Some places already ban physical ads. There are better sources than these but this is what I found so far:

• https://medium.com/@Kyoto_After_Tokyo/kyoto-banned-outdoor-ads-what-it-gained-was-deeper-than-silence-c1ba8d8b40eb

• https://blog.wego.com/what-happens-when-a-megacity-bans-ads/

Digital ads would be harder to get rid of. At the individual level, it’s relatively easy to disable an adblocker if something breaks. That’s harder to do if you block it city wide.

A PSA campaign might work better to get people to turn on adblockers

It would be best to ask on [email protected]

Lemmy in general

Lemmy software doesn’t block VPNs, this is done by individual instances as a way to handle bots / attacks.

Your instance blocks VPN & Tor users: https://lemmy.world/post/11967676

I should have included the tag, I made it up 😄

Fun fact, the ketchup chips in Canada were inspired by these

/s

most depictions of magic carpet flights have the carpet move very erratically because they have a mind of their own

That might be a good thing. If you fall, the carpet will rush down to catch you

Thank you for taking care of that, and sorry for the delay on my end! I’ve had a busy week, and I’ve been slowly going through the DMs/replies in my queue

UBlock helps to stop that script.

Would that be by default, or do I need to enable something specific

The “AI” help boils down to humans asking it to find patterns?

“Initiatives like developer verification, mandatory pre-review checks, and testing requirements have raised the bar for the Google Play ecosystem, significantly reducing the paths for bad actors to enter,” the company’s blog post explained, adding that its “AI-powered, multi-layer protections” have been “discouraging bad actors from publishing malicious apps.”

Google noted it now runs over 10,000 safety checks on every app it publishes and continues to recheck apps after publication. The company has also integrated its latest generative AI models into the app review process, which has helped human reviewers find more complex malicious patterns faster. Google said it plans to increase its AI investments in 2026 to stay ahead of emerging

Have you been paying for your dish subscription?

Hi sorry for the delay, are you still having this problem?

Could you try on one of the other frontends? If you are able to downvote on those pages but not on the main interface, that might help narrow the problem down:

https://photon.piefed.ca/ https://blorp.piefed.ca/

I think they meant the physical device

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en

They can be a bit pricy if you’re young and on a budget.

If you’re trying to read on your phone only, I’d recommend these apps:

• Readest: The app is on both mobile and desktop, it’s a nice experience, and it’s free/ open source. I found it to be stable but I’ve seen comments about bugs: https://github.com/readest/readest
• Moon Reader: It’s paid / proprietary, but well known and customizable: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Moon%2B&hl=en-US

As for sourcing the files

• see if your library does any digital lending
• check out free sources like Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive

Some comments brought up a home server, but you don’t really need that if you’re starting out with the hobby and it’s just for yourself. That’s more for managing large libraries of books and access by many users.

Unfortunately a lot of parental controls aren’t that helpful, and they’re more of an afterthought

https://theconversation.com/parental-controls-on-childrens-tech-devices-are-out-of-touch-with-childs-play-257874

I agree with parenting in general though

I’d love it if platforms would implement a toggle to switch from infinite scroll to pagination

We currently aren’t running any Matrix servers

There is a Matrix chat for sh.itjust.works, but that’s a bit different: https://matrix.to/#/#sh.itjust.works:matrix.org

We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.

It sounds like they will be reminding their team not to do that and scrutinizing articles in the near future

I’ll take it 😌

Meh, I’d rather let this copypasta be forgotten. It turns cool points into “bad” ones while exaggerating the rest. For example, it’s COOL that this animal evolved specialized digestive organs to process a food in a biological niche that other animals can’t exploit. There’s great variety among animal brain shapes / textures, and having such a complex brain doesn’t guarantee that all humans are that “smart”. Other animals are also sedentary or sleep a lot (sloths, cats) and this is seen as being efficient. Other animals also do things that are pretty gross when viewed through a human lens.

On top of all that, it feels like justification for everything humans are doing to endanger the population.

Nice username 😄

You could also post in existing communities, since the user base is smaller here

[email protected] and similar communities?