care to review them because they make money either way.

Or even wipe his ass?

Not that one thing alone, obviously. But it's a big part of it.

We can call it a hypothesis if that helps.

Then you're the target audience for Bluesky and similar. Mastodon and other fediverse sites don't have that and that's what most of the people here prefer.

I forgot about Lemmy for a few days just because it's not so addictive and I like that. It's actually refreshing when you realise you've been gone for a few days without missing it.

The overwhelming majority of ads are malware. Which is why I block aggressively and refuse to budge on that.

It's Twitter 2.0. It's what the average person wants. It's popular because it has algorithms and all the other addictive things from corporate social media.

Mastodon and others don't have these things and are harder to get started with. Picking a server is weird and scary. After that, getting your home feed started is difficult if you don't know to just follow some hashtags.