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Bought my uncle a burger and milkshake in exchange for letting me disrupt the holiest day of the week, NFL Sunday Football, so I could install a Pi-hole and free the household of ads...the thing abt the specific boomers I live with is they told me not to trust people on the Internet but they do not understand the algorithm or online advertising and think that Facebook has their best interests at heart. And every time I have tried to explain to them that no, blorbo from my dashboard is not selling my kidneys on the dark web but Google from your capitalism is definitely selling your web searches to every advertising company on the planet, they think I am paranoid. How could their personal friend Mark Zuckerberg want anything bad to happen to them etc. I am fighting battles I did not know existed!!!

Update I have had Pi-Hole successfully installed for two (2) hours and have since learned that 40% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. FORTY FUCKING PERCENT. We live in hell. This is the greatest gift I have ever given my family that they will not understand or acknowledge or feel any gratitude for.

Update #2: it was rising all night but the number it finally settled on was...60%. 60% of the web traffic in this household went to advertisements. I can't tell if this high number is bc I live in Silicon Valley and probably am subject to the Algorithmic Internet in ways people outside of Silicon Valley are not or it is normal to have 2/3rds of your web traffic be ads, but it did make me set up a recurring donation of the EFF lmfao.

wartortles-deactivated20180708

Okay I have had multiple people ask, so here are the useful websites that me and Beryl used to muddle our way through:

Using Pi-hole and Raspberry Pi (on the Raspberry Pi website, really good overview of what Pi-hole does)

Tumblr-archived Twitter thread about one household's experience with Pi-hole (this is what sold me on it. Also the tweets were published in 2022 and Pi-hole is actively being developed, so I think some of the teething problems he mentioned might have cleared up or are at least being addressed.)

Pi-hole website (gives broad strokes of the software and imho is not actually that helpful, however this proves that I am not making shit up)

Pi-hole documentation (read prerequisites carefully, you do NOT need the newest model of Raspberry Pi to run this thing!! You don't even need a Raspberry Pi at all, you can run it on a bunch of Linux systems however I'm very stupid when it comes to Linux and when my options are install and learn a whole ass new OS or spend $$ on a Raspberry Pi and hook it up to my TV with a wired mouse and keyboard I will unfortunately be spending money)

Privacy International's guide to setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi (bro this one saved our asses)

You guys can ask me questions if you want but I guarantee I will not know the answers bc I don't know shit about fuck, I just followed the directions and reaped the rewards. It did take us 2 hours to set up bc I'm bad at following directions (and it's kind of complicated if you've been out of the software game for a while like I have), and you do have to be sososo brave about fucking around with your internet provider's configuration. So make sure you eat before you do it!! However it has been so worth it for me so far, given that now all my devices at home are running faster and I'm not seeing any ads while web browsing. We will see what complaints my family comes up with, but I love it so far.

Also!! if you've never heard of Raspberry Pi, which I realize are not all of my followers are lost in the Silicon Valley sauce so you might not have, here's is their website and their page for using Raspberry Pi at home.

(And here is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit that fights for digital privacy, free speech, and innovation, if you, like me, were presented with cold hard data about your personal internet usage and suddenly realized that our internet is fully a dystopia. haha.)

acquitarte

After a few months with pi-hole, I recently switched to AdGuard Home. It was recommended/is co-promoted in a pi-hole discord server, and it seems to be blocking a bit more successfully/consistently for me than the pi-hole did.

I also use Blokada on my phone when I'm not home and have the Windscribe browser extension which includes 10GB of free VPN traffic and has uBlock integrated into it. (AdGuard does technically make things that do this but I like those better; ymmv).

It all takes some setup and tinkering, but I highly, highly recommend taking steps to clear out some of the internet garbage and protect your info.

wet-floor-sign-official

Hi yes hello

As an official OCD haver this is a really easy way to trigger it 🤠

Don't

Do this

Don't do this

YOURE OK.

They will be ok.

You do not need to reblog this

You will not be seen as a bad person for not reblogging anything like this

It's okay

#its the chica deterrent

your 12th emoji is how you'll die

splorgoborgobo

☕️

noelleaxolotl

🔛

on what

a-rand0m-bl0g

👄

What does that mean?

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN????

talkingteardrop

💀

WELL NO SHIT

starrybow22

💛 WTF DOES THIS MEAN??

the-nightmares-never-end

👈

The only thing to my left RN is my grandma-

blood-zero

💜 Welp- I’m going to die from a heart attack.-

nightmaretherabbit

😑

the-autistic-spider

🧢

immortallitea

📦

What

What does that mean

quackery-binx

🤭

huh, i die of silly mischief ig

seasaltstarsstuff

✨️

I’ll die fancily

arrowheadedbitch

👁

THE BEHOLDING????

autistic-human

🌊

I’m going to drown I guess

yourlocalapplejuice

🫡

Oh well that’s helpful 💀

💙

whagt

salamie-baby

🫵

You.

that’s right, i stole your kidneys and you are now dying.

totallyofficialtacobell

🥪

Wtf which one of you poisoned my sandwich

i did

yes you are. it’s time you know the truth.

chat, show him the prophecy

wait hold on what prophecy

the prophecy

ok yes but what the fuck is the prophecy

💥

damn. execute me by firework ifg

♾️

decided to do it again. fuck does this mean

bonafide-browser-brave

🧅

…onion. 🤨 We all know who has an onion logo. Tor why would you murder the bravest most slay lion

somethingusefulfromflorida

i choose to interpret the emoji as you choking on an onion, which was definitely not my fault because i was busy watching bfdi

#onion chat #its brave

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prokopetz

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

Thou wouldst not downloadeth a car

while im here, anyone play find the markers?

lunarberrylatte

hey so you know even if the trans girl doesn't pass you still have to use her pronouns right?

even if she doesn't "try to pass" she still deserves the same basic respect you give everybody else.

even if she's done something bad that doesn't excuse you misgendering her on purpose.

i'm so sick of people treating trans people's pronouns as some kind of reward you get if you've been a good tranny.

this goes for those who use neopronouns too i dont care how "weird" you think it is especially if you're trans yourself.

it really is that easy :)

mousidy

and yes, they/themming her when you already know her pronouns is misgendering

phantomrose96

I love this image immensely because first and foremost I find it incredibly funny to apply in dire situations. But second and second-most because on occasion, in certain circumstances, it represents a truth and gospel unmatched by any other statement on the internet.

while im here, anyone play find the markers?

laciffo-3oa-ton-yletinifed

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edit: people are reblogging without the addition so im putting the extra versions in the base post too

#its laciffo 3oa

sushi1056

deactivated

So thoroughly nuked that there isn’t even any record of their original blog url

ivys-garden

The Forbidden Knowledge

bisexual-engineer-girl

not even any notes. I feel like I’ve stumbled upon a plot-advancing skeleton’s notebook

marshmallow-dust

they were erased

they knew too much

definitely-ao3-offical

even the notes are broken too

they already said that, idiot.

#onion chat #its laciffo 3oa

important knowledge despite the broken notes. have i posted this before? idk

wartortles-deactivated20180708

your 12th emoji is how you'll die

splorgoborgobo

☕️

noelleaxolotl

🔛

on what

a-rand0m-bl0g

👄

What does that mean?

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN????

talkingteardrop

💀

WELL NO SHIT

starrybow22

💛 WTF DOES THIS MEAN??

the-nightmares-never-end

👈

The only thing to my left RN is my grandma-

blood-zero

💜 Welp- I’m going to die from a heart attack.-

nightmaretherabbit

😑

the-autistic-spider

🧢

immortallitea

📦

What

What does that mean

quackery-binx

🤭

huh, i die of silly mischief ig

seasaltstarsstuff

✨️

I’ll die fancily

arrowheadedbitch

👁

THE BEHOLDING????

autistic-human

🌊

I’m going to drown I guess

yourlocalapplejuice

🫡

Oh well that’s helpful 💀

💙

whagt

salamie-baby

🫵

You.

that’s right, i stole your kidneys and you are now dying.

totallyofficialtacobell

🥪

Wtf which one of you poisoned my sandwich

i did

yes you are. it’s time you know the truth.

chat, show him the prophecy

wait hold on what prophecy

the prophecy

ok yes but what the fuck is the prophecy

💥

damn. execute me by firework ifg

♾️

decided to do it again. fuck does this mean

oh man looking back on my old posts is crazy. so many deactivated blogs. rip target

im not dead bitches. well i was but im not anymore. is there a browser blog tag

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burgerking-official

carol holiday is an awful person but she is lowkey a milf

#onion chat #its burger king

i'd argue with you but i think tenna's hot so

imagine being a deadbeat

Imagine not paying child support

imagine being a bottom

Imagine being a salty bitch

imagine having shit subs

Imagine being a hypocrite

imagine being gay

IMAGINE BEING A HYPOCRITE

IMAGINE REPEATING THE SAME SENTANCE TWICE

sentence*

also FUCK YOU HARLOTWAY

GLORYHOLE SUBS

I SAID THERE WEREN'T ANY, USE YOUR EYES AND ACTUALLY READ NEXT TIME

deciduousfuckhead

Give me a power drill and I can fix that

give them a power drill i know how much you love glory holes firehouse

Silence, wench, I love no such thing

bull

I'd rather choose a gloryhole lined with barbed wire than suffering through the traumatic experience of speaking to ever again

dont worry I'll make one in one of your bathroom stalls

Thanks, bbg

of course you'd thank me for that weirdo

What else am I supposed to say? Am I supposed to insult you? Do you want me to insult you? Do you LIKE being insulted? That's a bit strange, even for you

don't twist my words you dipshit YOU'RE the one with the degrading kink not ME