• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    All you people too young to remember the late 1990s, enjoy the internet as we used to know it before adblockers, because it sounds like you’re going to be out of options a lot of times soon.

    I plan to use Firefox as long as I can, but I hate that I already have to have a backup browser for some sites, including the back end of the website where I used to work. And that will only get worse.

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        11 months ago

        Remember when websites could open infinite windows, and prevent you from backout out or closing windows?

        Even if things get really bad, they wont get that bad. Also dont forget flash meant the ads were media rich, security hole ridden, cpu spinning, awful monsters as well.

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          11 months ago

          It wasn’t that bad, you just have to reformat your pc every other week and have a second air gapped pc with anything important 😂

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      My first desk job was in 96 and even then I needed 3 browsers to get the different government websites to work properly. I don’t know if there was a time before needing a backup browser.