How to use a website:

[donty@mastodon.tetaneutral.net]

@maxleibman People have given up on the challenge of controlling their destiny as they are too busy just surviving.

The internet used to be stuff that anyone could provide and support. Email, chat, web, news, files, search and a whole world of control and interaction.

The corporate world is doing what it does best making things shittier and making us dream smaller and imagine the world can't be more than they offer.

Patently not true but they drip the message in constantly.

[myricagale@mastodon.scot]

@maxleibman I always leave when it requests item 1!

[dasmatus@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman 0. Send your ID bumfuck nowhere.

[sam_bass@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman

ive gotten to when i see a search result that basically leads to something not even passively related to the search term, i will send feedback on the term via the items' drop down menu. duckduck may or may not read it, but it makese feel a little better

[ohmrun@indieweb.social]

@maxleibman
This is a George Carlin bit in the works.

[tylerlwsmith@hachyderm.io]

@maxleibman new step dropping soon: "age" verification

[anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz]

@maxleibman if the website requires any of these steps then it is not the content I was looking for

more websites need to realize how optional they are. there is no shortage of better things to do in this world.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@maxleibman

1. Get shown intricate cookie dialog.

2. Skip site.

[the_moep@mastodon.de]

@maxleibman
If I have to do 1. I'm usually out. I will not look at ads, no matter what your site does.

[harib_murshidi@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman and if you are accessing the website from some #globalsouth shithole sometimes "Access denied" or we have detected suspicious activity ! 🤬

[theonlyvenc@hachyderm.io]

@maxleibman https://www.famouscampaigns.com/2026/03/norwegian-consumer-council-spoofs-enshittification-in-hilarious-ad/

[redstar@m.hirad.it]

@maxleibman or use Brave since it blocks most of that nonsense.

[a53bdb@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman My ad blocker blocked ad blocker blocker.

[lovely_natur_und_kultur@cultur.social]

@maxleibman

[stevewfolds@mastodon.world]

@maxleibman
Leave immediately when asked to disable ad blocker and search for another source.

[fabianlucchi@infosec.exchange]

@maxleibman @nixCraft and you maybe forgot somewhere in between :
- update your OS because it decided it was time *now*
- update your password manager
- update your browser ; oh crap, session is lost. Start over at nr 2 above

[sam4000@troet.cafe]

@kickeriekuh @kinsale42 @maxleibman

That's what annoys me about fan wikis; that's why I've blocked them with my ad blocker.

[arnowi@mas.to]

@maxleibman 13. Discover it's just AI generated slop

[templailloahi@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman reader mode goes brrrrr

[pouakai@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman
0. change to a site doesn't exploit us.
By no mean should we turn uBlock Origin off since PRIVACY ISN'T NEGOTIABLE.