dandelion

joined 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

this makes me feel something, like a weird nausea

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

nope, but it is weird!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

are men OK?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

honestly number of bites in a sandwich sounds like a volume measurement, so cubic centimeters or litres would be metric units used for this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

yeah, I guess it's a bit of an unexpected part of the title, lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

OK, but that doesn't sound like the "first good thing" that came to your mind when reading the question. Just sounds like the first thing you thought.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's not that simple, unfortunately. Even if you were concerned about the impact of using an adblocker, the ads are not like billboards, merely visual distractions, but rather ads now include invasive tracking and surveillance, and other malicious code that can freeze or make a website unusable. Ads often create an accessibility nightmare for some users. They also tend to use up data, making the internet less accessible to those in third world countries where internet access is slow and large data are a bigger problem.

There have been some half-hearted attempts to create standards for advertisements, but the reality is that greed has always undermined attempts for the private sector to self-regulate on this issue, so short of some kind of legislative action to curb these problems, you are going to get people trying to protect themselves with adblockers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of scenes are just thinly veiled commercials - why are we spending so much time looking at the front of a brand-new car the characters are getting into? It's always awkward and takes away from the scene.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The question: "What is the first good thing that comes to mind when reading this question?".

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