• kalabaza [any]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    Wow this hurts, my whole family is like this and when I bring up the gospel of Firefox+uBlock they laugh at me 😭

    • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      i’ve had a coworker tell me that it’s only fair to watch the ads cos you’re getting something free. he was completely sincere about it.

      agony-shivering agony-4horsemen agony-acid agony-consuming agony-deep agony-immense agony-limitless agony-mescaline agony

    • ourtimewillcome [any]@hexbear.net
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      the key to propagnda is not coming off like an evangelizer (i fail at this frequently). just use moments when they are particularly frustrated with their situation to gently remind them that a solution exists.

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        I exaggerate, it was once or twice that I brought it up. Really they just don’t like switching browsers, which is understandable, but maybe they didn’t trust that it’s really easy to export bookmarks and passwords and all that from Chrome. Otherwise I’m always recommending NewPipe when people get YT ads on Android, which I found people are more receptive to since NP has so many good, exclusive features and people feel it doesn’t require any setup.

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            I had to install Lite just the other day after my chromebook finally did a forced shutdown (I haven’t turned it off for like a year) and Origin stopped working after restart. For my use case at least, there’s zero discernible difference between the two.

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          Revanced is good too, though they may find hard all the manager thing