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I will 100% quit using electrically powered screen-besring devices if this becomes a thing. I’ll cold turkey electronic tech instantly, fuck that noise.
I tried to cold turkey technology. I went near insane.
It takes prep, and also, you’re probably not going to truly “cold turkey.” I like music, for instance, and there’s literally only two ways to get music now - streaming or 🏴☠️, so you would have to make plans for that. I’m ok with 🏴☠️ so I’d be set with that for a good while. I also like books, retro games (which I already have a large library of), and physical hobbies that don’t require internet - hiking, etc.
I will not just lay down and accept intrusive Idiocracy levels of ads though. I will literally “cave man” the rest of life if necessary.
There’s more than two ways to get music. I’m looking at a stack of CDs and records right now.
Do modern bands still print CDs? I haven’t bought a CD in so long that I dont think I even own one anymore. I have bought directly from several bands “bandcamp”/other pages and that was cool. Got mp3, FLAC, artworks, lyrics, etc for less than the price of a CD except every penny went to the band.
I love modern tech and don’t want to see it destroyed but I will gladly go insane like a mountain man if they try to find out how many ads they can serve before it causes siezures.
Oh actually you know what you’re probably right 😬 I know modern bands do records still, but I think the last CD I bought was Tranquility Base in like 2016. Bandcamp is great!
I’m totally on board with you. I hate ads, especially when they interrupt music – and double especially when they interrupt music and the ad has its own music that completely shits up the mood!
Yea same. And I’m a Systems Admin lol
I believe it’s called Copilot
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God bless NoScript.
People are forgetting that Microsoft has now added ai accelerators as part of the windows requirements and the new Google Pixel phones also have AI hardware. Eventually someone will make it so all chromium browsers will have access to the hardware in JavaScript.
…,And Cloudflare will request using it for 5 seconds every time you visit a website hosted with them. I wonder how much crypto they’ve accumulated this way already.
this is total nonsense
Yeah, it wouldn’t be gigabytes of JS, it’d be gigabytes of WASM
WASM ftw tho
This is total AdSense
Ofc, it’s moneysense.
It doesn’t make cents, it makes dollars
I think this is sarcasm with a hint of truth to it
Right, if I visit many web pages today without an ad blocker, the vast majority of my HTTP requests are for ads and tracking, which is sort of the crux of the joke
You can likely rest very well assured that when BigCorp overlords saw the dystopian shit in movies like Demolition Man, RoboCop, Idiocracy, etc., their eyes lit up with a horrid glow and they told each other, “This is brilliant! We absolutely must make this happen!”
Reminds me of Futurama, “we all have commercials in our dreams” scene.
Leela: Didn’t you have ad’s in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
Quit squaking, flesh wad. Nobody’s forcing you to buy anything.
I don’t want to be forced to watch ads either, ass wad.
this is a mastodon post, part of the same “network” as lemmy instances. Should it not be possible to have this kind of post as an actual post instad of a screenshot?
Yes but the UX of accessing mastodon content on lemmy isn’t great.
I am not browsing anything which has ads anyways, I don’t even watch tv anymore
Edit to clarify what I mean by “tv”, I mean anything including streaming services. I just watch movies, and I am thinking of just using a projector and a wall. Not sure why I even have a physical tv anymore
Who else is excited for Rootkit “anticheat/DRM” requirements for web browsers? We all already give games full system access, so why not do the same for cookies?
Another thing that’ll have me just quitting tech altogether. If you need to advertise your product so hard as to ruin something of mine at all times so I’ll HAVE to look at your shit, I’ll spend extra money to never use your shit again. I’ll get rid of everything but one laptop or phone which will do all of my banking and literally nothing else.
Well yeah, NOW IT IS, now that you put the idea out there! Thanks!
I’ll have you know that this is famous sci-fi author Charles David George Stross posting an excerpt from his seminal novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus. The warning is right in the title, I’m sure nobody will be dumb enough to ignore it!
🤞🤞
Yeah this is why I’ve made it a goal to read more often
Well I’d recommend giving Charlie Stross’s books a read.
Personally I’ve only read Rule 34 which was a good book.
