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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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Remember when Google introduced text-only ads to replace flashing animated banners and pop-up ads popular at the time? I didn't mind those and I didn't need an adblocker.

Nowadays YouTube is the primary reason I have to use an adblocker. It is literally unusable with all the ads.

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[–] grandel@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Woah never thought you'd get so many downvotes on frickin lemmy for pointing out the use of surveilance software is not requied.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They built it this way on purpose, hostile takeover, then let the shit happen. Like the other guy posted, the quality or source of the ad doesn't matter, could go straight to a scam site, so fuck them. Block anything you don't want. Ads are about 10-12% of all my network traffic according to pihole reports. That's entirely too much.

And sure you don't have to use YouTube, but where else are you going to go that has more hours of video than you've got days left on this planet? The destroyed other video sites to create the shithole that many people depend on. Don't act like you don't use it.

Also, even if you're using revanced or the tv one that blocks ads, the content is STILL YouTube, so you're still "using YouTube" just a roundabout way. I have revanced on my phone and the one for the tv, s something. Both work amazing. But it's still YouTube.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it got hot for a moment