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superfes , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

I love how you could literally be trying to give a company money and they still want more…

Maeve ,

And act like they’re doing youthe favor, to allow you to politely hand them your hard-earned peasant pennies.

frezik ,

They don’t want some of the money. They want all of the money.

leaky_shower_thought , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

the secret sauce is in the double dip.

possiblylinux127 , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

What? Why is this this a think.

Anyway use ublock origin with updated block lists and this likely won’t happen.

MonkderZweite , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

They didn’t understand what an adblocker is for? Their privacy vs. your privacy.

tygerprints , to lemmyshitpost in Dude almost lost his life

He sounds more like DomSadoMasochist - not there's anything wrong with it! I know some guys are into the domination scene, but when it gets this angry and scary I'm not sure where the line exists between funtime fantasy and rape anymore.

FartsWithAnAccent , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace
@FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social avatar

Sorry, best I can do is never visit your shitty website again. Guess I'll order fried chicken from somewhere else, or, better yet, make a superior version at home!

cyberpunk007 ,

I just close these types of sites and do something different out of spite.

Maeve ,

Out of more love for myself, than greedy megacorporations.

Demonmariner , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

The ad blocker fight is getting really strange. I don’t use a blocker, but this morning I couldn’t read an article on google news without disabling my ad blocker which I don’t have.

Vash63 ,

Maybe your browser is blocking tracking or other cookies that adblockers also target.

Demonmariner ,

It’s not on a browser as such. I use the Google News app on my phone. I can’t believe it would block anything at all.

droans ,

The most common one I’ve seen on Google News uses DNS checking, too. If it can’t resolve an ad domain, it assumes you’re using an ad blocker.

ConstipatedWatson , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

Well, I’m sure you can buy delicious fried chicken elsewhere at a local joint (those people won’t block your ads)!

moon , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

Nice, they’re worried about losing ad money and analytics over losing more money by selling what their whole business is about.

Showroom7561 , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

Are they making money selling food or selling ad spots? Stupid businesses don’t deserve to stay in business.

Daxtron2 ,

Soda is a big money maker actually

benhum ,

They are tracking you so they can sell you more chicken. Remarketing.

eltrain123 ,

So they can sell your browsing habits to other advertising firms and, ultimately, other manufacturers or service providers… so they can badger you with more targeted ads…

Hairyblue , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace
@Hairyblue@kbin.social avatar

Honestly, does anyone ever read any pop up ad? I immediately have the emotion of hate that there is some annoying window blocking what I am trying to to read. They are lucky I just tune out what the hated window is telling me.

We should elect government people who would regulate the ads on everything. Ads can't pop up. Ads can't auto play. Ad can't be bigger than this.

We are getting to the sucky part of capitalism. Ads on everything.

flicker ,

I always said if I was ever given supreme executive authority, I would outlaw ads and then immediately step down. It would be my one move, and the world would be better for it.

grue ,

I like how you didn’t limit it to online ads, so you’re talking about outlawing billboards etc. as well.

AeonFelis ,

You are allowed to put a sign on the business’ actual physical location - and that’s it.

01189998819991197253 ,
@01189998819991197253@infosec.pub avatar

But, then, how will I know about that product that I don’t need and will never buy, that is literally on every shelf in every store? (/s, in case that wasn’t obvious)

AeonFelis ,

We’ll transmit that information to you via Neuralink™.

pete_the_cat , (edited )

Do you really want a bunch of people who don’t know how the internet and general tech works, along with massive corporate interest, regulating ads?

Edit: I’m from the US where our law markers are generally old and/or incompetent.

Hairyblue ,
@Hairyblue@kbin.social avatar

Vote in younger people and vote in educated people. And yes government CAN work for us and do good things. You have to vote for people who would do that.

Did anyone see that Biden's bill gave more funds to the IRS. They hired more people to help us, and go after the rich tax cheats, and are making a free government online filing system. Also the TurboTax company are complaining about it...and the rich, and Republicans.

I also would like government healthcare.

pete_the_cat ,

That doesn’t work in the US, we’ve tried. I work in IT and the amount of people that have zero clue about tech amazes me. It’s like 75-80% of the population has zero fucking clue about anything behind how the Internet works. For example, when Montana lawmakers said “We’re passing a law to ban TikTok.” but didn’t expand beyond that.

Hjalamanger ,
@Hjalamanger@feddit.nu avatar

EU has so far proven to know how the internet work and has been able to properly regulate it, so for my part yes. I would be delighted to see EU regulation on ads. But I don’t know anything about your government, maybe the really don’t know anything about tech but the EU government surely does.

Efwis ,

Right now better than half or government doesn’t know how to govern. They are too busy fighting among themselves and imploding thanks to MAGA.

pete_the_cat ,

I’m from the US, so our law markers are generally boomers that don’t know shit or people in my generation that still don’t know shit. Just watch the various public hearings of them questioning Mark Zuckerberg or Sundar Pinchai and shake your head with me.

ComradeBunnie ,
@ComradeBunnie@aussie.zone avatar

We draw stock internationally via FedEx, with usually at least one shipment arriving per day.

If I have a particularly urgent order for my customer, I will of course be tracking the incoming shipment.

Every. Damn. Time. I visit their website, I get halted in my usual manic pace by their stupid, slow to load pop up. I haven’t even been able to figure out how to block it, and usually don’t have time when I’m working to figure these things out.

Our company gives you so much money, FedEx - why do you have to be so difficult to work with as thanks?!

whereBeWaldo , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

What are they gonna do, not sell you chicken?

HEXN3T , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

More importantly, why are you eating KFC (unless you’re outside of the US where it’s actually edible)?

SkybreakerEngineer ,

KFC in Japan is actually worse somehow

zipzoopaboop ,

KFC in Canada is fucking atrocious. Aside from seeking out the worst staff possible, they have the worst quality food of any fast food places I’ve been to. Every 5 or so years I tend to forget just how bad it is, give them another chance, and something about the meal is inedible. Last time got a chicken sandwich and there was a chunk of the bun that was ultra hard and they forgot to put fucking fries in the bag, so I had a meal of a chicken patty of mostly batter and a mostly water diet Pepsi.

Skua ,

KFC in the UK is responsible for the only time I got chips (fries) while drunk on a night out that were so bad that I binned them

BruceTwarzen ,

I've been in a kfc in Germany and was blown away how people actually eat that shit. But at the same time, people also enjoy McDonald's and burger king, so maybe it's just me

corus_kt ,

To add on to the list of countries, Singapore KFC is the only fast food franchise where you can occasionally find overcooked blackish terrible tasting chicken. Macs, Popeyes, Arnolds, BK, Jollibee, etc - not even once (yet).

In my opinion even the Seattle KFC is better.

ConstipatedWatson ,

I’ve had the pleasure (?) To eat KFC in the US and in Europe. Besides the fact that it was junk food either way, the European version was just so much better.

I can believe that in its distant origins, KFC was actually tasty, but right now I’d sooner enjoy being punched in the stomach than eating there (a similar statement is true by replacing KFC with McDonald’s or Burger King or several other fast food chains, though for only these three I’ve tried both US and EU versions of these products)

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

KFC in Australia is pretty good. It’s no Popeyes, but it’s not bad.

I live in the USA now and while most KFCs I’ve been to here are pretty bad, there’s one KFC near me that’s strangely pretty decent. Chicken is always hot and fresh and they never make any mistakes with the order. I just wish they’d bring back the potato wedges since the fries are horrible.

The chicken sandwich at KFC is pretty decent too.

De_Narm , to mildlyinfuriating in Can't even buy chicken in peace

Ah, achieving optimal performance by letting them run more scripts and displaying more stuff.

kusuriya ,
@kusuriya@infosec.pub avatar

They never said what performance they are optimizing, I’m pretty sure it’s profit.

perishthethought ,

Yes, it’s for optimizing their experience, not ours. F that BS.

activ8r , to lemmyshitpost in Dude almost lost his life

That guy isn’t a Dom. He is just a sexually aggressive partner.
Real Doms require consent and that guy did not consent to being spoken to like that. Once boundaries have been established then that kinda talk can be hot as fuck, but based purely on this video alone the interviewer could have been anyone.

Overtly aggressive talk like that right out of the gate is not sexy, it’s just aggressive and can go very wrong if the person you are talking to is a sexual abuse victim (which, in my experience, does appear to be more common in members of the BDSM community, make of that what you will).

So anyone who looks at this video and sees no issue with his behaviour, take a step back and look at yourself. You don’t know what other people have been through and it’s incredibly important to make sure that people have a foundation of safety in any D/S communication, no matter how brief.

I can only hope that this wasn’t their first interaction and it was played up a bit for the camera. Otherwise this is simply unacceptable.

0x4E4F OP ,

(which, in my experience, does appear to be more common in members of the BDSM community, make of that what you will)

It’s what they know. If they were children when it happened, it shaped their view on sex for their entire life. There is no going back from that. You can surprese the feelings, but you really can’t experience sex in any other way… or, you can, but this happens very rarely (very few individuals). They even sometimes see love through that perspective.

Can’t blame them… it’s fucked up, but the best they can do is just move on and do whatever makes them happy, even if it is BDSM.

activ8r ,

I agree there is definitely some element of that for many people. I am a Domme myself and a lot of that is liking the control in the bedroom. I would never dream of talking to someone like that as a first interaction, but I have said much worse without blinking an eye under the right circumstances.
The opposite is true as well. I have found many Subs that like to be submissive within strict boundaries. At the end of the day it’s all about having control and that is defined on both sides, just in different ways.
I’m sure there are infinite more circumstances and thought processes as well.

Though I would like to highlight it’s not everyone. People are all different and there are many members of the BDSM community that haven’t experienced sexual abuse or any other kind of abuse. Just normal people that like to get freaky.

0x4E4F OP ,

I am a Domme myself and a lot of that is liking the control in the bedroom.

Yes, I do like control in the bedroom as well. I think I would be a domm if I was in D/S relationship, but it’s too late for that now. I got a family, a kid, my wife is (mostly) mainstream regarding sex (toys, spanking, anal - very rarely though, but that’s about it).

But I do wonder from time to time what my life would have been like if I accepted a few indecent proposals I’ve had over the years… broke up with my wife (we were still dating back then) and just went allong with that. I like having a family, no question there, but I would most definitely change my sex partner. One, not enough of it (sex), two, doesn’t really fulfill my desires, three, I have to masturbate a lot because I don’t get what I want in the bedroom.

But, things are what they are. I can only fanstaize now and speak about it with complete strangers, since this is not something that society thinks it’s normal (at least not where I live).

I would never dream of talking to someone like that as a first interaction, but I have said much worse without blinking an eye under the right circumstances.

Of course, goes without saying. I am a very gentle lover of I’m with someone I don’t know, but once you figure out what that person likes or dislikes, yeah, things can get very heated with me as well.

But, yeah, to be honest, if the other person wants to just “make love” (like spread your legs, hump for 10 minutes and get it over with, or if she wants it gentle all the time) yeah, that is a downer for me).

Just normal people that like to get freaky.

Maybe I’m one of those, lol 😂. Haven’t really thought about classifying what kind of a kinky person I am 😂. I have a few, some are related to BDSM, some no.

Catoblepas ,

I think it’s incredibly telling that very few people are considering it sexual harassment at all for a stranger to come up to someone on the street, shove a camera and microphone in their face, and start questioning them about their sexuality and sex life.

I’m sure it has nothing to do with the guy who started and continued talking about sex being a baby faced white guy and the other dude being a fit black guy.

MaoZedongers ,

Yes we should make being an on the ground reporter illegal they shouldn’t be allowed to ask people questions in public that’s crazy and he was forced to answer, he totally couldn’t just like ignore him and keep walking, what an invasion of privacy in public.

activ8r ,

I’m sure it has nothing to do with the guy who started and continued talking about sex being a baby faced white guy and the other dude being a fit black guy.

It’s not.

I think it’s incredibly telling that very few people are considering it sexual harassment at all for a stranger to come up to someone on the street, shove a camera and microphone in their face, and start questioning them about their sexuality and sex life.

Asking a question about someone’s sexuality isn’t sexual harassment. That’s a really weird thing to think.

Catoblepas ,

Since you apparently stopped watching as soon as he asked “are you gay,” the question he asked after that was “are you a top or a bottom?”

If for some reason you think that’s a more appropriate question to ask a stranger with a camera in their face than “do you use condoms?” or “have you ever tried BDSM?” then that is also a self report.

activ8r ,

I started writing an annoyed reply then realised that maybe you just have a radically different level of comfort than I do.
I’ll ask some of my friends who are not in the BDSM community for their opinion and I promise to have an honest re-evaluation of my thoughts on this, while taking your perspective to heart.
Please consider that the video does appear to be in a setting where people would be more likely to answer these questions happily. However I am basing that on a few assumptions, so maybe I am mistaken.

I would ask you to consider how your comments come across to others. I’m sure you are simply trying to establish reasonable boundaries for people of your comfort level, and I absolutely respect that, but your comments in response to me were very aggressive from the beginning.
And yes, I do see how my exact complaint with your comments may be related to your point about the video. I will take some time to give that consideration as well.

Neon ,

Asking a question about someone’s sexuality isn’t sexual harassment. That’s a really weird thing to think.

if i’m asking a friend in a quiet place it’s not. If i go up to a Stranger with a Camera, it is.

Neon ,

I’m sure it has nothing to do with the guy who started and continued talking about sex being a baby faced white guy and the other dude being a fit black guy.

Your Comment was absolutely great until you had to make it about skin color.

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