The amount of times I’ve seen a ‘the best <whatever>’ inorganically shoehorned into articles lately as search engine bait is fucking infuriating.

“Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions…”

I don’t think that is the point here.

Seconding this experience with Mint 21.3, although on a laptop here. I just wanted something that works without much fucking about, and it delivers.

Yep, I only noticed because I got prompted to update when I ran it today!

Browsing YouTube while logged out is 1,000 times worse.

Kinda surprised the Russians have any to spare.

It’s literally in the text of the article. I’m using both ublock origin and a pihole here.

This is an actual interesting article that they just ruined with SEO spam links to ‘the best <whatever>’ all over it. Sigh.

Hi everyone, another Chicagolander here, this time from the western suburbs. I just moved over here from kbin.social, which has been broken quite a lot lately. Prior to that I was on reddit for an embarrassingly long time, bailing on it when the shit hit the fan last summer.

I’m also on Mastodon where I post very infrequently - I prefer the link aggregator with comments style services such as Lemmy over microblog things.

I’m a middle-aged immigrant dude who is into a lot of nerd shit like scifi, books, video games, electric vehicles, as well as photography and motorcycles. I also ride bicycles for fun and exercise when the weather doesn’t suck.