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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] FiskFisk33 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I want to search for recipes that are not blog posts

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] FiskFisk33 2 points 1 year ago

oh, cool, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is amazing. Thanks for that. Usually when I’m looking up a recipe I don’t want to scroll for miles about the history of the recipe, so this solves that nicely.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Often you'll find a 'print recipe' button somewhere near the top of the page. Click on that, it'll take you to what you're looking for without all of the crap nobody cares about.

[–] Chocrates 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I despise that every fucking recipe is a blog post. I don't care that little Becky loved this soup, I just want to know how much salt I should add.

[–] Trofont 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% what I do. Print to pdf and then never go to the site, because they're so over loaded with ads and pictures that will load and cause the page to bounce around.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox+AdNauseam

Watching the numbers on each page go up is entertainment enough. Best part is that it stops the ad popping in the background so your page rarely jumps

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How’s that compare with Ublock.origin?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

AdNauseam integrates with UBO, so you'd get both. Basically, it virtualizes clicks on ads so ad sellers get charged for the click but it's all hidden in the background from you.

That said, I kinda have mixed feelings about it. Ad clicks will help support sites you like, so even if you're blocking ads you're still getting 'served' and 'interacting' with them. On the other hand, it tells sites 'hey all these ads you're serving aren't making your website shitty and unusable (but they generally are) so keep it up! And it tells ad agencies and the industry 'oh yeah we sure love clicking ads keep slapping them in my face at every corner'. And if ad buyers are realizing their clicks are all ghost clicks, they'll stop buying ad space. Which just means shittier lowest common denominator ads in more places.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's different from the technical end but it works by clicking the ads and filling them with junk to cost. It essentially removes the ad for you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

bbcgoodfood.com is another good one I check often

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've had good luck with whisk.com.