The ad in the middle of this article about conspiracy theories

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here’s what’s behind that stupid ad

  www.10news.com/…/fact-or-fiction-online-ad-advise…

  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.

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  • perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks for taking one for the team and checking that out. I sure wasn’t gonna

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    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I Always click on those ads to waste their daily budget

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The quality of the internet is so low these days

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    • kaboom36@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Articles” like this have been around for decades unfortunately

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been using ad blockers for so long that I forgot about these ridiculous click bait ads.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Click here to find out 10 more reasons to use ad blockers now!

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  • Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you for taking that bullet for us!

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  • Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Of course, the “while painting” was implied. I’m so embarrassed I didn’t clue in immediately.

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  • ReiRose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ❤

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Big foils propaganda at work.

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  • breetai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you. I was pondering why put foil on door knobs.

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    • BobbyNevada@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Obviously! To keep the knob’s thoughts from being read.

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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?

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  • Exusia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • JohnSwanFromTheLough@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This still happens on dodgy football streaming sites.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Use Ublock origin as it blocks the rapid redirects

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Find the ones that only gov you 2-3 links to go through. They used to exist for the NHL atleast.

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then you also had the sites that would trap you there, every time you clicked the back button it would just reload the page.

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    • DemBoSain@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Every single Microsoft site still does this.

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    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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”

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      <script> function openNewWindow() {

        window.open("https://this.site.com", "_blank");
      
        newWindow.moveTo(0, 0);
        
        newWindow.resizeTo(screen.width, screen.height);
      
      }
      
      window.onbeforeunload = function() {
        openNewWindow();
      };
      

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At least that’s behind us.

    I sure am (‿!‿) ԅ(≖‿≖ԅ)

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  firefox and ublock origin will filter these right out

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

  Sorry, I couldn’t resist. And contrariwise to this pic I do agree with you, the web used to be better. Sure, ads were always a fucking annoyance, but they’re reaching unbearable levels nowadays; a lot of people (like me) tend to not see it because of ad blockers, but once you turn them off? Eeeeew.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, you could land on a bad site full of nasty ads or wind up downloading software that offered you the finest of malware or viruses.

    And you could just not go to them, or not download sus programs or warez.

    Now the sites and apps hunt you down and shove it in your face. They follow you, rat on you, sell your info, and constantly try to sel You stuff every page you land on.

    Yeah, Old Internet wasn’t great, but it wasn’t institutionalized malice like we have today.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wild that the original of this image edit was “remember when /b/ was good” back in 2005

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Whenever I turn off AdGuard on my phone to get something to work and then forget it’s off I’m bombarded with ads everywhere and I’m like “oh, yeah, gotta turn that back on”

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  • mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s the nostalgia filter. By the 2030s, some would think the year 2020 is the closest thing to utopia humans actually experienced

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There was, like, a golden age in the early 10’s before popups and animations everywhere, and after popups and animations everywhere.

    It’s possible I’m just nostalgic. If it sucked some way I’m not remembering I’m very interested to hear about it.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, I don’t

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Neato@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep, ARPAnet and some messaging boards pre-90’s. Slow as hell and limited content, that’s what I mean.

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  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At least now I can watch porn without it turning out to be that indian dude getting his head cut off

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Use Ublock origin as it blocks malicious sites.

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Remember when the web didn’t suck?

  No, I don’t. Not since 2000, when I logged on from home for the first time. The majority of it has always sucked. Then the web can suddenly do new things… and finds new ways to suck.
  It has, however, always had excellent little areas and corners.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Right? Do you remember going to websites and your computer would yell out that you were watching porn? Ads would burst forth like you just won fucking Solitaire. Shit took forever to download, and if you lost connection in the middle, start over!

    I guess if you started using the Internet after like 2008, when things really started to take off, you saw a golden hour. But it was a dangerous place in the early 2000s, although I learned a lot about how to unfuck computers in my quest for boobs as a teenager.

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    • tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I miss early YouTube that had full episodes of just about any TV show illegally uploaded without any sort of copyright enforcement.

      I also miss reddit, but what it used to be is gone forever.

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    • jdf038@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Knowing about “Temporary Internet Files” while my family was unaware made me feel like some sort of God of knowledge.

      Oh and yeah I think I found porn there hooray!

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• krnl386@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually the ad matches the article. To me the ad is “fringe” and it has infested the “mainstream” (CNN).

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • turbowafflz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Alternatively the intruder will just be so confused they’ll decide to break into another house instead of figuring out what the foil does

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Probably assume they ran out of socks.

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  • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That's what I figured - pretty much any alarm system would be better, but could technically help you in a pinch

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll just stick with the old and reliable thank you

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why are they quoting a wolf? They didn’t talk the last time I checked.

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  • Syd@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Check again, it’s getting crazy out there.

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      oh shit

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• FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The only thing infecting me reading this is cringe.

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• M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What? That is gold, not Mildly Infuriating at all.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The MSM tries to act like the voice of reason when they’re the biggest purveyors of disinfo by a wide margin.

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  • perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you mean via ads like this, I would agree. They could do more to filter out the garbage.

    But if you mean in their content, I’m not seeing that, beyond the usual (long history) leaning to one side or another.

    But these are two very different things and shouldn’t be equated.

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  me: what a silly article who could ever fall for this

  also me: buys lots of tinfoil just in case

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tinfoil never goes bad, it can’t hurt to stock up!!!

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• pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  this is supposed to be political, WHAT DO DOORKNOBS HAVE TO DO WITH POLITICS

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• Glifted@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wanna know who did the financing for the ad. A tinfoil company? Big Tough Softy Iron? A Goog guy worn off yoga?

  (I aim to not say the fifthglyph for all days to promote !avoid5)

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• moon@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The web back then didn’t have AdBlock. Now it does. So not really lol.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  CNN and other news organizations in a nutshell

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• Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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 to dns.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.

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• ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I only had to play an hour of “Thief” to thank myself I don’t have door knobs.

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• Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just saw this but with a toilet paper roll under the toilet seat when alone.

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