For almost 25 years I’ve stayed at the cutting edge of high seas technology simply to not be a profit center. I’ve probably spent nearly as many hours staying ahead of the attempts to make sure I watch ads as actually having watched the ads themselves. I’ve dropped several social media platforms as soon as they started to enshittify, to the detriment of keeping in touch with friends and family.
But I regret nothing, not only have I been unprofitable, I’ve saved money by not having any subscriptions to cable TV or streaming services for a quarter century. I’ve donated as much as I’ve saved to projects that help me do that and creators that simply ask nicely for me to support their content instead of being conduits for these fucking vampires to suck people dry.
danque@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And the time we have to put in that effort. Seeing those messages want me to block them even more and if they block me, then it’s a challenge to unblock it.