AeroLemming @ AeroLemming @lemm.ee

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Understandable lol

Wow, awesome! I'll have to look into it when I have a chance.

If blocking ads is piracy, then billboards and junk mail are larceny. It goes both ways.

I agree. I think a big part of this move is that they know that YouTube isn't going to last for too much longer as the only service that does exactly what they do because it will be soon be profitable for many others that don't have the same level of scale and backing by Alphabet. This is a cash-out.

Right, because Israel is forcing them to have kids. Great comparison!

Yeah, Windows unfortunately. You have to completely reinstall it every time. Unless you constantly check for updates, you'll be behind on security.

That's a good suggestion, but I'm talking about websites that actually break on Firefox, not just refuse to work. I can't send messages to my doctor because the portal gives an XML parsing error on Firefox.

I'm asking specifically about Chromium browsers to be used as needed for compatibility.

The only real argument that could work would be that watching ads to get content is a form of transaction and not watching ads is therefore akin to piracy. However, this exact same argument could be used to ban ALL forms of unsolicited advertising (billboards, junk mail, etc) because under that model, many advertisers are essentially committing theft of your time and attention, which is shown to have some amount of monetary value by the previous transaction argument.

Baby boys don't, unfortunately. Adult men do, which isn't true for adult women. It seems rather pedantic that people would downvote you over such a simple mistake.

Depends on where you live. It's true that a lot of places have, for example, a lot more women-only homeless shelters despite having more homeless men. On the other hand, if you live in Texas, goodbye bodily autonomy.

Doesn't matter. What is calming to one may not be to another and people shouldn't impose that on each other.

Does it happen with normal stick deodorant, or just stuff that you spray?

Unfathomably based.

I started blocking ads on various websites when they got so numerous that it would actually lag my computer and make things hard to use. That was also around the time YouTube started pushing more unskippable ads. I was only ever mildly annoyed by the occasional sidebar ad and waiting 5 seconds at the start of a video, but when ads started covering websites and interrupting videos, I sought and found the ad blocking community. They did it to themselves.

Which one? The post has half a dozen links.

Oh shoot, thanks for letting me know. I guess it submitted fine, but couldn't return the OK status. Weird.

I'm on Boost. I also tried the browser and got the same issues, but it's not just the browser if it happens in apps too. It also affected both my phone and PC.

I mean, you can just install ClearURLs on Firefox for both desktop and Android and it will cover 99% of cases completely automatically without any technical knowledge.

The issue with boycotting a huge company like Nestlé is that you put in a ton of time and effort while denying yourself lots of useful products and on Nestlé's end, they lose out on less profit than they bring in in a single minute.

They made $9.7 billion Net income in 2022. That's over $18,000 EVERY MINUTE. You can't make a difference and they don't care. The only ways to enact change are either through the legislative/regulatory route or through the extralegal route.