• tomiant@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    a LOT of people have no idea how any of that works. And I don’t shit on them, I help them. Sometimes I install uBlock on people’s computers without telling them because if I told them then whenever their printer stops working it would be my fault, but they often get surprised after a while like, huh I don’t get ads anymore that’s weird and great…

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      1 hour ago

      Last person I helped install Firefox+uBlock on their phone went back to the YouTube apps in no time, as far as I understand they just liked the app better. Evidently a lot of people don’t mind ads that much, which is ludicrous to me.

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      3 days ago

      If they knew it would probably stop working, as then Google would be motivated enough to break it 😅