Watch live TV.
In my country (Australia) live TV is ad-infested and most programs are reality TV garbage, so I stay away from it. Freetube + Peertube works for me.
Comment on [rant] I want computers to become personal again
duffer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I hear what you are saying, but I’m not sure why you aren’t doing what you want to do.
If you have a computer not provided by work, why do you have Slack or Teams?
Use ad blockers and/or Pi-Hole to avoid pesky ads.
Watch live TV.
Write a letter.
Stay away or use sparingly, data hungry services.
I know I feel better for it and I don’t feel as if I’m missing much.
mastazi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
dch82@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I’m mostly concerned about the general public as many are either ignorant or lack the knowledge on how to use these.
Ads have become the new normal
zecg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I haven’t seen an ad in ages on the internet. Also, ducks in the park are free.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They are slowly creeping back in. Once as blockers became mainstream (I blame Apple), the war on them began. I already see them reappearing on YouTube and Reddit.
You can scoff and declare that no one should use these platforms, but both have captured whole swaths of discourse and content online. And they will just keep chipping away at making sure the ads appear. Cat/mouse all that.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
sometimes the ‘content’ itself is an ad nowadays
riquisimo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
brb, pirating ducks.
Rooki@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The general public is ignorant and has the lack of interest in their privacy or in general in the internet. They just want to know whats the weather or funny cat videos.
The companies make their software so bloated because they want to sell you the “ad free”/deluxe experience for extra money.
They dont have the morales of you buy it you own it. See the gaming industry, the movie industry even the car industry all subscriptions, ads, data hoarding and telemetry all of what it is not necessary for any industry, if they did a good job and a good product. But as they just make a “warranty” hopping hardware, that just gets you over the warranty years and then spontaneous dies because of some electronic that was especially not there just to destroy the product after x years. See “The Crew” from ubisoft, users “bought” the game after few years a sequel came out and ubisoft just did most terrible thing you could do and just unplugged “The Crew” and made it unplayable, and even had the audacity to remove evidence by removing them from players playstation libraries and no refund possible.
They deliberately made that game a online only game (even this could and should have run perfectly offline) and then kill it after few years to force users to play newer games. Imagine this in the N64 era, the publishers would have gotten sued and defamed for this crap they would have done.
Then they ask themselves why is piracy back and even stronger than before, they just need to open their eyes and do their job.