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AzureDiamondIf I learned one thing, when talking with people about stuff like that: Most people unfortunately don’t care. Many don’t even have an ad blocker to begin with.
Perrobocah, time for a re-watch I guess
What is this from?
The it crowd
Have a good binge
It’s one of the last of the laugh track comedies. Wondering what kids of the future are going to think about shows like that.
Marduk73they had a live audience. at least for the basement/office scenes
Transporter Room 3Laugh tracks and audiences are the worst.
If your show requires prompting on when to laugh, it’s probably not as funny as you think.
Many shows just aren’t that funny when you take out the laughing, and if you were to cut all the awkward pauses the show would be 7 minutes shorter.
LinkOpensChest.wavI know you are right about all of this, and yet I will still watch shows like the old Addams Family while I’m doing something else just to have a distraction
I still have a couple shows I enjoy despite the laugh track… Just in general I would prefer not to watch them, and I’m unlikely to give a new show half a chance if it has one.
there are shows where it works (Frasier) and shows where it’s horrible (Frasier 2023)
“rolling laughter” is a technique you have to learn as a live performer for a reason. TV shows at the time had to bridge the gap as the 80s/90s invention of stand up as an art form set the tone for how comedy should be.
It’s not that it was always bad, it’s just that culture changed. Same as how a Jacobite audient would find it real weird we watch theatre inside(!), sitting down(!!) and not talking during the show(!!!).
The IT Crowd is objectively hilarious without the laugh track. It’s a British thing. They have laugh tracks or studio audiences on most programs.
LumidaubJust maybe avoid watching it in a way that the creator profits from.
Why’s that?
An episode of the IT Crowd had a B story that was kinda transphobic. It was minor enough and the show was popular enough he probably could’ve easily just apologized and that would’ve been that. But instead, in 2013 after said episode was brought up and criticized for being transphobic to the creator, said creator tripled down and became a full on anti-trans “activist” who makes even JK Rowling seem benign by comparison.
Ohh dang. Thanks for the explain. I’ve never seen IT Crowd, and now I have a good reason not to. Fuck that guy.
CysioGraham Linehan is a prolific transphobe
He’s also actively picking fights with supporters of trans and non-binary people, such as recently David Tennant of all people.
ughIt doesn’t seem to be streaming anywhere, so anyone who doesn’t have an excessive amount to spend on a TV series won’t be giving any profits to the creators.
And many people also do use an adblocker backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users
joneskindLook, I was among the glorious warriors who installed Firefox on his parents/grandparents PC and replaced its shortcut’s image with IE’s one (because old people hate changes and won’t accept it easily)
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Oh again! They keep changing my Google internet!
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Yes grandma, it’s Windows… (« It wasn’t Windows » says the narrator in a deep and mysterious voice) do you want me to install Linux? It’s free and open source and…
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Keep that commie thing away from me, I like that meadow picture…
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You know you can change th…
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Don’t you dare!
Anyway. We did it. We killed IE hegemony. It’s up to the new generation to take the baton and fight against the tyranny of Google.
jballsThe idea of installing Linux on a grandparent’s computer is just asking for trouble. I convinced my father in law to give a Chromebook a try since he mostly just uses his computer to get online and boy, was that tricky. The average person has no idea what an Operating System is and will call you the minute they can’t install a new program for some reason.
I had a very successful experience! My grandmother had no idea how computers worked at all, so I set up a very stripped-down Ubuntu that didn’t even allow multiple windows open. I could easily remote in whenever she had an issue.
She used it to check her email, read the news, and watch Obama’s weekly address until the week she died. (Unrelated to the computer)
I feel like there’s a curve of where this could work. For the extremely technically illiterate or technically literate, you’d be ok. But for the middle chunk of the population, it’d be more confusing than it’s worth.
It can be very good for folk who are too tech illiterate to install any program by themselves.
killeronthecornerThe people who don’t care and don’t have an adblocker aren’t and weren’t ever the target. The people who are have an adblocker are, and they’re all moving to FireFox.
What Google is getting out of this most of all is future compliance as new users coming to Chrome will never know a world in which ad blockers were freely available on Chrome, as well as dog whistling this to other corporate browser vendors.
zaphDon’t forget they’re pushing chrome on the whole internet. Websites are already telling Firefox users to fuck off if we aren’t spoofing chromium and it’s only going to get worse after this.
Firefox is my daily and I very rarely encounter a site that specifically rejects it. Do you have some examples?
🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑Seriously it’s opposite for me actually. I find that websites tend to have issues on chromium but they don’t on Firefox
I’d tell you but it’d dox me. I can’t pay my utilities on Firefox.
Long term they will move to Firefox also.
Because people like us will continue to suggest they use Firefox as their “tech person”.
It’s just a little slower for the people that don’t care.
That is exactly how Chrome took over internet explorer back in the day.
Google when people stop using chrome
Not so sure about that. I know more than enough persons who still like to use Edge (Internet Explorer).
I use Edge at work and it’s a really decent browser. It’s not Internet Explorer it’s basically Chrome with different tracking software lol
Obviously I use Firefox personally. But it’s actually decent.
I also use it at work and it really sucks. I also have Chrome on my work computer, but for everything work-related I have to use Edge. Like E-Mails and Sharepoint-Stuff. Edge’s startup time is at least 4 times Chrome’s startup time. Sites load extremely slow directly compared to Chrome. No Adblockers. I really don’t like this.
AcornCarnageYou can install extensions right from the Chrome Web Store with Edge. I have uBlock Origin is Edge on my work PC.
Not for long 😞
ares35ublock origin is published to the addon 'store' for edge and opera, in addition to mozilla's (firefox and thunderbird) and chrome. links to all are on the repo's main page https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
JaysynI also use it at work and it really sucks. I also have Chrome on my work computer, but for everything work-related I have to use Edge. Like E-Mails and Sharepoint-Stuff.
That's a decision your IT department made. I use Firefox with all of that at work.
Can confirm. I also have to use Sharepoint with certain groups, and it works just fine. The web interface for Outlook works just fine as well.
I also have to use Google, and everything I’ve used works within Firefox.
I think it’s important to point this out because a lot of people seem to be laboring under the misconception that the sites they use will break in Firefox. The only sites I’ve found that don’t work are things like Bing AI, which work fine if you switch the user agent header.
chrisThe problem isn’t Edge in itself. It is good if there are many browsers. But when Javascript became more than just a play thing, all of a sudden browser slowly moved to chromium as an engine. There used to be Opera, IE, Edge, Firefox, Safari and Chrome with each their own browser engine. Now there is only Chromium/Blink, Safari and Firefox left. Google is way too powerful with their marketshare. They constantly try to implement features that are bad for users.
Please use Firefox if you can!
At least at home and on mobile I absolutely do o7
I’ve started using Firefox at work, too. Unfortunately, I still have to use a lot of the Google sites at work, but they all work flawlessly within Firefox and uBO.
SamsyNew engines are in test stage, servo, ladybird etc.
ElPussyKangarooOh thank God. I was worried nobody will make new engines.
Oh thank God. I was worried nobody would make new engines.
The problem is that it will take ages for them to get any adoption in a new browser. Firefox used to be a big player and then chrome came along. Now most of the people don’t even try Firefox anymore. I still hear a lot of “Firefox is slow” sentiment even though it isn’t.
Edge isn’t IE, it’s reskinned Chromium.
I doubt most people use an adblocker.
Anyone who’s aware of these issues or cares about them really should have been smart enough to switch to Firefox a long time ago.
Must be enough to make big companies angry
I think it’s more that they know most people won’t bother if they make it difficult.
A lot of people do use Adblockers. backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users
You can try other sources as well. The statistics say significant numbers on multiple places.
I wouldn’t personally call 42% that high.
A big enough hit if 42% of Chrome users switch to a different browser.
However, I wouldn’t be surprised to see that people with adblock are more likely to use something other than Chrome. And some people will stay with Chrome and deal with the lack of adblock.
Roughly 60% of people use chrome so I’m sure there is a big cross over.
But I feel if people really cared they wouldn’t use chrome to begin with.
Time will tell.
BeigeAgendaIt’s much better than what I observe with people around me, I would have guessed about 10%
AussiemandeusI use duck duck go. The browser on my phone even auto opts out of cookies
You can also do that with Firefox on your computer.
It’s not in settings, but you can easily google the instructions.
Duck duck go also runs it's own vpn which is great if you can't root your phone.