• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t know what to buy anymore.

      I have a problem where because I’m so hard to advertise to 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

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        9 months ago

        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.

    • Clanket@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • daed@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        For articles which won’t let you disable cookies there’s usually an archived version somewhere.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.

      • asmoranomar@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Instead of manually denying cookies, you can deny all cookies and whitelist the sites you trust.

        Edit: also note - websites that give you the ‘option’ to opt in or out may not have the same opinion on what cookies are ‘optional’ or ‘mandatory’. Several don’t even do anything and are just there to look compliant.