Remember when the web didn’t suck?
Here’s what’s behind that stupid ad
It clearly implies there is some kind of safety benefit to it. But there is not.
Clicking on the ad leads to a lengthy slide show which eventually gets to the doorknob story.
All it says is aluminum foil can be used as an alternative to tape to cover doorknobs and hardware while painting.
It has nothing to do with safety and the inclusion of the phrase “when you’re home alone” was only used as clickbait to make the ad seem more important.
Thanks for taking one for the team and checking that out. I sure wasn’t gonna
I Always click on those ads to waste their daily budget
I might have looked it up. Even when I’m 99% sure something is a scam I often want to push a little further to understand more about how the scam operates but I don’t think I have enough skill or dedication to scambait properly.
The quality of the internet is so low these days
“Articles” like this have been around for decades unfortunately
I’ve been using ad blockers for so long that I forgot about these ridiculous click bait ads.
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If I were less lazy, I’d make a gif of myself zapping your comment with the uBlock Origin element zapper tool.
Yeah, but here we are
I appreciate the mental image
Thank you for taking that bullet for us!
Of course, the “while painting” was implied. I’m so embarrassed I didn’t clue in immediately.
Thank you. I was pondering why put foil on door knobs.
Obviously! To keep the knob’s thoughts from being read.
I mean… if you are like, home alone status, in a whole ass house with a bunch of doors… maybe covering the knobs in foil would make it so some kind of intruder makes more noise when opening doors, as they either handle the foil opening the door, or when removing the foil?
???
It kind of makes some sense?
Big foils propaganda at work.
I was under the impression it was a safety thing. If you grab loose foil like that it will form to the hand crushing it to turn the knob and therefore you know the home has had “visitors” without you saying so.
I can remember around 1999-2000 if you clicked the wrong thing in IE you’d get 50 popup windows with ads for porn. At least that’s behind us.
This still happens on dodgy football streaming sites.
Use Ublock origin as it blocks the rapid redirects
Oh I know, it doesn’t affect me but just pointing out it still exists!
Find the ones that only give you 2-3 links to go through. They used to exist for the NHL atleast.
Then you also had the sites that would trap you there, every time you clicked the back button it would just reload the page.
Every single Microsoft site still does this.
I mean there are still websites that open themselves 10 times so you can’t click back out of them. I am curious as to what their end game is. Do they imagine we go “well damn can’t go back out of this page, might as well start living here now”
firefox and ublock origin will filter these right out
Remember when the web didn’t suck?
Was there ever a time? In the late 80s and early 90s when it was mostly text only, there really wasn’t a whole lot of content, and bandwidth sucked massively.
Once connection speeds improved, we got banner ads, popups, and noisy flash animations, all of which were vectors to install viruses.
Then came google, facebook and amazon, and monopolized the web.
Every era sucked in its own right. But I’m rather using it now where plenty of other educated people develop countermeasures that work out of the box, rather than having to fiddle around with browser configurations to block ads and malware myself.
TL;DR: Use adblock.
There’s less info now than a few years ago and it’s harder to find. Web 2.0 has put most of the data and traffic into just a few hands. And as we can see with Twitter that can lead to a significant part of the Internet going to shit overnight.
Hell, most of us are here because of what reddit did overnight. It’s certainly better than the age of web rings but we’ve entered a downturn.
Agree, especially with the getting harder to find part. I’ve followed some other user’s recommendation and have been using kagi.com for the last 2 weeks as my search engine of choice, and it’s really way ahead of google these days. I’m still in the free tier but about to hit the ceiling this week, and I’m rather certain I’ll end up paying for it before I go back to google.
The results are about on par with Goolge ~2022. No ads, no trackers, and most of the SEO garbage that’s targeting google (and maybe bing?) is by and large disregarded. Worth a try for sure.
99% of the time I just want a wikipedia summary, i just search wikipedia directly now and have done for years
In the late 80s and early 90s
Hold up there… HTLM wasn’t even invented until 1991 by Timothy Berners-Lee who then made the first web server, web browser, and web page. It was another two or three years before browsing the web became more common. Before then, the internet was very basic, consisted of a few simple services, and was typically only accessible via universities and large corporations.
Regular people often only had access to regional online services until national services like CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL came along.
Yep, ARPAnet and some messaging boards pre-90’s. Slow as hell and limited content, that’s what I mean.
The internet existed pre-web. Email, Usenet, IRC, Archie, etc. the real difference between ARPANET and the Internet was the introduction of TCP/IP packet handling and CIX which unified ISPs, but those both came pre-1991.
At least now I can watch porn without it turning out to be that middle eastern dude getting his head cut off
Use Ublock origin as it blocks malicious sites.
So I think the idea of the tinfoil is that somebody grabbing the knob will make noise.
Therefore altering you.
You’d be better off with an alarm system and a deadbolt lock, though.
Alternatively the intruder will just be so confused they’ll decide to break into another house instead of figuring out what the foil does
Probably assume they ran out of socks.
You put foil on the knob when you have a date with a leftover pizza.
That’s what I figured - pretty much any alarm system would be better, but could technically help you in a pinch
I’ll just stick with the old and reliable thank you
The only thing infecting me reading this is cringe.
I wanna know who did the financing for the ad. A tinfoil company? Big
ToughSofty Iron? A Goog guy worn off yoga?(I aim to not say the fifthglyph for all days to promote !avoid5@sh.itjust.works)
It’s an ad in your post, fittingly (although yours isn’t particularly ironic).
Do you know of oulipo.social? No fifth symbols found on all of that domain.
(btw i wanted to somehow word in “at least once per day”, but found using “per”, “every”, “for each” etc challenging to translate)
“I might try to put up a (compliant) post a day for a half-fortnight”?
thought it fit! >:)
ooh, kinda wonky of los oulipos to call that thing just cuz of that only work which had this gimmick
also i think that the original book allows using “the”, in fact it also allows “me” and forms of “be”. so los oulipos gonna <this is hard>, huh?
this is supposed to be political, WHAT DO DOORKNOBS HAVE TO DO WITH POLITICS
Knobs are common in politics. I’m not sure about doors.
Why are they quoting a wolf? They didn’t talk the last time I checked.
Check again, it’s getting crazy out there.
oh shit
CNN and other news organizations in a nutshell
In Canada, we have a state broadcaster, which is nice. The current election frontrunner, according to the polls, is a guy who’s made it his entire life’s quest to get rid of it. Sigh.
I can’t say I would want state run media but then again, I’m not Canadian
We have private ones too, to be clear. And the CBC doesn’t actually take orders on what to run.
In the US we have NPR (for some reason)
The web back then didn’t have AdBlock. Now it does. So not really lol.
I’m so frustrated with the internet right now. My wife started making Castile soap and I’m trying to find out if its some fu-fu-berry-bullshit or like an actual decent soap. Google is feeding me momfluencers (which range from ‘fine but there is no accountability’ to blatant grifters) and sites that are simply trying to sell this stuff. I’m going to try again with kagi tonight, but it’s still very frustrating that I never know what to trust anymore. The bullshit is coming faster than I’m able to handle it
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/castile-soap
That’s a reputable org.
You beautiful bastard, that’s exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.
I’m bookmarking that page. Thank you!
It was literally the first result on DuckDuckGo for me FWIW.
I used to use DuckDuckGo but I found it wasn’t very good. Haven’t tried in a few years though
A good way to make your own soap without artificial fragrances in them. My wife has skin sensitive to fragrances, and most commercial soaps have fragrance (even unscented Yeesh)
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me: what a silly article who could ever fall for this
also me: buys lots of tinfoil just in case
Tinfoil never goes bad, it can’t hurt to stock up!!!
Use an adblocker in your browser and an ad-blocking DNS server like Mullvad DNS (it’s super easy on Android, just search for Private DNS in the settings and set it to
base.dns.mullvad.net), AdGuard DNS (same thing, super easy, just set it todns.adguard-dns.com) or NextDNS on your phone (and ideally on all your other devices). There’s also an app called AdAway, but it takes up the VPN slot so you can’t use it together with a VPN.
