Notices by Don Marti (dmarti@federate.social)

protip: if someone asks you to use an app that you won't use on principle, but you don't want to get into it, you can make up a security warning and say you're not allowed to install or open the app

(brought to you by desktop Linux users who had trouble opening MSFT Office documents in the 1990s)

the line about "sitting on a beach earning 20 percent" implies that Hans Gruber and his associates were planning to start a venture capital firm if all went well for them...right?

(standard VC arrangement is they keep 20 percent of the gains from the fund)

all right, fine, influencers on here, your engaging content drove a conversion...happy now?

@aral @SecurityWriter Good point. Some ad blockers are security tools, some (like ABP) offer a false sense of security with paid allow-listing, and some are adware, malware, or subscription scams.

The 2 tools I recommend are:

Privacy Badger is simpler but since it's purely focused on tracking it will let more annoyances through.

uBlock Origin does a lot more

I never recommend "an ad blocker" to users—the extensions that come up highest in Google are the ones that let the Google ads through

@ShittyKopper @aral the weird part is that Google is supposed to be sharing their in-browser ad projects with the Competition and Markets Authority in the UK -- but this one does not seem to be showing up there. Maybe it's being held until after the CMA commitments expire?