• Rekorse@beehaw.org
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    I honestly am not sure why we had become so tolerant of advertisements in our face.

    Perhaps we had reasoned it was just the way these companies make money, a necessary evil.

    Its getting to the point though, where the more I see a company advertise and put out meaningless and ambiguous statements the less I trust that company.

    Isn’t there some old adage about don’t trust what someone tells you about themselves, rather than the way they act?

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      I wouldn’t mind as much if half the websites out there didn’t have the trashiest ads I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve got an ad blocker on my desktop but not on my phone. Amazing that supposedly “professional” businesses are filling their sites with sleazy ads that look like they’ll lead you directly to installing a bunch of viruses.

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        Pi-hole and a vpn on my phone keeps me ad free everywhere, and with extensions on firefox on pc and andriod it keeps other annoyances that aren’t ads away

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          AdAway says it’s blocked 200K advertisers since I got my new phone less than a month ago.

          I don’t love the Pixel 7a’s size or battery life, but I can’t go to a phone I can’t root. Call recording and AdAway are non-negotiable.

          I also needed root to get LineageOS-style “hold hardware button to activate flashlight” to work. I could live without that, but it would be very annoying not to have a flashlight instantly when I need it. I activate that all the time.

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      Aggressive advertising isn’t anything new, remember when a 30 minute TV slot was 8 minutes of advertising? Or when every site in the 00s had at least 3 banners of malware ads with sound that played obnoxiously loud on load?