Ooh, thank you. I get they need to make money, but I hate this. It also won’t seem to turn off for me, I disabled the setting for direct match, deleted all my cookies and such, deleted the browser cache, and it’s still popping up and still redirecting through the affiliate link. Boo.
I’ve been able to replicate with DuckDuckGo, Startpage, and Ecosia. Interestingly enough while testing it out to see if that was the issue I’ve noticed that it isn’t happening every time, more like every other time. It redirects so fast it’s easy to miss, but I was able to screen record and grab a screenshot of the link it’s redirecting through. It’s the same regardless of search engine.
Report it to who? Vivaldi?
Vivaldi concerns me a little, because I keep catching them trying to replace web addresses for major retailers with what appear to be affiliate links. For example, if I start typing the address for Amazon (I know, shitty company, but it’s the first page that comes to mind) it will pop up an auto complete to click on. If I click it, I can see that I’m redirected to Amazon through what appears to be either an affiliate or a tracking link. However, if I type the address fully in the browser and don’t use auto complete it takes me straight to Amazon, no redirecting or strange links popping up first. They do not disclose that they are doing this anywhere that I have found and I think it’s shady as fuck. I don’t have any extensions installed and it happens on multiple devices (phone, laptop, PC) and only on Vivaldi, so it’s definitely the browser and not an untrustworthy extension or a compromised device.
I’m sure it would be, I’m more just referring to how HL Alyx was VR only and upset a lot of people
Everyone over here arguing about the price and I’m just remembering how we got Half Life Alyx when they released the Index and hoping they surprise release HL3 with the launch of the Steam Machine and have it compatible with the PC.
Wulfgar is an amazing name for a cat.
If a man tried to propose to me with a kitten I think my brain would short out from joy at getting a kitten and I wouldn’t hear another word out of his mouth. I’d totally miss the actual proposal and just be delighted at the kitten.
I got my first cat when he was a kitten and the moment I laid eyes on him my heart melted and my brain turned to scrambled eggs and 10 years later I still have the exact same reaction every single time I look at him.
Johnstown PA.
Was there a little over a decade ago on a beautiful summer Saturday afternoon. There was barely any traffic in the city, and we were the only people out walking around (we stopped by during travel to see the flood museum, it’s small but really interesting and slightly eerie, if you’re ever in the area go check it out, it’s worth the stop). I don’t think we really saw other people until we went over to the edge of town to another main tourist attraction (the incline plane railroad).
Although to be fair most of the rural East Coast (and I guess the US, but I’ve mostly traveled around the East Coast states) is like that. A bunch of sad towns that maybe were something once when their respective industries were booming, but now are sad, impoverished towns filled with once beautiful buildings that are falling apart.
Hmm, how about shavings of uranium garnishing a massive chocolate lava cake with whipped cream (the real stuff made from whipping cream, not the stuff from a can or the abomination that is cool whip)
After seeing all the memes about how many calories are in uranium, that would be fun to try.
I feel sad. When I think about what this country could have become…
Despite what the news says, on an individual level we are overwhelmingly a nation of friendly, hardworking people. Can you imagine how truly great we would be if we had been programmed to genuinely work together using our differences to make us strong instead of weak, if the concept of “liberty and justice for all” didn’t actually mean rich white people only, and if we had taken all the billions and trillions of dollars floating around and invested it into education, healthcare, infrastructure and useful technology for the people, and if we shared our wealth with other nations and invited people from other nations in to benefit from our strengths instead of starving our people and spending our wealth on things for the rich and powerful few as well as bombing school children in random countries we’re mad at today.
This country could be the best, happiest, most respected nation on earth where riches abound and we share the wealth with other nations simply because a happy, healthy, well educated workforce is going to be a far more productive workforce, but those in power are too fucking greedy and they can make their money keeping people poor, sick, and squabbling with those around them so they do that because this way they don’t have to share and risk anyone else being rich and happy too. They have their cake and they don’t even have to lose it, but they’re too immature to want the masses to also be able to enjoy cake.
On a good shift, yes, we have down time. My current job I am usually lucky and get time to sit around, but it’s not generally as relaxing as you’d think because at any time I need to be up and out the door within 90 seconds, so I’m always mentally in go mode.
My last job I didn’t do 24s, but I did do 16s, and I had to work a lot of OT to pay rent, so it was not uncommon for me to work 6 days/80 hours a week and I definitely did not spend time sitting around the station. I was almost always out running calls. I’d come home, sleep for 3/4 hours and be out the door again to work.
Not trying to do the suffering one-upsmanship. I’ve had to do clinical shifts in the ER for my schooling and I hated every moment of it. I don’t think you could pay me enough to work in a hospital, it’s not my thing. I have deep respect for my nursing homies, I love them and always have had a great working relationship with them. OP commented that they don’t know any other jobs with such ridiculous working requirements so I added two.
Can I introduce you to EMS and firefighters 24 and 48 hour shifts?
I was at the gym the other week and this trio of tiny elderly ladies who all were well under 5 ft in stature and were dressed like grannies were walking around looking at all the equipment clearly trying to figure it out and occasionally taking turns giving it a try. I was trying so hard not to be rude and stare but they were so adorable and it made my day watching them
Oh, I’m so sorry about your cat! It’s so hard when they’re suffering. I cry just thinking about the inevitable end someday, I don’t know how I’m going to get through it when it happens, my cats are all I have.
I work 24 hour shifts. It’s great! I love it, because I only have to work 2 days a week and have off the rest of the time. On the other hand, that shitty feeling you have when you start your shift and go “well, I just gotta get through X more hours then I can go home”? I gotta get through 24 more hours before I get to go home. It sucks.
Thankfully the cat did not get the Adderall. He does not need the Adderall. Luckily I went to take my pill first so I had an extra hand free to pop his mouth open and as I was putting it in my mouth my brain kicked in and went “why is your Adderall blue and not pink?” That’s when I realized that I was about to take his Prozac and give him my Adderall. The last thing I need is to be more tired and the last thing he needs is to be more hyper.
A new coworker recently asked me the age of my cat. When I told him my cat is almost 10 he said “aw, that’s so sweet, you have a nice calm senior cat.” I got home from work and that night my cat was being his normal self, tearing all over the apartment, laying on his back flipping his toys around and ferociously trying to murder them, and “helping” me sort paperwork by grabbing random papers from the stacks and running away with them. I couldn’t stop laughing, I was like hey bud, didn’t you know you’re supposed to be a calm senior?
I did delete the bookmarks, yes. I’ll have to keep playing with it and see if I can make it stop, but it does make me feel a little better knowing what it is. I just wish they were more open and transparent about it. Seeing my browser just randomly redirecting me through third party links with no warning is alarming and makes me want to go find another browser and I’ve gone through like 6 in the last 2 years trying to find one I like.