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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[โ€“] neatchee@piefed.social 33 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

ok ok ok ok look I use DNS level ad blockers, I'm big in favor of them, but this is the dumbest shit ever.

Running client side JavaScript that detects when an advertisement failed to load and then popping a request to disable your ad blocker is in no way, shape, or form "spying".

Don't get me wrong, plenty of sites absolutely spy on you, and the ads themselves definitely spy on you.

But being able to detect that ads didn't load? It's completely client side and is not spying ๐Ÿ˜‚

That last line is just real bad logic.

[โ€“] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Even without JavaScript, back in my day doing some basic CSS stuff could effectively* do this too.

*Background showed if image doesn't. Not hard to work around but did something if ad didn't load.

There was better technique using CSS but I ran small band websites for basically free tickets so I wasn't chasing riches. Just hosting cost. Single small ad was enough.

[โ€“] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

Tip for who wants to do it nowdays: use an SVG please...

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