#instead of fb just using them as an excuse to push thousands of useless posts and ads into your timeline

[jcbmcdrmtt]

is anyone else just so tired of how many things you have to do to make the internet a tolerable place these days? like not even a FUN place, just a place that isn't inherently intolerable to humanity??

Like I have 28 Firefox addons enabled, I have 4 mobile browser extensions and multiple userscripts enabled on my phone, I run my own fricking DNS server to block ads on devices/apps where you can't use adblocking software natively, and I'm just. I'm so tired. I should not have to replace a fundamental building block of the internet in order to avoid constant surveillance and intrusive bids for my money and attention. And the only reason I can keep up with all this is because I'm a techy person who genuinely enjoys playing around with software, but if you DON'T have that particular masochistic tendency then it's almost impossible to protect yourself fully because all of this stuff is just so much work and corporations are constantly shifting strategies to stay ahead of you.

So I watch my brother in law browse a recipe site on his phone that is so covered with ads and autoplay videos that only the middle fifth of the screen has the actual recipe visible, and he just suffers through it because he doesn't want to have to mess around with a new browser and learn how to turn an adblocker off if it breaks stuff, the sad part is I get it, because I am fucking exhausted too.

#cw negativity #enshittification #enshittification of the internet #jake's tag rambles #jake talks #idk I just spent like 45 minutes trying to find a way to block reels on mobile fb using ublock origin #and fb intentionally obfuscates their code to make stuff like that as difficult as possible so you can't just use the element zapper #and then last weekend I finally found a working crack for Amazon's newest Kindle DRM #and I spent like 6 hours backing up all of the 300+ ebooks I bought from them in uni before I realized they were a soulsoucking corporation #trying to do everything before they got a chance to change their drm and break the crack again #and then the weekend before THAT i was trying to clear out all the decade and a half of useless facebook pages i had “liked” #you know back when people actually used their likes to convey interests and information about themselves to friends #instead of fb just using them as an excuse to push thousands of useless posts and ads into your timeline #but of course facebook doesn't let you mass-unlike things #and they sent a cease and desist to the person who made a firefox addon to do it for you #and then made the page listing your likes full of dynamic javascript/shifting page elements aka absolute hell to uncheck everything manuall #i finally just went through and unliked/unfollowed 1054 pages one by one #it took me like 3 or 4 hours including the time i spent researching and trying out automated ways to do it #and by the end i was running on nothing but pure visceral spite and a red haze across my field of vision #i am so tired y'all