If there was a way to run SUPER MEGA AD BLOCKER on this website I fucking would
“Please oh please open up your computer to a porn virus! If you don’t you’re evil!”
Freeloader Comin’ through!
We didn’t start this war internet users have with ads - We might have moaned about banner ads, but it was only when they started making noises when we might be listening to music or a podcast or whatever, causing two sound sorces at once, that we started trying to block ads universally rather than just a specific type of ad (pop ups).
And since then ads have gotten worse - Actual malware rather than merely breaking one of the fundamental sins of web design - though shalt not autoplay anything with sound. And the more aggressive a website is with ‘please turn off adblock’ the less I trust it to bother to vet ads and advertisers to make sure they’re not installing malware.
Not to mention that the idea that avoiding ads is “freeloading” is hilariously backward. Advertisement is a transaction between the platform and the advertiser, the user has no obligation to provide the views/clicks the platform has promised. Using an adblocker isn’t freeloading in the same way that leaving the room to get a snack during a commercial break isn’t cheating the tv network.
Ok y’all, I work as a web developer and I’m here to tell you that you are 100% right and that it’s shit. SO I’m going to tell you how to get around websites that block you from using their website if you’re using an adblocker.
Every website uses a language called JavaScript; long story short it’s a website language that allows developers to do the crazy shit you see on websites. Now the easiest thing to do is to disable JavaScript to stop them from knowing you have an adblocker:
Oh no! I’m blocked from viewing the website. It would be a terrible shame if I were able to right click and select the “inspect” feature
Click the three dots in the top right and open the “Settings” Menu
And then scrolled down to “Debugger” and checked the “Disable Javascript Option”
literally most things that people write off as just ‘textures’ to use in graphics are stolen & unsourced material created by artists or photographers NOT meant to be used as elements in projects without royalty payments. you can say ‘it’s just random tumblr posts they don’t care’ but you wouldn’t want someone to take your work and edit into their work so they can be praised for their beautiful style and creativity even if they just post it on social media w/o profit, would you?? so maybe if you browse pinterest or google images for pictures without finding the original source, you’re using images that you’re not allowed to use without realizing it.
you see it on here a lot especially in (i won’t link anything but i’m sure you know what i mean) those album track ‘aesthetics’ posts, au ‘aesthetic’ posts (ie where people use ‘pinterest-y’ images to kinda craft a visual au), and even just rather typical graphics that have a lot of ‘texture’ elements. and texture packs too!! that’s often where the problem starts; people just collect images (often literal art), compile them in a folder w/o sources, then insist no one can repost those images w/o crediting the person who compiled them. what???
SO may i suggest some of my fave places you can get FREE, ROYALTY-FREE elements that are totally legal to use
prints available here, an addition to my growing GO print roster haha.. i’ll be at rose city comic con in portland with this and a few other pieces on 9/13!
I’m posting the links here because the
link keeps on a loop with adfly
IF YOU DRAW OR DESIGN Instead of PHOTOSHOP, try GIMP Instead
of LIGHTROOM, try PAINT.DOT.NET Instead of ILLUSTRATOR, try
INKSCAPE Instead of INDESIGN, try CANVA or SCRIBUS
IF YOU DO STUFF THAT REQUIRES THESE
OTHER PROGRAMS Instead of AUDITION, try AUDACITY Instead of ACROBAT PRO, try FOXIT
READER or PDF ESCAPE Instead of INCOPY, try LOVING YOURSELF
AND USING LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE (WHO USES THIS???)
IF YOU NEED STOCK PHOTOS OR FONTS Instead of ADOBE STOCK, try PEXELS,
UNSPLASH, or PIXABAY Instead of ADOBE PHONTS, try GOOGLE FONTS or
DAFONT
IF YOU DRAW OR DESIGN Instead of PHOTOSHOP, try FIREALPACA , SAI , SKETCHBOOK or KRITA (these latter two are great!) Instead of LIGHTROOM, try PHOTOSCAPE
This ADHD and Autism Venn Diagram was requested even more highly than the ADHD and PTSD diagram, and I finally got round to making it…
I’m so glad this helped!! If anyone has anything else like this that they’d like me to make, then send an ask! I might not be able to help, but I’d like to try!
And yeah, I do have a Paypal; you’re so sweet! I’ll link it here.
[Image 1 ID: A venn diagram by @tfw-adhd with a dark brown left circle labeled ‘ADHD’ and a tan right circle labeled ‘Autism’.
ADHD: Impulsivity, short attention span, poor working memory, poor planning skills, time blindness, depression when understimulated, little sense of danger, making careless mistakes, no motivation for tasks you are not interested in.
Autism: Taking things very literally, having the same routine and getting anxious if it changes, being uncomfortable with making eye contact with others, liking to carefully plan things before they happen, not understanding social “rules”, noticing small details that others do not, getting upset when someone touches you, getting very anxious about social situations.
Overlapping area: Sensory issues, hyperfixations, stimming, auditory processing disorder, talking a lot, finding it hard to make friends, emotional dysregulation, interrupting conversations, rejection sensitive, lack of object permanence, executive dysfunction, sleep problems.
/End ID]
[Image 2 ID: Screenshot of @gl44zed‘s reply: “Thank you so much you don’t know how much I needed this. Do you have a PayPal so we can send you money for your work?”
