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Re: Take Better Screenshots

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Post by anchpop »

bipson wrote: post #14
bauerd wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the alternative?

Learning to describe your problem. Specific knowledge aside, I am always astonished that people not being able to coherently read and write is getting worse. That's something YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook don't teach I guess?

But twitter and texting do teach it, and those are both very popular. Even reddit is mainstream now. People probably read more now than at any other point in history.

I'm very skeptical that the average reading and writing ability has decreased in the last 50 years

Re: Take Better Screenshots

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Post by c22 »

progval wrote: post #16
dredmorbius wrote: post #9

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That's, sadly, the Web these days. Even with adblockers, I see the "advertisement" lines remaining in articles. Often every paragraph or two.

With Javascript disabled, I don't see them at all

More and more often with JavaScript disabled I don't see anything at all!

Re: Take Better Screenshots

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Post by TacticalTable »

bdcravens wrote: post #45
greggman2 wrote: post #26

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I turned off the default Username in menu bar on MacOS so I had one less thing to take off my screenshots.

Tangential to screenshots, but when doing presentations, I've taken to creating a second user on my machine to prevent notifications, etc I'd rather not show.

MacOS seems to turn on Do Not Disturb when plugged into unusual external displays or sharing my screen online, which has always been a big help.

Re: Take Better Screenshots

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Post by egdod »

johannes1234321 wrote: post #49
egdod wrote: post #33

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Why would you even try to read something on the internet without an ad blocker?

Since some people agree to the fundamental "deal" that one receives "free" content for seeing add as well and configure an ad blocker more granular (and maybe the best strategy were that sites with abusive amounts/forms of ads simply lose visitors and attention)

When did I sign that contract?

Re: Take Better Screenshots

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Post by devinplatt »

pjc50 wrote: post #15

The downside of uncropped screenshots is information leakage from e.g. your bookmarks, open tabs, unrelated emails, IM popups etc. Another commentator mentioned annotated screenshots, and now I'm wondering about the "semantic screenshot"; imagine getting a copy of someone's desktop frozen in time with the ability to re-stack windows, check what's currently available on menus, etc.

My favorite example is that time Kanye shared a screenshot on Twitter and didn't crop out his Pirate Bay tabs for pirating Deadmau5's music software, Serum.

https://twitter.com/deadmau5/status/704876167157907456?s=20

Re: Take Better Screenshots

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Post by johannes1234321 »

egdod wrote: post #54
johannes1234321 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since some people agree to the fundamental "deal" that one receives "free" content for seeing add as well and configure an ad blocker more granular (and maybe the best strategy were that sites with abusive amounts/forms of ads simply lose visitors and attention)

When did I sign that contract?

That response tells that you didn't "sign" that. I only have reasons why some don't or limit use of ad blockers. If you have other values I won't try to convince you.

Re: Take Better Screenshots

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Post by mook »

crispyporkbites wrote: post #42

You know what would be helpful? A button in the web browser that the user can click, which creates a full page screenshot and dump of a bunch of helpful data points for debugging (e.g. URL, cookies, history, console logs, network requsets, assets, RAM use, IP address, user agent etc etc.) Basically a neat way to export a pseudo-stack trace from the application environment with screenshot and all potentially useful in…

Firefox at least does the screenshot part.

https://screenshots.firefox.com/

Re: Take Better Screenshots

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Post by exikyut »

penagwin wrote: post #43
exikyut wrote: post #36

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With /etc/hosts blocking, I still see them, and I like it. It's like a TV that's gone to ads and then glitches out and the show comes straight back on.

That's what Hulu is like with ublock. It goes to show "ads" but just shows a blank screen, and the countdown goes from 30 seconds to 0 instantly.

:D
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