• late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net
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    13 days ago

    It’s worse than average person. I don’t even see tech-savy friends use adblockers nowadays. No idea why, I never asked.

    And I feel like majority of people don’t even know browser extensions exist, and those who do think it’s all shady and malware, so they avoid those like plague.

    • xylol@leminal.space
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      13 days ago

      I showed my wife the world of extensions like ad block and dark reader. Then she asked for some help one time and I saw she had some sort of tab grouping manager thing and had like a million tabs and was horrified of what I’ve done. I let her know there should be a setting that purges the browser when she closes it but she refused

      • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
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        13 days ago

        Some people use tabs like bookmarks. I remember an ex telling me that Chrome takes 10+ seconds to launch on her phone. When I checked, she literally had 1000+ tabs opened. I kid you not, the tab count said :D like it basically gave up. My flabbers were gasted.