It’s not literally listening 24/7, people are insane if they think it’s doing that. And even if it were, just block all the ad, tracking domains and/or IP blocks and be done with it.
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More evil from everyone’s favorite regime I mean administration. Animal welfare aside this only causes victims of domestic violence to delay or abandon looking for refuge.
Of course, they already know that and cruelty—as usual—is the point.
I’m just using a Hario pour over coffee set, it was like $30 altogether.
Part of my story also involves getting away from Keurig because the machines are so unreliable and the K-Cups are so terrible for the environment.
Did you not read my edit?
Anyway, I prefer to block at the DNS level so that ads and tracking are blocked across all apps on all my devices—this happens before traffic is bounced through a double hop VPN.
I intentionally don’t block in-browser because then it’s likely to hide content coming from domains I want blocked from apps too. That’s why I use the Hide Distracting Elements feature of Safari.
Finally, the blurry <div> blocking the article isn’t even an ad. It would be cool if you didn’t shit on my setup without knowing anything about it in the first place. If I were making assumptions about yours I’d say you’re only running a “decent” ad blocker in your browser and missing 99% of the bullshit in apps and outside the browser.
I used to be like this but once I found really good coffee beans (to grind myself) I only needed a bit of agave and an unsweetened oat milk creamer.
Part of the change is due to going vegan (no more mint Oreo dairy creamer) but it forced me to discover better flavors.
What do ads have to do with it? I’m blocking ads and tracking to the point that it’s rather extreme and not convenient for most people.
Edit: Now I see what you mean. I block at the DNS level but using Safari’s Hide Distracting Elements feature I got rid of the <div> doing the blur. Had I been on desktop I probably would’ve been able to get it using Element Inspect, but I’d thought this specific website was smarter than that.
Anyone have the links to any repos? I’m not in the mood to hand out an email address just to read this story.
Edit: Lemmy is worse each and every day. Fuck me for disturbing the hive mind you fucking wankers.
Oh believe me, I know all those issues exist. The idea would simply never happen.
Yeah, I know my idea is a pipe dream—it would never happen due to greed.
Are you talking about Texas?
And why is QuickBooks still the “default” for most small businesses despite everyone knowing how corrupt Intuit is?
Friends don’t let friends use Intuit products.