Your first error was going to a website
Your first error was going to a website
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I remember back in the day we had a popup blocker. Now we are bombarded by popups, but inside the website instead of new windows. The most annoying part is the times delay on them. When the page is loaded, you want to click on a link, but a fraction of a second before you click a promotion pops up and you click on that. Or the Google ads when searching. Click result.... Oh no, the ads loaded in, I clicked on an ad instead. Fuck you.
The amount of effort you need to put in to get the info you want. So annoying! They try so hard to keep you on their website as well. When I want to know a shortcut in excel:
- search for the shortcut
- missclick an ad
- try again
- find page with info
- close cookies
- close promotion
- need to login for info, go back to Google and try again
- close cookies
- close promotion
- start reading...
- info about what excel is used for
- history of excel
- story about the many shortcuts excel has
- close popup for newsletter
- story about different key on keaybord for windows and Apple
- story about why you would need this action you're searching for
- buildup to explanation what the actual shortcut is
- close promotion
- close another newsletter pupup
- finally the shortcut you're searching for. FFS
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Oh I know, I'll skip all of this trouble and just ask AI instead!
- The AI hallucinates and gives you a shortcut that doesn't actually exist
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I think most of this could be avoided if you used ublock origin
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PSA. It's disabled on Chrome now. Switch to Firefox (still looking for a better alternative myself with recent FF news though.)
It's something I've been putting off. But chrome is unusable now. So many ads. I'm sure there is a workaround but just like leaving reddit it's a good time for me to find a chrome alternative.
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Just download LibreWolf and give it a try, takes like 20sec
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I have a Pi Hole, Proton vpn with ad blocking and Vivaldi browser with ad blocking built in, but that's not enough apparently
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I remember back in the day we had a popup blocker
Wait what happened to pop up blockers in your mind?
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Those were for new windows popping up. Not built-in newsletter or promotion popups AFAIK.
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