Woe, Gay Be Upon Ye

Which one of yall ordered a hot cup of pain because its done and so am i

[thisonesforkawoshin]

hey guys! i just wanted to say, im probably not going to be active, like, at all. signing off!

[sporesgalaxy]

[katabasiss]

do you guys think jesus, the son of a carpenter, smelt the wood of the cross & temporarily thought of home

[rylandsgrace]

This is killing me

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

https://mamot.fr/@setthemfree/106014810050613790

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

[sugar-and-spite]

For alternatives.

Firefox remains best in show in the category of “browsers that won’t do this bullshit.” It’s got a long, long history of trust, a sizable userbase, and a decent amount of privacy built in, with more extensions and customization options than you’ll ever need. However, note that it can sometimes perform slowly, especially with a lot of tabs open.

Opera is a slightly lesser-known browser, and my personal main browser for day-to-day use. It has a built-in VPN (though this can be slow at times), adblocker, and anti-tracking tools, with more available via extensions. Opera’s userbase is slightly smaller, so overall less extensions are available than Firefox, and (in my experience) it generally needs a few settings to be tweaked on first startup to make it comfortable to use (notably, the keyboard shortcuts are different from chrome/firefox).

DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that also has (at least) a mobile browser (for Android devices). I’m not honestly sure if they have a desktop or Apple version, but the mobile browser provides many similar safety features to Opera. I find Opera more convenient for casual browsing, but if you’re very conscious of online security, DuckDuckGo might be the way to go.

Microsoft Edge exists. Don’t use it.

Please do yourself a favor and stop using Chrome!

[bamboozled-bumblefuck]

Ecosia isn’t Chrome based, right? that’s what ive been using, for the trees, and it says it doesn’t save your history but i wanted to check

[notimetosayhellogoodbye]

I’m afraid so. And based on many other Chrome based browser scandals, I don’t trust it.

[bamboozled-bumblefuck]

dammit. ill download firefox then :/ thanks for letting me know

edit: how do you actually download it

edit edit: wHY does it send me to GOOGLE, IMMEDIATELY upon downloading it????? like i have the app and it says “firefox browser” and it’s talking all about how secure it is etc but the little rainbow G icon is right next to the actual browser and theres a link right to Google on the firefox homepage how do i stop that

[satan-666s-stuff]

So from my understanding Firefox uses Google but it blocks all the trackers

[bamboozled-bumblefuck]

that makes sense! ty!! i ended up changing the default browser to duckduckgo anyway (and deleted google and amazon off of the browser options anyway) but i appreciate it!!! (im afraid this all becomes null and void with me using only gmail as all of my email accs but there’s not much i can really do anything about that. hopefully firefox will block gmail from seeing my searches through the gmail account i used to sign in :///)

[shelikesmysparkles]

I’d recommend Protonmail, as a substitute for gmail. It’s a Swiss based end-to-end encrypted email service that is expanding to Proton-calander and Proton-drive with their paid version. Their ProtonVPN also has a free version with limited locations. They also have apps for both android and apple.

To boost Firefox, I’d add-on-

Facebook Container- isolates your Facebook activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Facebook from tracking you outside of the Facebook website via third party cookies.

HTTPS Everywhere- Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.

Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers. Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger automatically discovers trackers based on their behavior.

Privacy Possum monkey wrenches common commercial tracking methods by reducing and falsifying the data gathered by tracking companies.

uBlock Origin is not an “ad blocker”, it’s a wide-spectrum content blocker with CPU and memory efficiency as a primary feature.

Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you carve out a separate box for each of your online lives – no more opening a different browser just to check your work email! Here is a quick video showing you how it works. Under the hood, it separates website storage into tab-specific Containers. Cookies downloaded by one Container are not available to other Containers. With the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension, you can…

Sign in to two different accounts on the same site. For example, you could sign in to work email and home email in two different Container tabs.

Keep different kinds of browsing far away from each other (for example, you might use one Container tab for managing your Checking Account and a different Container tab for searching for new songs by your favorite band)

Avoid leaving social-network footprints all over the web (for example, you could use a Container tab for signing in to a social network, and use a different tab for visiting online news sites, keeping your social identity separate from tracking scripts on news sites)

Enhancer for YouTube™-  Built to get the most out of YouTube, this extension comes packed with all sorts of features that allow you, among other things, to manage ads as you wish, control the playback speed and the volume level with the mouse wheel, automate repetitive tasks such as selecting the appropriate playback quality, configure dozens of keyboard shortcuts to control YouTube like a pro, and much more.

Decentraleyes- Protects you against tracking through “free”, centralized, content delivery.

Protects privacy by evading large delivery networks that claim to offer free services.

Complements regular blockers such as uBlock Origin (recommended), Adblock Plus, et al.

Works directly out of the box; absolutely no prior configuration required.

Bitwarden- A secure and free password manager for all of your devices. Bitwarden is the easiest and safest way to store all of your logins and passwords while conveniently keeping them synced between all of your devices.

Several of these also have companion versions in Firefox mobile.

If you are interested in other trustworthy add-ons, this icon shows that the add-on is an editorially curated extension that meet the highest standards of security, functionality, and user experience. Firefox staff, along with community participation, selects each extension and manually reviews them for security and policy compliance before they receive Recommended status.

Good luck! @ or message me if you need anything else.

Edit: I’d make a firefox account so you can log in and sync tabs/bookmarks across devices.

[bamboozled-bumblefuck]

holy shit this is insane thank you so much!!!

[firespirited]

Long post but very useful addons. Press j to skip

[weldingmaskon]

For anyone not comfortable with Mozilla, there’s a fork of Firefox: LibreWolf.

[bigredm38-4]

Stay away from duckduckgo, they’ve publicly declared that they are goose-stepping down the “don’t be evil” path of google.

[gettothedancing]

Remember, if it’s based on Chrome’s software, it’s still a liability.

[itsapmseymour]

Caramelldansen turns 20 this year and frankly I am not prepared for that.

[itsapmseymour]

[roseverdict]

So it’s settled? When November 2 rolls around, we’re all laying facedown and blasting Caramelldansen?

[kazooyah]

no we’re gonna put our big boy pants on and do the goddamn caramelldansen dance for once in our lives

[xxtc-96xx]

Well I know what I’ll have to reblog on the 2nd

[lagonegirl]

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

if ur dealing to the people on the left you’d just say “$45 a gram” and theyd be like “yeah bro sure dude i gotchu thats legitness ur the man” but the ppl on the right u gotta finesse like “my normal price is $15 a g but this stuff is called Cosmic Throat Cum Squirt Haze so the lowest i can go is $50″ and theyd b like “wow… so cultured… i cant wait to smoke this out of my native american themed bong…”

[team-sleeps]

: 0 !!!

[magicklore]

Do y'all not remember the russian spies that plagued tumblr??

[professor-doc-emeritus]

this site has been on a noticeable decline from the moment they expunged the russian chaos agents

[aberrantemotion]

Tumblr had what

[surprisebitch]

[40ouncesandamule]

I like how the consensus on this site was that despite being a constant dumpster fire of failure, the one thing the admins were able to successfully figure out was an international espionage ring orchestrated from the kremlin as opposed to thinking maybe, just maybe, they banned a bunch of funny black people because hillary ate shit in 2016

[soothsaying]

uhhhhh no this really happened and it was not a conspiracy to ban a bunch of funny black people, unless you mean the fake black people the troll accounts posed (source: npr) as 

additional sources: https://www.wired.com/story/tumblr-russia-trolls-propaganda/  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/24/tumblr-says-russia-used-it-for-fake-news-during-2016-election

[trueconfessionsofacurvygirl]

It’s really fucking weird that people are pretending this didn’t happen.

I can specifically speak about lagonegirl as I was a follower. They never spoke to their followers. Their posts all had a similar format to Vox posts at the time. They would leave a written funny comment on their posts turns out those were taken from Twitter users and written out like it was their own words. The many popular Black tumblr users rebloged the posts and added more funny comments and post would get widely shared.

I’m starting to wonder if this is a new Russian scam. Get people to belief it didn’t happen so they can do it again.

[mikkeneko]

having sorted through the replies on this post, there are two camps:

1. people saying yes, russian psyops on social media accounts were totally a thing. they copied real content (which could be traced back to their original sources) but edited and modified in ways that helped them shape the conversation in the direction that served their purpose.  source: here are 5 sources documenting it

2. people saying no, russian psyops was never a thing.  uhhhh, duh! pfff, you believed that? cringe. OBVIOUSly fake. 

[thirtyknives]

I gotta add they were on *all* the damn socials, it’s just that Tumblr hoards its old junk whereas all the others only want new content front and centre. If we didn’t sift through our ashes so much we’d have forgotten, too.

[jellyfishdirigible]

Oh yeah I forgot to add before this fell out of the queue, obviously no one thinks staff figured that out on their own. It was a massive international intelligence operation that also included facebook, reddit, twitter, instagram, youtube, buzzfeed somehow, and teams of competent professional intelligence analysts.

Afterwards the inquiry concluded that the russian trolls (of whom several were in fact indicted) specifically targeted Black voters to divide and undermine their vote

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49987657

Russian trolls' chief target was 'black US voters' in 2016

A Senate intelligence report says no other group was more targeted in the 2016 election.

They piggybacked on BLM

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/russian-trolls-went-attack-during-key-election-moments-n827176

Russian Twitter trolls exploited key election moments

Russian trolls chose targeted moments during the presidential election to infiltrate and divide the online conversations of millions of Amer

And they focused on Black Americans as prospective assets

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/17/tech/russia-2016-election-social-media-report/index.html

Russians sought to recruit 'assets' through social media, Senate told

The Senate Intelligence Committee is set to release two reports on Monday detailing the breadth of the Russian social media campaign to sow

op was purpose-designed to alienate and disenfranchise Black Americans, “a bunch of funny black people” try a bunch of digital blackface, just a wholeass online minstrel show

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[theauthor27]

[lux-astralis]

[animentality]

[fishandshesmygills]

my brother started calling our cat "doobie brother" which he then lengthened to "dubious brother" and has since morphed into "brother dubious" like he's some sort of fucked up little monk

[fishandshesmygills]

brother dubious

[bashonosei]

[evangelionheritageposts]

Certified Evangelion heritage post.

[guerrillatech]

[jv]

This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax:

"Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?"

Yeah, I remember. And I'm sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers.

[alarajrogers]

No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that's a very good thing.

[oligopspispopd-deactivated20221]

see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles

[cop-disliker69]

International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.

[silly-jellyghoty]

Fixing issues before they develop into actual disasters is such an underappreciated thing it hurts at all levels.

We don't talk about acid rain because there isn't any more acid rain because when acid rain started happening and we learned that the cause was mainly sulphur oxide and carbon monooxide from car exhausts, countries all over the world made it a law that car companies had to produce cars that produced less exhaust with better effectivenes (burning the fuel all the way to CO2 instead of the halfassed CO) and oil rafineries to remove the sulphur from the gasoline in the first place.

We don't talk about computers crashing because of the turn of the century, because thousands of programmers worked very hard to write updates and patches for Every Single Program humanity as a whole used back in 1999 and then somehow managed to failtest, distribute, and update every single device and system, be it an online or offline one before the midnight of the 1st january of 2000.

On a much smaller scale, no one ever commenta or notices cleaners and housekeepers doing their job - be it at home or at whole buildings - because they always make sure that there's nothing to notice. But don't be fooled - at any point of your life you are one week of them not doing away from swimming in trash and filth with nothing to eat and nothing clean to wear. Only then you would notice.

Now it's time to do that thing again and make sure that we don't kill our whole planetary ecosystem within the next century.

[silver-tongues-blog]

[hispanicdisorder]

[modogoblin]

why must we play god

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Artistic representation of how the lemon was invented in the first place

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

"citrus are whores" is not something i expected to see on the hellsite today

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I’m not wrong though they are EASILY the sluttiest fruits. You don’t see Rosales pulling this shit. I mean yeah apples will breed weird new apples but nothing fucks around like citrus.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#so we’re slutshaming the fruits now? 

Tags that look homophobic without context

[redshiftsinger]

I MEAN technically squashes are fruits and they are also EXTREMELY SLUTTY.

[ultfreakme]

The lemon and lime fanfic warnings ARE based on scientific fact.

[the-haiku-bot]

The lemon and lime

fanfic warnings ARE based on

scientific fact.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[marshmallow-gem]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[phroge777]

it's ethical

[nyancrimew]

you can steal everything you want forever

[panduus]

[sic-semper-hominibus]

found the artist's name in the notes and went looking because this slaps (it's called A Place Where I'll Dance) and its not even their best song. check this shit out:

[were--ralph]

WHEN MY WEREWOLF BOYFRIEND CATCHES WHOEVER ON ST*FF IS TARGETING ME

[zwoelffarben]

your WHAT

[were--ralph]

My

Werewolf Boyfriend

[little-cherry-berry]

your fucking WHAT??

[were--ralph]

My 

[leatherrice]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

guys will try to school you on colors as if THEY were the gatherers

[mechagrrl]

What color is this?

[daughter-of-sapph0]

pussy

[mechagrrl]

[absurdistscribbler]

[bananonbinary]

jokes that will literally never not be funny to me:

saying “speedrun strats” every time you fuck up

saying “first try” when you’ve tried the thing like 15 times, minimum

[twilight-blaze]

saying “skill issue” when something is 100% outside of anyone’s control