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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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[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 190 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (44 children)

Oh yeah, its so wild when you see it.

Like, I forgot Youtube even has ads.

And just to throw out therr, I get it, people need to make money, I am not against advertising, but fuck the ads are SOOOOO MANY and all come off as SOOOOOO scammy.

If you are showing me an ad online, I assume you and the product are just trying to rip me off and whatever is being promoted is a scam. If it was just "Hey, McDonalds has McRibs" in a little banner, ok fine, whatever. But its all this wild cheap garbage from weird fucking bull shit websites. What happened to actually having a sales person vet this shit?

[–] cb900f_bodhi@fedinsfw.app 73 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Same here. A buddy of mine was listening to YT Music on a speaker when an infomercial length ad started talking (uh, I mean, lying) about all the how and why the United States has the best healthcare system in the world and there's no good reason to change any of it.

My head almost exploded. What. The. Fuck.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 30 points 3 days ago

The ads on some podcasts, like anything NYT, are shockingly conservative lately.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

A lot of ads just seem like AI advertising made-up products that don't exist, gambling, or payday loans. Or sometimes totally normal things like a local college.

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[–] amio@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago

What happened to actually having a sales person vet this shit?

"Optimized" away as fast as possible, you can safely bet.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It all went to shit when advertisers realized that they don't actually have to sell anything. The ad is the product. That's why so much advertisement is a scam now. Regulation is so far behind the problems of the internet it is ridiculous. Some companies entire business model is to put out ads, then funnel the data straight to data brokers. The products aren't real, they just have to get prints, eyes and occasional curiosity or accidental clicks, and they make a margin over it. It is madness.

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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I once caught a reddit ban for sharing NSFW content even though the youtube video had none. I had to ask why and it turned out there was porn in the ads and apparently that was my fault.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow, that's... kind of impressively sophisticated for the system to pick up on that.

But wait, aren't the ads account-tailored?

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sure, If male = true, show porn ad.

[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 85 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Wait, does the average person not use an ad blocker? Like am I within the 40%? 30%? i have really no idea

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 99 points 3 days ago (2 children)

From a quick search it seems like it's under 30%. Crazy.

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Crazy how many people are raw-dogging digital sewage.

[–] LemmyPlaceDN@europe.pub 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

More like getting raw-dogged by it...

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Crazy, but understandable when you realize how many people use iPhone mobile apps for 100% of their web browsing

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[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago (17 children)

My dad browsing on his tablet, shows me a page. “Ahhhh, my eyes! You need an ad blocker!”

“Ok give me one”

“You’d have to use firefox”

“Never mind then, I want chrome”

Then continue drowning in ads and tracking, chucklefuck.

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[–] late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net 27 points 3 days ago (6 children)

It's worse than average person. I don't even see tech-savy friends use adblockers nowadays. No idea why, I never asked.

And I feel like majority of people don't even know browser extensions exist, and those who do think it's all shady and malware, so they avoid those like plague.

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[–] ReHomed@lemmy.cafe 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm surprised people are capable of tolerating the shit it's fucking awful

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (6 children)

For decades, if I happen to hear ads playing on radio or something, i literally stick my fingers in my ears and go LALALALA until it stops or I have left.

You're not selling me SHIT today, I will never be part of your brainwashing scheme.

I am willing to die on that hill so help me god.

[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

I think the ads on TV can be an important cultural touchstone.

I feel like it’s turning into a genuine schism in our society. The “it’s fine, I just deal with it”s and the “I swear to fucking god I’ll burn it all down before I see/hear a single goddamn ad”s.

The Time Machine needs to be remade with this in mind.

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 46 points 3 days ago

This is what its like when I turn on the TV at someones house or at a hotel or something. I encounter TV ads so rarely (only commercial free streaming / downloaded content in our house) that its fucking jarring as hell to be watching something and then suddenly there are commercials.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I set up firefox and ublock for my inlaws, but they only use edge.

They like to read some rag newspaper website and the difference is STAGGERING, the ads it has everywhere, I can't describe it. They always use edge, on purpose. Deliberately.

[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Change to Mullvad or Adguard DNS. It's not perfect, but doesn't require manifest V2 so it works well even on edge.

That said it's even harder to fix issues caused by DNS-level adblocking than an extension so consider at your own risk.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Using a phone with no ad block is astonishing. You get taken to sites where ads, cookie consent forms, and other junk all compete to the point that there's no site left to look at. It's the days of pop up windows all over again.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Firefox for phones supports adblock btw.

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[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I have this conversation with my wife. I installed a pi-hole on our network, works nearly perfectly, however every site thinks we have ad-blockers installed, and kind of we do I guess.

She got mad because all the sites she wants to read (she love celebrity drama) won't let her read any more, so she just uses cellular data instead of the home wi-fi. I don't know how she reads anything with all the ads everywhere.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 days ago (3 children)

One day I installed AdGuard on a Pi and routed my parent's traffic through it, effectively blocking ads. I thought they would love to live without ads but she asked me to remove it because the games she plays won't progress unless she watches ads.

[–] _spiffy@piefed.ca 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have a pi hole and my wife likes the Google shopping links that it blocks and my sister in law likes to play games with ads. I ended up just making a bypass list and putting their devices on them.

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Every time I help a family member with tech support, I make sure to install ubo as an extra , even if it's unrelated to the problem. I've also started adding the bookmarklet kill sticky. Less clutter and ads means less attack vectors, which means less work for me.

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[–] rounding_error@lemmy.today 20 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I imagine that if you walk around barefoot enough then the random weeds stop consciously bothering you

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But what about the broken glass, lego bricks, jellyfish, brightly colored posionous creatures, and literal feces?

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[–] lohky@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is me and my wife. She showed me a video on her phone the other day and it started with two ads. I didn't really comprehend that they were ads and asked her why I was watching some weird Dominos meme. 🤷

[–] Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

good spouses don't let their SO suffer ADs

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Same experience when I try to watch TV with commercials after 20 years of cable. Can't even get through a sitcom. Hard to believe I grew up with that shit drilling into my brain every 5 minutes.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago (5 children)

When I have to go off my network because some website won't load because I am blocking their trackers I get sick from the AI ads, its gross. Truth in advertising is dead so so dead. They are not even trying to make products look real anymore.

I won't allow list the things the site needs, I would rather just go on mobile for a min. I wish I could set DNS settings per browser so I could spin up a lighter adblock that will allow the sites I have to rarely access and then just have a dedicated browser for.

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[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 25 points 3 days ago

I had this experience at work last year. I shared some article that was relevant to work and half the people complained that it had a full page ad they couldn’t dismiss. The other half of us used Adblock, apparently.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago

And then they blame the IT department for their slow computer, or request a new one. Or put one in the fridge to cool it off—I'm not kidding.

I love humans in their creative endeavours, but once they start taking life/work too seriously, or the opposite, have no moral backbone, then god I hate their dung-brained behaviour.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I use a VPN so places where I can't block ads, like podcasts on my phone, at least I only get nonsensical swedish-language ads.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

I literally had this thought yesterday. I'm so glad I know how to use technology. I have no idea how folks raw dog the internet today.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I install uBlock origin for them when they aren't looking.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I install it when they are, and explain why, and how to temporarily turn it off if it breaks a website. Spreading the idea plus uBlock Origin is way more impactful than just uBlock Origin.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Don't. When their computer breaks it'll be your fault and they will never stop calling you.

Just do good in the shadows. That's my motto.

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