It got my OS right, but browser wrong. Tested both Librewolf and Vivaldi, which it sees as Firefox and Chrome.

The world will be fine.

Humanity on the other hand…

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Why would they arrest their own undercover agents?

Ever hear the term “Agent provocateur”?

dealing with ads

Just use an adblocker. It’s basic internet safety at this point. I recommend ublock origin. If you’re on mobile, android’s version of firefox can use it as well.

That #1 is close to my own reason - a few small communities I’m part of, with very little fediverse activity.

Always using an adblocker of course, having one is basic internet safety, and it reducing reddit’s profits is a nice bonus.

I’ve also got 300, no clue what to do with it. Maybe give out 3 random silvers? Not that it does anything.

Problem is, you don’t become a billionaire without massive amounts of exploiting people for profit, and someone like that isn’t going to support Lemmy since there’s no profit to be had. There are no left-leaning billionaires, only neo-liberal billionaires.

Not a fan of that argument. Twitter/Threads/Facebook/Reddit/etc are big enough to be considered a public forum, even if they’re being controlled by a private entity rather than a government.

My screenshot is from firefox viewing lemmy.world. If you’re using an app, can’t help you there. Try seeing what each of those buttons does I guess? Also, out of curiosity, what app is that?

This is the cross-post button:

lemmy.ml doesn’t have easy signups the way lemmy.world does.

Though I do have accounts on a few different instances, just in case. And so I don’t get blinded by light mode when links send me to another instance.

Well, you see, the CEO really wants another mega-yacht. So obviously, decreasing profits by actually paying their workers a reasonable wage is bad, it’ll delay the purchase of the yacht by days. Multiple days even!

old-reddit can still do it while logged out. It’s only new-reddit that requires logging in.

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

Yes and no. It’s harder, but even with an adblocker, your internet signature (things like browser size, are you blocking ads, did you send a “do not track” header, etc) is enough to identify you in a lot of cases. AdNauseam goes the opposite direction, instead of hiding your data, it fills their data collection with so much garbage that they’ll have a hard time figuring anything out about you. From what I understand, it doesn’t actually load the ads, just sees where the ad points to, and tells the ad provider that you clicked it while at the same time blocking it. So it would be very slightly worse in terms of performance and data usage compared to uBlock Origin, but not in any noticeable way, since the stuff it sends is much smaller than any actual content.

I expect adblockers will find a way around that. If nothing else, AdNauseam should work, as it tells the site that you clicked all of the ads it’s blocking (making it much harder for them to build a profile on you).