• altphoto@lemmy.today
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        15 minutes ago

        Guess how many strawberries with 5 R’s I’m holding on my left hand while riding a pterosaur?

        What a fun and imaginative scenario! Riding a pterosaur and holding strawberries (with 5 R’s!) in your left hand—now that’s a scene straight out of a fantastical adventure.

        Let me guess… You’re holding fouRRRRR strawberries! (That’s four with five R’s, for extra emphasis and strawberry power.)

        If I’m wrong, maybe you can give me a clue—or tell me if the pterosaur is jealous of your fruity snack! 🍓🦖

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    6 hours ago

    non, you wait for the donwload to start automatically, if not, update all your adblocks and try the button with no url when you hover over it

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    You drag the button. If it takes with it more than just a button, it is an ad.

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    Millennial here. The true answer is None Of The Above. The actual download button is just a blue link somewhere on the page, probably among all of the torrent info.

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      Gen Z here. I usually look for the magnet link to copy paste into my torrent client. I think that bypasses the download button problem.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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        I might be biased against that from the ages of dialup, where torrenting almost always ended up failing if you also seeded, but you felt guilty if you leeched.

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      This is the correct answer. It might also be the filename shown. If you can put your cursor over that it might become underlined. All big Download buttons are not to be trusted.

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        It always irked me back in the day when cnet was still a useful source because they modeled their buttons that way. Then they eventually became the garbage the site appeared to be at first glance.

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      Came here to say this. Closest onscreen would probably be the grey “Download or Watch” button not trying to get your attention in any way.

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      1 day ago

      The file name looks like a link, it’s at least a slightly different color than the other text.

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    Stop. Install your favorite ad blocker, like ublock origin. Refresh.

    Work smarter not harder

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      Why was it ever disabled to start with?

      Every time a dodgy site has asked me to disable it, it still doesn’t work, and now you have a bunch of tracking cookies and has to look at ads for other porn sites.

      • kippinitreal@lemmy.world
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        No lie, this is how I learnt keyboard hotkeys as a kid. I’d click middle mouse to open a link on the site in a new tab, with my hand ready to go on Ctrl + W. The nanosecond I detected a fake site, I’d closer that sucker and move onto the next link.

        Oh boy did I bring a lot of viruses on my computer in the process in the name of efficiency & greed (& hefty amount of stupidity).

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      About 2 years ago I spent most of a Christmas sorting out my MIL’s new laptop, uninstalling junk and whatnot, and I tossed ublock origin on there. A few days ago I came back to sort out the Realtek audio drivers which uninstalled themselves via Windows Update. I find she has an entirely different laptop now, branded as"Acemagic" but through the magic of forced Microsoft Sign-in ublock origin synced to Edge on this new laptop, and there was no crapware installed despite the laptop clearly being in use for about 6 months already!

      TL;DR install ublock origin on your parents computers to save yourself some trouble down the line

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      23 hours ago

      If you didn’t give your parents computer, digital syphilis are you really a millennial?

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      Even with uBlock Origin, some pirate sites still have this problem because the ads either are not typical ad elements or are not in the block list. Very common with sites that host pirated android apps, in my experience.

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          Now that you say it, I haven’t seen a popup in years. They feel like a distant nightmare now.

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    In the very top right of the browser window, there should be a little ‘X’ button. That’s the one you wanna click.