gigastasioDec 2

What little things do you do each day that are your small ways of sticking it to the man?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/50878814

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

Lemmy

Show threadMutantTailThing

Don’t know if it counts as sticking it to the man, but I adblock everything. Seriously, Ive got adblockers on my adblockers. Ive been adblocking for so long I don’t know what to buy anymore.

I’m sitting here in my empty house surrounded by my bags of money I don’t know what to spend on. Send help.

Dec 2 at 10:22pmWeb
Show threadClanketDec 2
Same. I also treat cookies like a virus…no, no, and no again. Though I think my days are limited with that, a lot of websites now saying accept cookies or pay. I’ll give up the interwebs before I accept trackers.
Show threaddaedDec 2
For articles which won’t let you disable cookies there’s usually an archived version somewhere. Or you use some current alternative to 12ft. Or you ask an LLM to summarize the URL.
Show threadSuck_on_my_PresenceDec 3
12ft ladder has never worked for me, unfortunately. :/
Show threadɔiƚoxɘupDec 3
Check the Firefox plug-in called Web archives. It helps you archive web pages and it helps you find access to archive web pages. It’s pretty useful.
Show threadasmoranomarDec 3
Instead of manually denying cookies, you can deny all cookies and whitelist the sites you trust.
Show thread200okDec 3
Absolutely agree. Site owners only get fined if someone reports them. The regulators aren’t actively scanning sites to ensure compliance.
Show threadzerozakuDec 4
And how do I do that?
Show threadasmoranomarDec 4

To be blunt (but not to be mean), RTFM or google it. There are lots of ways to do it, and it all depends on the capabilities of your devices, OS, browsers and whether or not you want to use apps to manage it. And again, I’m not trying to be mean, it’s just that the question has the same effort as “how do I make food?”. I could give you the most gourmet answer and it may not help.

But to answer as simply as possible: Most browsers can do cookie whitelisting out of the box. Just be aware that it doesn’t prevent cookies outside the browser or outside the device - so if you have (for instance) a smart tv, you’ll need other solutions. And the solutions snowball from there, so I will leave it at that.

Show threadSpaceNoodleDec 2
Send money to me. I will dispose of.
Show threadgustofwindDec 2
In addition to this every device I use has an always on vpn
Show threadinsomniac_lemonDec 2
After pushback, I switched over to ad nauseam (which still blocks via UBO). Not sure how effective it actually is for the click part (considering it also catches related things, some YT recommends, share buttons, definite non-ad things in search etc) but it says $1.8K (I have it set between ‘sometimes’ and ‘always’).
Show threadBgugiDec 3
You should try picking up some
Show threadFondotsDec 3

I don’t know what to buy anymore.

I have a problem where because I’m so hard to advertise through between adblock and premium subscriptions, that I am usually very out of the loop on what movies and TV shows are coming out

The biggest ones usually make their way into the news or Lemmy somehow, but there’s definitely a lot I’m clueless about until I see them pop up streaming somewhere a couple years later

Show threadproleDec 3
Just visit Rotten Tomatoes once a week or so
Show threadotterDec 4

At least, by then, you know how many seasons you’re getting into, eh?

cries in Firefly

Show threadLazylazycatDec 4
I have this same problem! Friends will mention a film they’re about to see and I’ve literally never heard of it, and they very much act like I should have 😂 I do feel like I’m missing out on important information, but I’m still not turning ad blockers off.