In your android settings, go to network & internet > advanced > private DNS and paste the link dns.adguard-dns.com into the box. All ads will assume you have no Internet connection. Doesn’t appear to work on YouTube, but covers anything from the Google Play store banners/videos/etc.

Wait, THAT was the issue? (I thought it was another program that got sold, and the new owner bundled it with malware or something.) Is there something wrong with MuseGroup? I’ve been using MuseScore for ages.

When I was in middle school, a girl did in fact get a bug bite on her eyeball. It was blood red for a week and she couldn’t see well, but long term she was fine.

😂 leave that shirt as it is. Use it to decorate your house, and as a reminder of your hubris.

Last I checked, most of my content on r/all was r/aita and clone subs, r/weddingdress, and r/doordash, over and over and over. A lot of the subs that used to be on all never recovered from the blackout. My personal feed pretty much died because subs that would get 20+ posts a day went down to 1-2 a week.

I had an email go to spam in the middle of a discussion with my insurance company. Even though I had already had 5 exchanges with them.

So every time I get the “couldn’t load image, bad state” error, that’s a video? I thought that was an issue in the server side. @zach@bigfoot.ninja

This is brilliant. Instead of advertisers making sponsored posts that are ignored or trying to sneak an ad into a community, they can outright buy engagement. Utilize subliminal advertising, then advertisers buy their own “tips” (or whatever they end up being called) and they get back a portion of the money spent. There’s been an uptick in those types of posts lately and reddit’s just leaning into market trends. Not to mention that bots can earn real money by reposting top/all time content!

Personally, I’m a big fan of emojis in usernames 😊

That’s totally fine 😊 In my group, there’s a small handful who are really into games and buy everything. They pick up lots of games from Etsy and Kickstarter that no one’s heard of before and teach us how to play. Last week it was Wizard Kittens which took maybe 5 minutes to learn.

The most important thing though when trying to make friends is accepting failure. Instead of automatically dismissing it, just try it out and see whether or not it’s worth your time. Even if you find out it’s not for you, there may be someone there who can direct you towards a different hobby.

I also can’t find women’s fashion here. I used to have a multiredit of sewing, fashion porn, fashion history, and old hag fashion. I miss my ready to wear fix!

Small gatherings! I joined a gaming group on meetup that averages 3-8 people a week. It’s not required that you go every week, so there’s usually a unique mix of people. Board game groups seem to be the millennial version of going to the bar every Friday.

Absolutely. I was a big part of the non professional music production side of YouTube a decade ago. Imagine getting 100+ new songs every week, from talented artists putting everything they had into their work. It was incredible! This year I got into data hoarding and looked into downloading my old favorite songs… Turns out most of them deleted their old work from YouTube when they went pro or simply closed out their channel for personal reasons. Not even the compilation channels were still around. Hundreds of thousands of songs are just gone, along with the records of that community’s culture.

I’ve been using the internet since the 90s. Originally I was very pro ad, since it meant that we wouldn’t end up with paying subscriptions for every site on top of internet utility bills. But around 2010 or so I got malware from an ad I didn’t even click on - all it had to do was load on the page. The site issued an open apology but it’s not like they were going to pay repair costs for everyone’s computers. After that I knew neither websites nor ad suppliers were vetting what they display to users. Companies only get more complacent as time goes on, and once the option was out there bad actors would only get more creative. I’ve used ad blockers ever since.

I mean, Tesla was dealing with a lot of accounting and labor concerns before Twitter. Not to mention stock manipulation and other illegal stuff.

300? The tracking site is still showing 5k.