For years now, The Internet has been my life. I’m not a social person (except when I’m drinking), and I love spending my time on The Internet.
But, dammit, Internet, stop following me around!
What? Why?
I live alone. Just me. But, on my computer, I have set up a completely separate user account specifically for surfing porn. My primary reason for this is that, in the unlikely event that somebody else (Mom?) sits down at my computer, they’re not going to immediately find porn in their face. No porn links in my browser history, no porn lying around on my desktop.
The secondary reason for the separate user account is to separate my primary Internet identity from my porn-surfing identity. Any porn/sex/erotic-related sites that I sign into under this user account are signed into with names unrelated to any of my “regular” Internet identities.
So imagine my discomfiture when various porn “tube” sites started, and continued, to throw up “granny porn” ads on every damned video I clicked on.
See, I work in a retirement home as a cook. I feed “grannies”. The only place on the whole Internet where this information is available, along with my real name, is on my Facebook page. I’ve posted here about where I work, and of course my posts have been under my user name.
I had not installed an ad blocker under my porn user account, because sometimes the ads led me to something I was interested in. But goddammit, within a few months of my updating my employment status on Facebook, the whole Internet apparently connected my IP address with “old people”, and all of the free porn sites suddenly started spamming me with “granny porn” ads.
To which I say, “DO. NOT. WANT.” These ads have completely replaced the ads for porn I might actually be interested in. I finally had to install an ad blocker to get rid of that shit. Nothing worse than searching for “teen porn” and having photos of naked geriatrics shoved in my face.
Fuck you, Internet!