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  • [–] 95 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Oh look, my grandparents PC circa 2005

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    I was in the hospital in 2015 and was talking to the person next to me. He realised I was in IT and as he turned his laptop to me he's like I can't seem to view websites anymore with toolbars up the wazoo. It was already a throwback even at that time

    Edit: wording

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    In ~2005 I was at a job that provided tech support to local hospitals. That's the first time I saw this image and ... It didn't strike me as too unrealistic.

    At that job I once spent seventeen minutes on the phone trying to help a nurse find the semicolon on her keyboard.

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  • [–] 37 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Banzai Buddy!

    My neighbor intentionally installed that shit on his family PC when we were like 15.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    A lot of people installed this shit. Because they’re visiting fuckmybeaniebabies.net and a popup is like “Install our spam bar for a chance to win herpes!” And they happily click ok.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    A lot of people still do that, but it's "Do you want your phone/computer to constantly nag you with browser notifications about our spam?" and they click "Yes!"

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Ugh. Yeah, my mom intentionally allows push notifications from Amazon, Temu, tons of fast food chains, and a bunch of other sources on her phone. It goes off like every thirty seconds.

    I don't get push notifications unless it's a text or a 2FA email. And for that matter, I don't understand how people get so many emails or, if they start to, why they don't unsubscribe from or block all the spam. I get an average of maybe 3 emails a week on my personal accounts.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I've seen this toolbar hell before. I've had to clean many a pc of this toolbar hell before.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'd always have to do this crap to our old Sony VAIO desktop (that was mine, until I went to college and my mom took it over). Then my mom would get mad that I "messed up the computer" because I'd delete this crap and apparently she used it?

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