What I do, eschew as much shit as possible. Download books and vids for free and read and watch those.
Tailscale pointed to nextdns (or just plain nextdns) with blocklists enabled is pretty effective for those wanting to go that route. Its made my online experience so much better. You get similar results to pihole but quicker to set up with less to manage.
I know tailscale has a pretty positive image right now, but it is also yet another company you just have to trust with your data. I am not comfortable using their services, it just shifts the issues from one company to another.
I was introduced to this post by the burialgoods video
It's the same channel narrating the video may i have some oats with the two pigs!
Great channel, cannot recommend enough
Youtube shorts / short form content has driven me so mad that I've now deleted all social media, with only voyager to access lemmy. I actually couldn't handle how shit it all is, which I kept going back to like a drug
I work with a guy in his 70s who has gotten his credit card or bank card info stolen at least 5 times in the last year. He simply doesn't have the digital education to identify a spam email or a scam call from a real one. It's all just too overwhelming for him.
I got one call from the coast guard asking me if I had a package from Mexico coming in. He tried to sound aggressive and had an Indian accent. Total scam of course.
I just was aggressive right back. Like have you opened the package? If so, what's in it? Money? Cause I'll take that! He keeps pressing me for what's in the package. I said, you tell me. I'm sure you opened it already? Just hangs up. Believe nothing you get from a phone call and always verify multiple ways.
I got someone calling me midnight, trying to convince me she's my daughter, and she needed me to send her money. I regret not making some name on the spot to waste the scammer's time, but at the time I was genuinely worried some clueless girl was actually trying to call her dad. (I don't have children, mind you.)
Who the actual fuck has ever clicked on an ad inhibiting you from watching the rest of the video you were enjoying? I will carry a grudge for businesses that hound me like that. Keep your fucking ads off my monitor. If I want to watch ads, I'll tune into the Superbowl qYearly. This is why TV stations and ad executives were told to fuck off when the VCR was invented and released for consumer purchase and they tried to regulate them and make it so people could not FFW through ads and the SCOTUS had to settle it. This is the same shit different medium. If your advertisers don' think they are getting a good bang for their buck, tough shit. Stop paying inane shitinfluencers so much money to further expedite the fast track to idiocracy and you wouldn't need to rely on ad revenue.
I like it when I see a black box saying "We're sorry we can't show this content in your country" - I'm like "WTF? You're sorry you can't annoy me? I don't even want to see your lousy ad, let alone you being sorry about content only you care about!"
People need to learn that just because you see an ad for something doesn't mean you need to DO the thing. Take the time to learn who you are and then look at all these external things and ask yourself if you need this shit in your life. 95% of the time, the answer is no. If you're confident in who you are as a human, you can pick and chose and neuter the things you want and avoid the ones you don't.
Besides the solid list from @HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world, use an Invidious front end. Even just search for a video on DDG and play it there.
I am getting tired with all of this ad nonsense. I just want to watch a video, ffs
Amen.
TS Eliot would be proud.
So would Edgar Alan Poe, for that matter.
Aw hell... Dante, too.
The techbrahs and enshittifiers deserve the 9th circle, they are inch by inch savoring their betrayal of humanity.
The 9th circle was made for them, and sending them home is as good as doing the same for a Nazi.
Not that most of them aren't also Nazis.
Has yt just...stopped working for anyone else? I assume it's due in some part to the various addons I have blocking ads and js, but it was just getting jankier and laggier (lagging my whole system) by the day until the latest ui update broke it completely. I've just moved off the site entirely now, so probably for the best, but I struggle to understand how progressively making the user experience worse is supposed to generate higher profits. So dumb.
Shiver me timbers!
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