🚀 No Ads, No Problem! 🚀 Meet the Brave Hero Who Sacrifices Precious Time to Wage a Never-Ending War Against the Evil Forces of Online Ads! Spoiler Alert: He's the Same Guy Who'll Tell You to Subscribe to Everything You Like to Keep the Internet Alive. 🙄
https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/ #BraveHero #OnlineAds #InternetFreedom #AdBlocker #SubscribeToContent #HackerNews #ngatedHow I block all online ads
A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.
🎶 Behold, the tale of a brave soul battling the evil Cloud Overlords to rescue his precious music collection! Our hero, who has bravely refused to surrender to Spotify's siren call, now embarks on a quest to own his tunes like it's 1999 again. Because who needs convenience when you can have a personal music library that no one listens to? 😂✨
https://rosswintle.uk/2025/09/de-clouding-music/ #bravehero #musiccollection #CloudOverlords #personalmusiclibrary #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
De-clouding: Music - Ross Wintle
I’m going through a phase of figuring out what I can get out of the cloud and “own”. Particularly with regard to streaming services. I’ve never paid for Spotify. But I’ve had iTunes Match so that I can take all of the weird, not-on-streaming music that I have (I wrote about this back in 2013!!!!), […]
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