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I enabled an ad blocking VPN on my wife's phone but it interfered with a streaming app so she disabled it. Sometimes she asks me to check her phone for the next step in a recipe or something, and the webpage has an ad at the top and at the bottom and the display is two thirds advertisement but she just says "it doesn't bother me." I don't understand how people live like this.
I can kinda get that. I probably see more ads than I think I do. Self adblock from your brain.
I don't know if it's my spectrum brain or if this happens to other people. But I realized that I have literally mistlenly trained my brain to ignore REALLY OBVIOUS warning signs because they basically are designed the same as ads.
I'm the idiot trying to figure out why something isn't working with the big sign next to me telling me why.
Small tiny text sign in black on white. Well, that looks important. I'll read that. Big red bold and underlined sign. Can't fucking see it.