• LiveLM@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    When watching over-the-air television, I mute the TV and look away when ads come on.
    You can show me all the ads in the world but you sure as fuck can’t force me to engage.

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    God help those fuckers when I finally fall down the TV Tuner + Jellyfin + TVHeadend rabbithole. I’m gonna “Live Pause” that shit or I’m gonna straight up DVR everything I wanna watch and skip the ads.
    And my parents watch much more OTA TV than me so you bet your ass I’m setting up every TV in their house with a cheap trustable Android TV stick and teaching them how to Pause, Rewind and Fast Forward. Fuck ads foreverrrrrr.

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      I get this and I also don’t engage with ads but at the end of the day they are what pays for the stuff you want to watch.

      It’s a shitty system and it’s become amazingly predatory. Needless to say I used revanced on my phone.

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        Ads can’t be permitted to pay for things, though. One has a moral obligation to make sure that that strategy does not work, because it degrades both whatever the advertisements are inserted around (which becomes optimized to get attention at the expense of anything actually useful, like entertaining or conveying information) and the people who perceive it (because it creates capital inside their minds, in the form of brands, artificially alters their culture, and deliberately creates fear, mistrust of loved ones, and feelings of inadequacy).

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    17 hours ago

    “A trans person peed here” stickers in gas station bathrooms/other public bathrooms.

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        10 hours ago

        I used to travel a lot in eastern Oklahoma, and left a lot of stickers at gas stations in the middle of bumble fuck nowhere towns. Probably less smiles and more anger honestly, but fuck them. Also did some on a trip to Missouri, where I’m pretty sure it was illegal for me to piss.

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    17 hours ago

    Run every reasonable possible method of ad-blocking. From whole-house PiHole with uBlock, Privacy Badger, anti-tracking, VPN, and more. F/OSS software when possible.

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      Firefox has an addon called AdNauseam that’s based on uBlock Origin but clicks on ads in addition to blocking them.

      Chrome had it, but google removed it because they can.

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    18 hours ago

    More to the woman. My girl once complained about me leaving the seat up.

    For years, I always put the seat AND the lid down.