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The elders crave the slop (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by Flax_vert@feddit.uk to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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I digitally sterilised by great aunt's tablet. Removed YouTube. Removed Google's slop news feed. Switched her browser to brave (no ads) and search engine to duckduckgo. Put on more sensible news outlets like the BBC and ITV.

Now she's complaining that it's "just not as good as it used to be".

My great aunt is going into slop withdrawal.

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[–] november@lemmy.vg 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why Brave? Does she use crypto?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ad blocker

[–] november@lemmy.vg 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vivaldi has a built-in adblocker.

Firefox and its forks have uBlock Origin.

There's no reason to inflict Brave on someone.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What does brave do wrong

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Promotes crypto, it's based on chromium and the CEO is an asshat.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where does it promote crypto

[–] november@lemmy.vg 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://brave.com/wallet/

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Quite cringe but I don't think she'll see that

[–] Brutticus@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago

Its chromium, my guy.

[–] november@lemmy.vg 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More like what does it do right that other browsers don't do better?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ad blocker

[–] november@lemmy.vg 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You literally ignored me pointing out other examples.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Too late for that. Didn't know they existed.