Mildly Infuriating

Here’s what’s behind that stupid ad

https://www.10news.com/news/fact-or-fiction/fact-or-fiction-online-ad-advises-people-to-wrap-doorknobs-in-foil-when-home-alone

It clearly implies there is some kind of safety benefit to it. But there is not.

Clicking on the ad leads to a lengthy slide show which eventually gets to the doorknob story.

All it says is aluminum foil can be used as an alternative to tape to cover doorknobs and hardware while painting.

It has nothing to do with safety and the inclusion of the phrase "when you're home alone" was only used as clickbait to make the ad seem more important.

I can remember around 1999-2000 if you clicked the wrong thing in IE you'd get 50 popup windows with ads for porn. At least that's behind us.

firefox and ublock origin will filter these right out

Sorry, I couldn't resist. And contrariwise to this pic I do agree with you, the web used to be better. Sure, ads were always a fucking annoyance, but they're reaching unbearable levels nowadays; a lot of people (like me) tend to not see it because of ad blockers, but once you turn them off? Eeeeew.

Remember when the web didn't suck?

Was there ever a time? In the late 80s and early 90s when it was mostly text only, there really wasn't a whole lot of content, and bandwidth sucked massively.

Once connection speeds improved, we got banner ads, popups, and noisy flash animations, all of which were vectors to install viruses.

Then came google, facebook and amazon, and monopolized the web.

Every era sucked in its own right. But I'm rather using it now where plenty of other educated people develop countermeasures that work out of the box, rather than having to fiddle around with browser configurations to block ads and malware myself.

TL;DR: Use adblock.

Remember when the web didn't suck?

No, I don't. Not since 2000, when I logged on from home for the first time. The majority of it has always sucked. Then the web can suddenly do new things... and finds new ways to suck.
It has, however, always had excellent little areas and corners.

Actually the ad matches the article. To me the ad is “fringe” and it has infested the “mainstream” (CNN).

So I think the idea of the tinfoil is that somebody grabbing the knob will make noise.

Therefore altering you.

You’d be better off with an alarm system and a deadbolt lock, though.

Why are they quoting a wolf? They didn't talk the last time I checked.

The only thing infecting me reading this is cringe.

this is supposed to be political, WHAT DO DOORKNOBS HAVE TO DO WITH POLITICS

I'm so frustrated with the internet right now. My wife started making Castile soap and I'm trying to find out if its some fu-fu-berry-bullshit or like an actual decent soap. Google is feeding me momfluencers (which range from 'fine but there is no accountability' to blatant grifters) and sites that are simply trying to sell this stuff. I'm going to try again with kagi tonight, but it's still very frustrating that I never know what to trust anymore. The bullshit is coming faster than I'm able to handle it

I wanna know who did the financing for the ad. A tinfoil company? Big ~~Tough~~ Softy Iron? A Goog guy worn off yoga?

(I aim to not say the fifthglyph for all days to promote [email protected])

me: what a silly article who could ever fall for this

also me: buys lots of tinfoil just in case