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by indymike 1058 days ago
Lately, I've been having developers and designers on my team install each of the three major browsers without plugins and visit five of the "top 10 media sites" (https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/news-and-media/), plus twitter, facebook and linkedin for a total of two hours so they see what the web looks like for regular users. It doesn't take long for people to realize just how terrible 25 years of accumulated surveillance, advertising and front-end cruft has made the web.
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I'm quite literally shocked whenever I have to use a relative's computer for a bit.
You may want to check that the outlet is grounded.
I traveled and I wonder why someone would use Youtube's free tier, There's like an ads every 3 minutes, plus the ones when the video starts (Youtube don't show ads in my country). My Twitch usage has gone down a lot because of 7-8 ads in a row. I would subscribe to the few creators I follow if not for the friction when I want to quickly check another creator's page (give me like at least 15 minutes without ads).