If you use browser extensions like Ghostery and AdNauseam it’ll click on blocked ads in the background, essentially giving Google fake info. After I started using extensions like that my survey questions have been all over the place, and I’ll answer them in a way that feels potentially accurate but is actually 100% false and irrelevant to me lol. So I get money, falsify their info, and block ads and trackers all at the same time, it’s perfect!

goddamn you 😂

I love that, Zabes has such cool girl energy lol

bitcrushed wilhelm scream

StartAllBack is good but I personally use and prefer Start11

Hmm interesting, it probably just needs to be updated

Probably just depends on how websites or apps handle it? I’m using Liftoff and that’s not a link for me

How is that Google’s fault?

If this is the case then what’s actually the point of it?

Nah not just one company. Reddit, Twitter, basically every social media, streaming services, every site adding stupid ads and auto playing videos, etc. It all adds up

I had that issue with Jerboa a lot so I switched to Liftoff, it’s much smoother!

The irony of this comment duplicating 😅 but yeah you’re right, there needs to be a lot of streamlining first

Lmao that’s great. Which one?

Untrue.

https://www.britannica.com/story/what-purposes-do-mosquitoes-serve-in-ecosystems

https://blog.nwf.org/2020/09/what-purpose-do-mosquitoes-serve/

https://www.mosquitoreviews.com/learn/mosquitoes-pollination

There’s different species that serve different purposes in the ecosystem.

https://www.lukerchocolate.com/en/innovation/meet-the-mosquito-behind-cocoa-tree-pollination/

https://www.nps.gov/articles/chocolate-midge.htm

All that being said, I can’t stand them lol

Ah okay that makes sense

Some people (myself included) tie the music they like to a part of their soul, and exposing that to someone who may treat it with complete disregard feels very vulnerable

Relevant Vsauce video https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ

how the hell did you and the person you’re replying to get your names to look like that

It does kinda feel like a porn site! Dirty and guilty almost, useful in the moment and then you realize you don’t really wanna spend any more time there than you have to haha. It makes me a little sad though because I feel like I’ve learned so many interesting things there, found so many niche hobbies and communities over the years. But like you said it’s just a website and at the end of the day it’s the humans who make the communities. Doesn’t matter who’s hosting it, I think we’ll always find a way to gather and share cool things with each other. I’m hopeful in that way for the future of the fediverse.

And yeah, finding something better to do with my time other than feeding my addiction to information via infinite scrolling is definitely a good thing. Data paralysis, info stasis, whatever you wanna call it, is numbing and and I think so many people use it as a crutch and vice because life is hard and inaction is easier.