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What little things do you do each day that are your small ways of sticking it to the man? (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

Tap for spoiler

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.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Start saving for a small pc and some large hard drives. It's worth it. Or pay for a VPN and use stremio and just stream torrents.

You can also buy access to other people's Plex servers, watch anything

Fuck advertisements. I've got pihole setup as my local DNS, ublock origin on all computers. Being bombarded every minute of every day to buy shit is getting real old really fast.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh I got a home server setup with Jellyfin and a bunch of media already, just need to figure out the Live TV stuff (for live news, some soap operas, stuff that doesn't get torrented much) for it to be 100% complete :)

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Many news channels have free streaming options. You don't have to watch the channels with ads, you know.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago

Last time I actually watched the news they were basically shilling for ozembic under the guise of "OMG there's gonna be a shortage!"

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Gotcha. I don't have the answer for that one unfortunately

[-] planish@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Perceiving advertisements is unethical. Good job!

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