plz1 @ plz1 @lemmy.world

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The "approaching 3 people" bit is quite targeted, but I still get sketched out at the fact that you're setting "12 emails" as the minimum because it's the legal maximum. It's like drivers that interpret the posted speed limit as "you must drive at least this fast, but don't go over or you will get ticketed" and not reality of "this is the max legal speed you are permitted to drive without penalty".

Before you go into a "if you don't agree with the law" bit, I'll just note that just because something you're doing is legal, doesn't make it ethical, wanted, or moral. I can play my stereo, outside,, at a certain max decibel level, every day, until exactly 10 PM, and still be within the law. That doesn't mean my neighbors won't want to murder me after the 2nd or 3rd day I do it. Ethics and morality are the reason I don't, not the law. The law if for companies/people/entire industries like yours (marketing, not your product), because society knows guardrails are needed, even if they are overly loose (likely intentionally as a byproduct of lobbying/brigery).

The fix for that is a Sharpie or electrical tape, like all other LED's you want to hide.

I don’t prevent them from reaching anyone. I do prevent scummy sales and marketing people from doing spray and pray email and phone tactics trying to peddle wares, though. When a company sends hundreds of emails or starts auto dialing our phone number ranges indiscriminately, they are blocked.

If I'm a CDAO of a billion dollar company, I've already delegated that cost reduction effort to someone else and your type of unscrupulous spray and pray marketing is exactly what I've told them to avoid once they see it.

I work in IT, and routinely blacklist vendors, block their corporate email domains, phone number blocks, etc., once I find they are doing this targeting toward my company in hopes of landing "the right decision maker" to talk to. If your product is good and worth it, and we actually need or want it, you don't need that type of sales/marketing tactic to get in the door.

Your game is the reason I love that my company has an email filtering platfo9rm that tags "bulk" email and I just send all of it to trash with a rule. If your email is all fancy HTML and inline CSS to make it look flashy, not a chance I'm seeing it.

"Let them eat cake"

Defense against it

• uBlock Origin
• NextDNS (I highly recommend this to everyone because you can easily get it for mobile devices and block ads served over mobile networks)
• PiHole
• Plenty of other options

But if corporate media reported on ways to block ads, it'd eat into their own bottom line, so I can understand their choice to skirt the whole "ads are blockable with some level of effort" conversation.

I've been blocking online ads for nearly the entirety of my multi-decade usage of the internet, to the point where seeing them now is actually quite jarring. The fact that they're now a prime vector for malware and spyware/capitalist surveillance just one-ups the decision to block them just for the annoyance factor.

For those complaining about the short sentences many of these folks are getting, the silver lining is this is a felony on their records, forever. Decent jobs will be nearly unreachable, once they get out, and federal prison sentences has no (drastic) "released early for good behavior" crap like state ones. No "sentenced to ten years, out in 4" at the federal level.

Well damn

My Google stuff predated my Apple usage. I’m Google-free now, though.

Stitcher seems to be the goto for Android.

Overcast is superior to both. And I used to pay for YouTube Music…

Apple TV? No ads, works well with Plex, bypasses crappy TV “smart” features.

Their comment was in relation to Neuralink being in the news about killing monkeys, recently, not attributing OP’s news to him.

Bing is the free tier, to get people to use it. Co-pilot was never going to be free. They need to recoup the $10 Billion investment in OpenAI.

The easy way to turn it off is not paying for it. It’s like $30/user/month.

Good luck on your journey away from Google, it’s worth the effort.

This is the way

That's excellent news, especially for the employees of Amazon subcontractors handling warehouse and delivery operations.

Proton or DDG? For Proton, I use a custom domain for my email, so that was moot. DDG could have a better name, for sure.

Proton itself has no access to the encrypted content of your email. Also, they are not an ad company, so their product isn't you.