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So Google, not just Chrome, but Google itself, hates ad blockers.
I get it, ads make money for way less effort and customer involvement than subscriptions and paywalls.
The problem is, as cybersecurity professionals have said, ads are a security risk for every system they interact with. Even if you don't click any ads ever, they're still a security risk.
How are they a security risk? Because ads are allowed to run code to perform their tasks. This code is supplied by the ad provider, and if all it ever did was provide a link, a hovertext/description for the visually impaired, and maybe a non-gif animation, this would be a non-issue on all but the weakest internet connections.
They are not all like that, though.
Endless cases of ad providers, site providers, even your actual ISP (Internet Service Provider) have been proven to inject arbitrary code, capable of doing a great number of things, into ads, links, images, video, etc.
This code has had scripts to use your computer's processing power to help mine Bitcoin so long as it's on the page the code started on, it's been used to install malware (even by your ISP in one particularly bad case), it's been used to just install viruses or keyloggers or so many more things.
Hell, even the not-malicious code can just bog down your computer by being terribly written messes of badly functioning code, so something that should run with barely any impact instead takes up ridiculous amounts of processing power and capacity.
This is a problem, and it's largely solvable by simply blocking ads. There's no native way to prevent ads from running scripts or code without disabling all JavaScript on every page, which effectively kills most pages you go to since every drop-down menu, every page-altering section (like the Google images thing), most search bars, video playback, and so much more, all depend entirely on JavaScript.
Google wants to take away that necessary security of blocking problematic ads, rather than just make a way to disable the problematic aspects of ads.
I dislike ads, especially when they take up more than about 25% of the screen. I'd ideally like to see little to no ads ever, but I understand how ads support the sites they're on, support creators on streaming services, etc.
I'd be okay with classic banner ads, basic image/link ads, even the before/during/after video ads, if they weren't almost guaranteed to be literally hostile. If Google hates ad blockers so much, they should make them less of a safety requirement by letting us choose to disable ad scripts, or even just block that entire concept, because no ads for any worthwhile service or product have ever needed to run scripts. If an image or GIF of your product/service, maybe with a quick description, isn't selling your product/service, then making it hover over the page content, make noise, and mine Bitcoin will only piss your target audience off, while proudly claiming that you are the one doing it.
Would you buy a product that tricks you into interacting with it through just being annoying and pulling the sibling trick of "I'm not touching you, see? I'm touching your computer, not you?"
Hell, pop-up ads were basically scriptless and still managed to piss off most of the people who encountered them. The guy who invented them made a public apology for having developed that 'extremely intrusive' marketing method. Now ISPs have been caught injecting malware into links that you click on while using their service, with the express intent of installing them to your computer to monitor what you do and block access to sites they don't want you on.
You want the Internet to be safe? Don't fight porn or violence, that has never done anything but drive up interest. Fight the people actively making the Internet literally unsafe to use regardless of age or system.
I'll accept ads if ad providers stop making automatic malware.
Sorry for the rant, I'm tired and annoyed.
you know sometimes it shocks me too but google really is free and it’s right there in your hands
I’m sorry, what??? Really google?
new tumblr game: google ur username, go to the images tab, and see what comes up
me looking stuff up: world development questions...
google: that help you get pregnant.
me: .....that help you pol-
google: that help you pollinate
me: .....
me: .... polish your world.....
google: ....
me: ...
google: ....lyrics...
What happens when you google the word 'gay' 😭😭
Social Media and Browsers
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GOOGLE DOODLES ARE VERY CUTE
Like, look at this!
(Instead of getting ready to go to school I was doing the puzzle haha)
I got this in the questionnaire! ↓
I am hydrogen 😭!
(I love chemistry)
if you just use this on firefox, it opens you to the web tab on chrome instead of the main tab.
This is how google usually opens.
and this is how the extension opens it. The only difference is it opens to different preset tabs on the google site.
Me, getting on Tumblr: Alright, now no getting distracted! We're here for writing ideas.
Tumblr: Lol, look it's a gay character.
Me: Liked and moving on to-
Tumblr: He's played by Finn Wolfhard
Me: ...reblogged and away I go to find-
Tumblr: Oh look the post below has something Ben Schwartz related on it...
Me: Oh fuck that would be a problem but there's not enough Ben content on here to make me spend an hour looking through it so it's fine-
Google: Hey, Pinterest has a notification for you also one of your mutuals on Tumblr just posted.
Me: OH SHIT-
google W H Y
so I was on my laptop and I wanted to look at the other photos you can have of Crome new tap page so I go into customize Crome and I find a pic and I click and my Crome thingy ( you know when you type in a website well there that’s what I’m talking about ) turns a poop color and I’m there in customize Crome or whatever it’s called for like 10 mins and I didn’t even remember it being so hard to change the color before so I look up if they change it and the answer I get is something I long the lines of ✨yes we did so you have the perfect colors✨and ok if you want to give preset colors that’s ok but LET ME MAKE MY OWN all it let’s you is slide the hue ( hue is the color like red blue vomit yknow colors) like WHY and the worse part is not only did they get rid of the old colors which were good but all the color are either SOO dark you would think they tried to mix black and gave up or so palest you were a newborn and then there’s a device option so you would you could make your own color WRONG ITS JUST THE DARK UGLY POOP COLORS AGAIN if you don’t already have your google home page or whatever customized you should see how bad it is and then look up the old one and if you have your google home page customized KEEP IT THE WAY YOU LEFT IT AND DONT MAKE MY MISTAKE I’m left with a dusty baby boy and it looks horrible with the photo I’m using
Caine Aus
New thing where I take a character and do them in a swap universe, fell universe, and horror universe (based on arguably the three most popular Undertale Aus Underswap, Underfell, Horrortale). Swapping them with another character in their universe. Making them evil (or good if they already were evil)+angsty. And then making them in some sort of horror universe. Today's specimen is Caine from TADC
Swap: The Amazing Digital Funfair
Caine takes the role of bubble. He's a chatty little chattering teeth set that's always just yapping much to Bubbles annoyance. Not as unhinged as Bubble but is constantly interrupting Bubble and rambling so bubble forcefully shuts his trap, knocking all his teeth out
Fell: The Terrible Digital Circus
Caine is the main antagonist of this Au. He loves torturing the cast for amusement. He sets them on impossible missions that they are doomed to fail from the start and usually ends with all of them dying painfully only to be revived to do it all over again. He particularly likes to pick on Jax and sometimes Pomni. He is unable to feel any empathy so he sees the "Circus Freaks" as toys to play with and if he gets bored of a toy he'll make them more interesting like altering Gangles Mask to be angry or practically brainwashing Kinger to make him like a mini Caine. Some notes are that the shaded parts are meant to actually be golden not grey/black and also his one fang doesn't merge with his eye it goes behind it
Horror: The Amazing Digital Battle Royale
To make this different from the popular horror au Freakshow by @hootbon (tho I did take alot of inspiration) this one is set in a Hunger Games style Battle Royale but a bit worse. While they are battling to the death Caine will bring all the losers back to life after the battle to compete again so they're stuck in an infinite loop of dying and killing each other. If the battles too dull he'll add something interesting like acid candy, piranha like Gloinks, poison gas, or a psycho yandere moon. If the players refuse to fight each other Caine will have Bubble spread misinformation about each other in their voices (like uses Ragathas to make Pomni think she's gonna betray her) if that doesn't work he might take control of one of their bodies and force them to kill and maybe cannibalize their fellow players all while still conscious of their actions. But if a player is just too boring he'll abstract them by causing their insides to slowly destroy themselves giving them a slow painful death. So in short: He's kinda a meanie :(