• Awebo@lemm.ee
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    9 minutes ago

    They forgot the last step: delete the promo emails from the company you never signed up for

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    5 hours ago

    Realize that you have an ordered there in a while and you moved since the last time you ordered, you updated your billing address but it didn’t update the shipping address product is now headed toward your old house.

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    We have driver’s licence as an app in norway. I was on my way into a pub where I was asked by a bouncer to show ID. I forgot my physical wallet with physical ID, so the dance started:

    • Unlock phone.
    • Find app.
    • App requires national login. Enter personal number (Norwegian SSN)
    • National login has 2FA via another app. Open that to confirm.
    • National login requires password. My password is in a password manager, so I open that.
    • Password manager requires password.
    • and 2FA.
    • Acquire password and scramble back to the app that required password for national log on.
    • Complete login so I can show that I am 33 years old, which is over the required age of 18.

    In reality, the bouncer just gave up on me at around step 5 and let me in.

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      23 minutes ago

      That sounds like a 60 second thing at most. None of it is worse than having to drive back home for your wallet.

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      There are just things that should be physical things.

      IDs and fucking buttons in cars please. Holy fuck please can we not do the IPAD thing in cars. Please God.

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      Yesterday, I was on the train and the lady checking the tickets at first walked past me without checking mine. After more people had gotten on, she made her route back down the train, when she asked me, if she had checked mine – hmm, she must’ve checked mine – so, she was already about to walk on and out of reflex, I said that she had actually skipped me before.

      Felt a bit silly to then get out my ticket and show it to her, since I clearly wouldn’t have told her to ckeck me, if I didn’t have a valid ticket. Kind of same energy as with your bouncer, like you wouldn’t have all this stuff on your phone and spend the time trying to get into it, if it won’t lead to anything.

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      4 hours ago

      Either he was being a dick (fairly likely all bounces are) or you have a really good moisturizing regimen because there’s no way that a 33-year-old would look like they’re under 18.

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        I definitely do not look like an 18-year old. But I was entering with a group consisting of a variety of looks, so it was just a thing to check everyone.

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    10 hours ago

    Sure, at step 17 you are certain it’s showing ngwt14 but it fails then takes you to an almost twenty year old “identify the motorcycles” with 8 pictures of a partial wheel… or is it a bicycle? And do they mean plural as in for the whole thing or in each image?

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      The latest one is where they show you a picture of it deformed owl and ask you to find all other deformed owls. It’s great because humans are really good identifying pictures of distorted animals, it’s definitely something we evolve to do.

  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Missed the step towards the end were you have to switch browser and restart the whole process because “Firefox not supported” or you’ve an extension that’s a bit overzealous on blocking the checkout popup window.

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      13 hours ago

      Blocked an ad that fucked up the css so dramatically that the checkout button is now permanently stuck at -10% of viewport.

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        I tried to order chicken teriyaki so it would be ready for my wife to pick up en route home. Website requires a login. Make it. It doesn’t log in after creating the login, so log in again. Password wrong. Reset password. Finally get in. Get to last step and there’s no button to send the order. Fortunately, I’d wasted so much time that my wife was already there standing in line.

        I assume it’s just formatted for mobile, but when I’m sitting at my computer, I’m going to use it, it’s always faster. Except when it doesn’t work.

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    8 hours ago

    wow that seems relatively simple given a purchase was made. usually it’s at least 4 more pages and verifications and codes and promos

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    How people can deal with internet without adblockers like uBlock is just baffling. Not only ads, but also all the cookie banners and phone app popups and other crap. uBlock will filter all this shit out so you just use the website without junk and annoyances.

    I’ve used the original Windscribe back when it was still a regular x86 app that acted like a local proxy and would filter out ads and banners. That was early 2000s iirc. Even back then I couldn’t stand all this crap. Today I can’t imagine browsing without uBlock or at minimum with DNS filtering which can’t apply cosmetic filters or more advanced rules.

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      13 hours ago

      AdNauseam. It clicks all the adverts. Yes, this is actively malicious behaviour. No, I don’t care.

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        9 hours ago

        Malicious against advertisers, beneficial to the site you’re visiting.
        That’s a win-win in the desolate place we call the internet today.

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      Just want to post this here for anyone not aware… uBlock “medium” mode. Kind of an unadvertised feature that has to be enabled in a strangely obscure way (I think they want to make sure you’re not a complete idiot).

      Still, pretty easy to set up, and much more protection than the default (but also not nearly as frustrating as “hard” mode or whatever they call it). Basically, most sites you visit are going to be broken the first time you go, but you enable elements you need for the site to load, then save those settings for that domain. Takes about 30 seconds or so once you know what you’re doing and you only need to do it once per domain. Basically, I keep 1st and 3rd-party scripts off completely most of the time. It’s relatively rare that I absolutely need to enable 1st party scripts on a page for it to load.

      It’s kind of like uBlock + noscript learning mode. The element zapper is clutch as well, but that’s not unique to medium mode or anything.

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      DNS level ad blocks have been a huge game changer for me. When I play games at home, no ads. Then when I go out and play those games, I forget that they have ads.

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        For me setting up Android phone without it. Installed some app and got bombarded by all the ads and shit. Something I just don’t even know on mine.

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    #2/9/14

    you forgot that you need to select more options, scroll down, read every box carefully to make sure on doesnt mean off and off doesnt mean on, make sure you dont hit the button that ignores your choices and turns everything on anyways…

    i fucking hate what this has turned into.

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      I just ublock every cookie screen and navigate in incognito mode so cookies publicity cooki s will have zero chances of actually getting read.

      Not as it really matters. As most of my advertisement profile doesn’t come from some random site cookies but from phone espionage.

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    Don’t worry. Soon you’ll be able to subscribe to a service where an AI will just order products you don’t actually want for you.

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    2 seems simple, but every site uses a slightly different variation for opt-in, but every variant is based on your lizard brain being tempted to click accept. The sites that make you scroll through 938 'legitimate interest" partners to get the “reject all” option are particularly shit.

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      Those sites are also breaking the law, by the way. Opting out has to be just as easy as opting in, otherwise it cannot be considered consent.