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I Hate the Internet Free FREE I HATE THE INTERNET PDF Jarett Kobek | 288 pages | 18 May 2016 | We Heard You Like Books | 9780996421805 | English | United States Review: I Hate the Internet, by Jarett Kobek – arkbooks Posted by I Hate the Internet Jan 4, Book Reviews 0. I get the feeling this may be a very quotable book. Below is the opening to chapter one:. Throughout the book, Kobek obsessively defines I Hate the Internet noun and concept assuming the reader has been in a coma for the last century. The novel is absolutely steeped in pop-culture which, by the by, is one term Kobek never defines. His main target is comics — and how they fucked over Jack Kirby — but he also has fun with Heinlein, Dick, Ballard and I Hate the Internet sundry male science fiction authors. At the halfway point of the book, Kobek finally has a crack at Doctor Who and its fandom. I know a few Russian bots that would disagree with this assertion:. But none of this is new or profound. SalonHuffPothe New York Times and countless other media outlets have published articles making similar arguments for years. Elections can be won or lost because of the involvement of a horde of Pepe lovers on Twitter or a sensationalist bit of fake news on Facebook. Also, that title is a selling point. This is not a novel that trades in subtlety or ambiguity:. While this was I Hate the Internet news to me:. Still, amongst all the annoying callbacks there is the odd funny observation:. Like this: Like Loading Previous Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney. I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek | The Hysterical Hamster You spend a lot of time on the internet—so make sure you're spending that time being as smart, productive, and efficient as possible, with I Hate the Internet ultimate collection of tips for becoming a power user on the web. You'd be amazed how much quicker you can get around the web just I Hate the Internet learning a few keyboard shortcuts—find lists for Chrome hereFirefox hereSafari hereand Microsoft Edge herethough there are some that work across browsers and platforms. A virtual private network VPN app running on your computer or mobile encrypts your connection to the web, making it much harder for other people to snoop on your browsing—whether that's the government, your internet service provider, or the guy sat behind you at the coffee shop. We'd recommend for paying for a quality, trustworthy VPN— this site is a good starting point. Your browser of choice will have a private or incognito mode, so make the most of it. It means your browsing history won't be logged, so you can use it for those searches you don't want showing up in targeted ads for the next six months, or for logging into several different social media accounts at once, or for visiting sites that you'd rather the rest of your family didn't find out about. You're probably familiar with browser bookmarks and the idea of 'starring' webpages to get back to later if you ever get around to it I Hate the Internet, but bookmarks can be more useful than you might think—you can add bookmarks for your Gmail draftsyour Facebook settingsyour deleted Spotify playlists I Hate the Internet, and your Netflix viewing activityfor example. This slows down your web access initially, as every URL needs to be looked up again, but it wipes incorrect and out-of-date entries and keeps your browsing lean and mean in the longer term. Cookies—little bits of code left on your browsing device—can be handy in certain situations for remembering your location on a weather site, for examplebut you want to make sure you block third-party cookies, the ones that monitor you across multiple sites and link those actions together. You'll find an option to block these cookies in just about every browser's settings panel some do it by default. This goes for every type of app and program on your devices, but make sure your browsers are always up to date and running the latest versions—it protects you against online threats, it reduces the number of bugs you're likely to come across, and it ensures compatibility with the latest web standards. Most modern web browsers now prompt you I Hate the Internet update automatically, so don't neglect these prompts. It's best practice to use long passwords for all your online accounts, and to use a unique password for each account you've got—but trying to remember all those login credentials is very difficult. Sign up for a password I Hate the Internet, and it'll do all the remembering for you: the likes of 1PasswordLastPassDashlane and Keeper are all worth a look. If you don't want to set up and maintain a separate password manager application, most modern browsers will offer to remember your passwords and other login credentials for you: look for the option in your browser's settings screen it's under Passwords in the Google Chrome settings, for example. This also means anyone who can get at your browser can get at your accounts, so make I Hate the Internet. Browser extensions are great: check out some of the fantastic add-ons available for Google ChromeMozilla FirefoxApple Safariand Microsoft Edgeable to do everything from displaying pop-up word definitions to downloading all the images from a particular website. If you find yourself wishing your browser had a particular feature, then there's I Hate the Internet an extension out there that can fill the gap. Add too I Hate the Internet extensions, however, and I Hate the Internet can lead to your browser getting bloated and weighed down. Unused, outdated extensions are a security threat too, because they could give hackers a way to access your system or your personal data. I Hate the Internet best to remove any add-ons from your browser that you're not actively using, and stick to just a handful that you find really useful. For easy access to your favorite websites on your phone, you can pin shortcuts to these sites on the home screen. On Android, open the website in Chrome, then tap the menu button three dots and choose Add to Home screen ; on iOS, open Safari and tap the share button the box and arrowand then select Add to Home Screen. When it comes to working on Windows and macOS, you can pin sites to the taskbar and dock respectively. On Windows, open the site up in I Hate the Internet Edge, then from the menu three dots, top rightchoose Pin this page to the taskbar ; on macOS, open the website in Safari, and just drag the URL down from the address bar of the browser to the right-hand side of the dock. Several browsers have what's known as a 'reading mode', which cuts out all the distractions from a page—adverts, videos, and so on—so you can focus on actually reading the article you're looking at. In Apple Safari, for example, I Hate the Internet the page icon on the far left of the address bar to I Hate the Internet reading mode; in Mozilla Firefox, click the page icon on the far right of the address bar. Tab management is one area where third-party extensions can really help your browser out, reducing memory usage and on-screen clutter at the same time. Check out Tab Manager Plus for Google Chrome, for example, which can group tabs and stop them from taking over your screen, or OneTab for Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, which is able to convert bunches of tabs into lists for later reference so you can close them all down and start again from scratch. Few web frustrations match having your browser suddenly start piping out audio, usually due to an auto-playing video or advert. You can get some peace and quiet back by right-clicking on the offending tab and choosing Mute Site Chromeright-clicking and choosing Mute Tab Firefoxclicking the speaker icon on the right-hand side of the address I Hate the Internet Safarior right-clicking and choosing Mute tab Edge. Websites are not the static, passive pages they used to be, they're apps running in your browser—and many of them might want access to your location, your webcam, your microphone and more. The internet is just so full of distracting content—great when you're at a loose end, not so great when you need to I Hate the Internet work done. LeechBlock is I Hate the Internet excellent, free blocker for Chrome and Firefox that lets you put time limits on the most distracting sites on the web, and helps you stick to them. If your Wi-Fi network isn't stretching into every corner of your house, do something about it. Your default browser is the one that automatically springs into life when you open up web links from an email, for instance. You can't set this on iOS, but you can everywhere else. Resetting your browser takes it back to the clean and untouched state it was in when you first installed it—the process can fix certain bugs and reduce the clutter in your browser, but you'll have to reinstall any extensions you've got set up. From Settings in Chrome, choose Advanced then Restore settings to their original defaults ; and in Firefox, enter "about:support" in the address bar and click Refresh Firefox.
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