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[–] Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I wish I could be as pleased with it. I don't want to pay for a service and have that service still collect data on me to push ads elsewhere.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately that's everything. Netflix, buying groceries with a credit card, even driving your new car.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It doesn't have to be this way. Somewhere in the past something went wrong.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

No. Nothing went wrong. Just nobody cares how anything works just so long as it does.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

Mate, you can't use basically anything today then. Your car probably collects data on you. I'm not saying I love it, but life's too short for me to cut everything trying to collect my data out of my life. Gotta pick and choose my battles.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

If you block ads everywhere else then it doesn’t really matter. Pi.hole, AdGuard, proton vpn, Firefox will all block ads for you on pretty much every other site on the planet.