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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 152 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Stop. Install your favorite ad blocker, like ublock origin. Refresh.

Work smarter not harder

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 26 points 11 months ago

About 2 years ago I spent most of a Christmas sorting out my MIL's new laptop, uninstalling junk and whatnot, and I tossed ublock origin on there. A few days ago I came back to sort out the Realtek audio drivers which uninstalled themselves via Windows Update. I find she has an entirely different laptop now, branded as"Acemagic" but through the magic of forced Microsoft Sign-in ublock origin synced to Edge on this new laptop, and there was no crapware installed despite the laptop clearly being in use for about 6 months already!

TL;DR install ublock origin on your parents computers to save yourself some trouble down the line

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Even with uBlock Origin, some pirate sites still have this problem because the ads either are not typical ad elements or are not in the block list. Very common with sites that host pirated android apps, in my experience.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes but it does solves the pop up issue completly.

[–] sdcSpade@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago

Now that you say it, I haven't seen a popup in years. They feel like a distant nightmare now.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 11 points 11 months ago

If you didn't give your parents computer, digital syphilis are you really a millennial?

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

Install Radarr and avoid torrent websites completely.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Why was it ever disabled to start with?

Every time a dodgy site has asked me to disable it, it still doesn't work, and now you have a bunch of tracking cookies and has to look at ads for other porn sites.