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in b4 95% of all websites in june 2024 announce that "for security" they will only work with browsers that use manifest v3

470nanometers

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.

Ars Technica

Just use Firefox.

evilsoup

The more people who use Firefox the better! It's got versions for the desktop, android, and iphone, all free. In addition to ublock origin there are thousands of addons. You could also consider using one of Mozilla's paid products, such as their VPN, or donating to the Mozilla Foundation, in order to ensure they're able to keep going.

Internet for people, not profit

Mozilla is the not-for-profit behind the lightning fast Firefox browser. We put people over profit to give everyone more power online.

Mozilla

Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla is a global nonprofit dedicated to keeping the Internet a global public resource that is open and accessible to all.

Mozilla Foundation

pikestaff

Not to be Old on main but I remember this exact thing happening in the late 90s and early 00s. I remember it very well. Microsoft pushed out all the browser competition with Internet Explorer, at which point both browser and web innovation stagnated for years because why fix something that's broken if everyone is using the broken thing anyway because there are hardly any other options. If you want to know how bad it was, Internet Explorer did not have browser tabs and it certainly did not have any sort of adblock. And everyone just lived with it.

I am watching the exact same thing happen with Chrome in real time today and that's why I always reblog these posts and sometimes am extra annoying and add on to them. I don't want to see it happen again because it sucked. Please use Firefox. Use it on mobile too (it has browser extensions!!! Including ad blockers!!!) And reminder that Edge/Brave/Vivaldi are all built on Chromium and you should not be using those either. Those browsers will show up as Chrome on tracking analytics and it does not help the overall project, which is showing web developers that Chrome is not the only browser people are using.

anotherdayforchaosfay

Your passwords and other useful things transfer to Firefox, btw. Go make the switch. You have nothing to lose.

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melonsap

If you fall for a social media prank, do you reblog/pass it on to your followers?

violetthunderstorm

This is funnier on mobile. It's like hot gluing a coin to the sidewalk but the glue pools out under it making it obvious at a glance that it is a prank.

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gemthegerm

calvin and hobbes is my favorite comic strip ever

moonlightredfern

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Reposting my art on this blog so here is my sidewalk chalk mermaid from 2021:

chalk drawing of a mermaid holding two high heels. various sea creatures have gathered around her

She’s found some glass slippers and she is confused, which honestly is fair because shoes have no business being glass.

detail shot. the mermaid is a Black girl with natural hair, shell earrings, and starfish hairpins stuck into her fro. she is wearing a pink ruffle tank top

another detail shot showing the mermaid, coral, octopus, turtle, and a school of fish

I tried to make her look like a little kid and I think I got the head/body proportions almost correct but I messed up the cheekbones and she looks older.

secretkoalasandwich

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Tumbleweed needs everyone to know that I am his most cruel and heartless mother for decreasing the amount of food he gets due to him gaining a third again his body weight over the last year no that is not all fur Tumbleweed you are shaped like a pregnant sheep!

He has spent much of the day stomping from room to room while yelling his immense displeasure.

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Yelling

Begging

Lamentations

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dedmau

yeah i work in graphic design *building gradients in minecraft*

dedmau

here they are btw

volzaannir

elderscrollsconfessions

Confession: On rare occasions when I use the Wabbajack, Skyrim will just completely crash altogether for some reason. Although, making ''crash the entire game'' one of the effects does seem like something that Sheogorath absolutely would do, so I'm really not that pressed about it.

moonlightredfern

astriiformes

The Fellowship gets on the topic of their ages one night and Boromir comes to the dawning realization that he has absolutely no idea how old any of his companions are supposed to be at all

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Boromir, pointing at the hobbits: I don’t know how your ages work

Boromir, pointing at Legolas and Gimli: I definitely don’t know how either of your ages work

Boromir, pointing at Aragorn: I thought I knew how your age worked but apparently I was wrong

Boromir, pointing at Gandalf: I especially don’t know how your age works

Gandalf: It doesn’t, but carry on

elidyce

Listen I will die on this hill. I don’t care what it says in the assorted apocrypha, if you go by the Actual Text of LOTR you can make a very good argument that Boromir is the youngest member of the group.

The hobbits are the only ones given official ages in the text, and are between fifty or fifty-one and twenty-nine. Elves and dwarves notoriously age slowly, and Gimli is the offspring of one of Bilbo’s pals, so okay, we’ve established that he’s old enough to call the hobbits young, and Bilbo confirms for them that Aragorn is Pretty Old For A Bigjobs. Gandalf is, of course, eternal.

But we are never given any context for Boromir and Faramir’s ages, except that a) they are humans and, though Sons of Gondor, not much longer lived than most Bigjobs, and b) Faramir is A QuiteYoung Man. I was absolutely convinced, when I read the books as a youngun, that Boromir, being in ‘the flower of manhood’ iirc, was probably between 25 and 30.

And it would be Freaking Hilarious, okay, for Boromir to finally get around to actually asking how old this baby-faced hobbit carrying The Ring is, and get told ‘oh, he’s only fifty, but he’s very steady for his age.’

Boromir: ?!?!?!

And then Pippin and Merry start asking everyone how old they are because this is fascinating are we all official adults here except for Pippin or what.

Boromir: …. Pippin isn’t an adult HOW OLD IS PIPPIN.

Pippin is just 29, which is why everyone calls him Pippin, it’s gonna be at least another 20 years before he can make Peregrine work. Why, how old is Boromir?

Boromir, who would rather DIE than admit to being 28 right at this moment: …. 43.

All the others, weighing up his apparent age compared to theirs: Sure, sounds legit.

Gandalf, who knows for certain, does not say anything because he is absolutely certain that telling Pippin that he’s older than Boromir will be an unmitigated disaster.

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LOTR Heritage Post

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tiredfoxtf

kkshowtunes

google siting ao3 as a source is so unhinged

strawberrygirldick

Google is quickly approaching a fucking unusable state

crazy-pages

So I started using duckduckgo a little over a year ago. At my research job I was advised to be careful about what I googled (versus looking up in reference documents), because Google is data mining all of us and the company is concerned that Google might sell data on what we are searching about to competitors. Which is its own level of creepy cyber dystopian hell.

Anyway I figured I'd just bypass that entire problem by using a search engine which didn't datamine me, a thing which apparently never occurred to our data security team because Google has sunk its claws into every aspect of our lives. And at first it felt a little bit clunky because it has different searching priorities than Google and I found myself having to relearn subtleties of search term optimization and how to parse results which I never realized were unique to Google in the first place. Meanwhile at home I was using Google and duckduckgo in unequal proportions because I hadn't really committed to making the switch you know?

And this means I got to be the frog with one foot in the slowly boiling water and one foot in a nice bath of room temperature water for reference as Google rotted from the inside. I don't know how long this process has been going on and how much I missed. But from 2022 to 2023, Google has gone to hell. It is almost unusable compared to what it was a year ago.

Nonsense pay to play search engine results now consume more than half of the first page, which we all know, but the stuff below that has gotten less and less useful too. It's gone from duckduckgo being a slightly less powerful search engine (with a bit of a learning curve that compounds the effect) to being objectively head and shoulders better than Google, and it's not because duckduckgo has gotten better! In just over a year!

I feel almost crazy because I don't think I would have noticed it if I hadn't had one foot in and one foot out of Google like I have, simply because of how often we all use Google and how slow that makes the enshittification process from search to search. But it's real! Google has gotten so much worse! It is eating itself alive!