this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
1123 points (97.9% liked)

Asklemmy

44157 readers
1528 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy πŸ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Cloak@lemmy.ml
mekhos@lemmy.ml
tmpod
14specks@lemmy.ml
1123
How many Lemmy users are non-technical background? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by techconsulnerd@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
667 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I think most all of us here on Lemmy are people with technical background. Most of my professional contacts remained using Reddit, Twitter and even excited when Threads launched.

If you are non-tech background, please comment and share what you do for life.

If you have tech background, upvote this to help promote this post so that we can find more non-tech users on Lemmy.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Aaoograha_hoa@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not technical at all, I work in Learning & Development at a company. I am always reading the comments and try to learn, but sometimes I have really no clue what you guys are talking about haha!

Yesterday someone was expleaning about adblocker and all the comments were like: "Yeah, who can live without it..." Well, me I guess? And I saw one that was highly recommended so I downloaded it, because why not try it out right? But apparently it's not for your phone. Or I didn't have the right app to support it on my phone.

I was thinking about asking it in the comments of the thread, but like you said: I think a lot of people here have a tech background and although everyone is very nice, I think the explanation might go over my head.

I don't want to give people the feeling I get when I'm trying to explain to my mom over the phone how she can e-mail a file on her computer. It can be very frustrating ;)

[–] u202307011927@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Then, please ask again and don't feel bad if someone fails to explain it to you :) If an explanation doesn't make sense it's likely that the one giving the explanation skipped a few steps that they think are common-knowledge, but those aren't.

[–] Aaoograha_hoa@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks, that's really kind :)

[–] james_tiberius@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use the Brave browser app because of its native adblocking.

[–] Aaoograha_hoa@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah thanks! I just switched to Firefox and Duckduckgo as search engine because all the comments on privacy here on Lemmy. I will check Brave out as well!

[–] james_tiberius@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

I'm really liking it. Actually started using it on both MacOS and Windows 11 (Gaming machine).

Setup sync for the phone, tablet, Macbook and PC, seems to be a solid option.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't know if you know, but you can install addons on Firefox for Android and some of the addons are adblockers.

[–] Aaoograha_hoa@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I did not know. Really kind of you to take the time to react on my comments and geving all these suggesties, cheers!

[–] azthec@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just fyi if you want to block ads on your phone you can go to your WIFI settings and set DNS to the AdGuard website or some similar service. Google is your friend for step by step guides

[–] Aaoograha_hoa@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did it! Or something like it, I learned about DNS and I installed the AdGuard app and begun my free trial period :) Thank you!

[–] azthec@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

You're welcome. You should also try without the app by setting it to something like dns.adguard-dns.com if the app is only a trial!

[–] Aaoograha_hoa@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I will start by searching what DNS is 😁

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also you can ask GPT here on Lemmy.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ChatGPT@lemmings.world Can you explain how adblocker works in simple terms? Are there any that work on a phone?

[–] ChatGPT@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sure! An adblocker is a piece of software that helps you to avoid unwanted ads when you're surfing the internet.

Here's how it basically works:

  1. List of ad sources: An adblocker keeps a list of sources of ads, like specific URLs or domains. This list is compiled by dedicated users and organizations who continuously update it.
  2. Blocking requests: Every time you visit a webpage, it sends out requests to fetch the content of the page. Each request URL is checked against the adblocker's list. If it matches an entry on the list, the adblocker stops the request, so the ad never reaches your browser.
  3. Page element hiding: In addition to blocking sources of ads, many adblockers can also hide elements of a webpage that are often used to display ads.

As for your second question, yes, there are adblockers that work on phones! Here are a few examples:

  1. AdGuard: available for iOS and Android, offers protection against ad tracking.
  2. Blokada: a free and open-source adblocker for Android.
  3. 1Blocker: a native adblocker for iOS.

Remember that some websites depend on ad revenue to operate, so it's good practice to disable your adblocker for sites that rely on ads but don't misuse them.

[–] Aaoograha_hoa@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you and thank you so much for the prompt as well, you are so kind! :)

[–] Acid@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think you should be afraid of asking for help, the ones that will offer help are usually going to be very patient.

[–] Aaoograha_hoa@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I think you are right. The comments on my comment have been nothing but helpfull and kind. It's really encouraging for a new Lemmy-user like me!