I steal where I can from large corporations. I like to think of it as giving myself a discount.
I don’t report anything that I earn in cash to the IRS
Calm down there young man, they catch the majority of people from their internet posts
I also don’t report my cash earnings to the IRS and I keep the illegal funds in my rectum. Come for me, taxman, I double dare you, come - with your cheap suit, disdain, shiny shoes and lubed-up rubber glove. . .
When I get cash I use it to tip with so they can skim off the top.
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If buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing.
When watching over-the-air television, I mute the TV and look away when ads come on.
You can show me all the ads in the world but you sure as fuck can’t force me to engage.Tap for spoiler
God help those fuckers when I finally fall down the TV Tuner + Jellyfin + TVHeadend rabbithole. I’m gonna “Live Pause” that shit or I’m gonna straight up DVR everything I wanna watch and skip the ads.
And my parents watch much more OTA TV than me so you bet your ass I’m setting up every TV in their house with a cheap trustable Android TV stick and teaching them how to Pause, Rewind and Fast Forward. Fuck ads foreverrrrrr.Perceiving advertisements is unethical. Good job!
Start saving for a small pc and some large hard drives. It’s worth it. Or pay for a VPN and use stremio and just stream torrents.
You can also buy access to other people’s Plex servers, watch anything
Fuck advertisements. I’ve got pihole setup as my local DNS, ublock origin on all computers. Being bombarded every minute of every day to buy shit is getting real old really fast.
Oh I got a home server setup with Jellyfin and a bunch of media already, just need to figure out the Live TV stuff (for live news, some soap operas, stuff that doesn’t get torrented much) for it to be 100% complete :)
Many news channels have free streaming options. You don’t have to watch the channels with ads, you know.
Last time I actually watched the news they were basically shilling for ozembic under the guise of “OMG there’s gonna be a shortage!”
Gotcha. I don’t have the answer for that one unfortunately
I get this and I also don’t engage with ads but at the end of the day they are what pays for the stuff you want to watch.
It’s a shitty system and it’s become amazingly predatory. Needless to say I used revanced on my phone.
It would be ok if we didn’t have 5 ads on a 4 min video. They fucked their system and treated us like the bad guy. Fuck them for shooting themselves in the foot. There is a reason Google makes all their money from selling your personal data and advertising. Of course we’re going to work around it.
Ads can’t be permitted to pay for things, though. One has a moral obligation to make sure that that strategy does not work, because it degrades both whatever the advertisements are inserted around (which becomes optimized to get attention at the expense of anything actually useful, like entertaining or conveying information) and the people who perceive it (because it creates capital inside their minds, in the form of brands, artificially alters their culture, and deliberately creates fear, mistrust of loved ones, and feelings of inadequacy).
While I agree that ads are often necessary, I disagree with the predatory way they are presented. Google, and by extension YouTube, are the most egregious examples.
But there is no moral obligation to either engage with ads or avoid them. That notion is nonsensical
This a more “a man” than “the man” but I had a boss I hated who was really into horoscopes.
So I learned all about them so I could memorize every one else’s sign and continue to forget his.
Good luck writing me up for that Rob. Oh wait you couldn’t anyway because I outlasted you!
He also insisted I write “inspirational quotes” on the weekly sales paper for my team to feal inspired . nietzsche it is.
Feel*
To the Esteemed Corrector of My Spelling, and to the Entire Divine Assembly—He, She, They, It, and the One Made of Pure Bureaucratic Light:
Let all realms fall silent as I reveal my transgression:
I, humble fumbler of keyboards and repeat offender of vowel placement, did commit the unspeakable sin of typing feal instead of feel.
This error is not merely a human fault.
It is a violation of God’s sacred decrees, scribed on the Celestial Tablets of Spelling Accuracy—tablets which, I must add, are heavy enough that even angels don’t like moving them.
For this disgrace, I accept the age-old punishments:
Ten Lashes of Linguistic Shame,
Seven Thunders of Divine Spellcheck,
and the cold, judgmental stare of every librarian within a 500-mile radius.
Yet still, the weight of my error demands more.
Thus, I shall ascend a distant, storm-crowned mountain to train under an impossibly old master, one whose wisdom predates fonts themselves.
Possibly a dragon.
Almost certainly a dragon, given the scheduling.
This master will instruct me in the ancient arts:
the Flame of Proper Grammar,
the Wingbeats of Syntax,
and the Tail-Swipe of Unquestionable Verb Conjugation.
Only then shall I be purified.
Signed with Reverence, Regret, and Unavoidable Scheduling Conflicts:
Michael, Pilgrim of the Celestial Grammar Order,
Temporarily Unavailable Next Tuesday
(Because the Ancient Dragon Master said that was the only day they could fit me in),
and Kevin, I Am So Sorry—
Please Rent a U-Haul as I’ll need my truck for travel
For I Must Honor This Sacred Quest.
Is this a copypasta I’m not aware of? 🤣
edit: my new tech metal band name is Wings of Syntax
By not participating in work’s non-work activities.
There was this one time during a sprint retrospective that our PM said we were gonna do an ice breaker. This was a year and a half into my employment, and nobody else on the team had been there for less than 2 years.
I fucked off for a good 20 minutes on my phone while they were talking about each other’s spirit animals.
Linux and piracy.
Steal as much creamer from work as I can carry
I also only poop at work. Saves me paper, water, and time at home.
“Boss gets a dollar, I get a dime, 's why I poop on company time.”
“A trans person peed here” stickers in gas station bathrooms/other public bathrooms.
That is delightful. A smile for allies and discomfort for assholes.
I used to travel a lot in eastern Oklahoma, and left a lot of stickers at gas stations in the middle of bumble fuck nowhere towns. Probably less smiles and more anger honestly, but fuck them. Also did some on a trip to Missouri, where I’m pretty sure it was illegal for me to piss.
I joined a union and organized the election of a workers council at my workplace.
Union dues are 1% of my salary.In the past 5 years, we managed to enforce:
- the right to work from home
- 20% pay for the time spent on call after hours, plus 1 day paid vacation for each week you’re on call (so I now have 42 days + unlimited sick days)
- a company car for on call duty, which you’re allowed to use privately, too
- work phones for every employee (instead of having to install the company MDM on your private phone)
- convertible desks for everyone
- and a substantial pay raise
This post was about little things, no need to show your gigantic balls here.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
It began with a little thing, simply writing an e-mail to the union, and kind of grew from there.All good man, I just wanted to point out how impressive what you did was. You didn’t just stick it to the man, you went Vlad the Impaler on his ass.
Run every reasonable possible method of ad-blocking. From whole-house PiHole with uBlock, Privacy Badger, anti-tracking, VPN, and more. F/OSS software when possible.
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Hm. Not sure how I feel about giving them clicks for pay even if it muddies my profile. I’d rather they not know at all.
When I pump gas, I don’t end on an even dollar amount or anything. I just…stop.
I’m not following, how is this sticking it to the man?
So - you don’t wait until the nozzle clicks or anything? Just arbitrarily stop pumping?
Yeah, but I rarely fill up all the way regardless.
Some people have to budget how much gas they can fill at once. Maybe the budget allows for $30 a week, so they stop at $30, or in OP’s case something random like $28.73.
Alternatively, if you prepay at the counter, instead of handing them an even $30, you could hand them $29.39
I will intentionally avoid asking for 5 star reviews.
I hate those things!
Don’t know if it counts as sticking it to the man, but I adblock everything. Seriously, Ive got adblockers on my adblockers. Ive been adblocking for so long I don’t know what to buy anymore.
I’m sitting here in my empty house surrounded by my bags of money I don’t know what to spend on. Send help.
Same. I also treat cookies like a virus…no, no, and no again. Though I think my days are limited with that, a lot of websites now saying accept cookies or pay. I’ll give up the interwebs before I accept trackers.
For articles which won’t let you disable cookies there’s usually an archived version somewhere. Or you use some current alternative to 12ft. Or you ask an LLM to summarize the URL.
12ft ladder has never worked for me, unfortunately. :/
Check the Firefox plug-in called Web archives. It helps you archive web pages and it helps you find access to archive web pages. It’s pretty useful.
Instead of manually denying cookies, you can deny all cookies and whitelist the sites you trust.
Edit: also note - websites that give you the ‘option’ to opt in or out may not have the same opinion on what cookies are ‘optional’ or ‘mandatory’. Several don’t even do anything and are just there to look compliant.
And how do I do that?
To be blunt (but not to be mean), RTFM or google it. There are lots of ways to do it, and it all depends on the capabilities of your devices, OS, browsers and whether or not you want to use apps to manage it. And again, I’m not trying to be mean, it’s just that the question has the same effort as “how do I make food?”. I could give you the most gourmet answer and it may not help.
But to answer as simply as possible: Most browsers can do cookie whitelisting out of the box. Just be aware that it doesn’t prevent cookies outside the browser or outside the device - so if you have (for instance) a smart tv, you’ll need other solutions. And the solutions snowball from there, so I will leave it at that.
Absolutely agree. Site owners only get fined if someone reports them. The regulators aren’t actively scanning sites to ensure compliance.
I don’t know what to buy anymore.
I have a problem where because I’m so hard to advertise to between adblock and premium subscriptions, that I am usually very out of the loop on what movies and TV shows are coming out
The biggest ones usually make their way into the news or Lemmy somehow, but there’s definitely a lot I’m clueless about until I see them pop up streaming somewhere a couple years later
At least, by then, you know how many seasons you’re getting into, eh?
cries in Firefly
I have this same problem! Friends will mention a film they’re about to see and I’ve literally never heard of it, and they very much act like I should have 😂 I do feel like I’m missing out on important information, but I’m still not turning ad blockers off.
Just visit Rotten Tomatoes once a week or so
Send money to me. I will dispose of.
In addition to this every device I use has an always on vpn
You should try picking up some
After pushback, I switched over to ad nauseam (which still blocks via UBO). Not sure how effective it actually is for the click part (considering it also catches related things, some YT recommends, share buttons, definite non-ad things in search etc) but it says $1.8K (I have it set between ‘sometimes’ and ‘always’).
I don’t remember the last time I saw an advert.
Like, genuinely, I get politely confused when people talk about them. What do you MEAN you’re not adblocking everything? What do you MEAN you still use a service if you can’t adblock it? WHAT DO YOU MEAN you paid for YouTube?
My wife is a software developer who doesn’t use Ublock or Revanced and I’m so confused.
Has she ever given a reason?
I aggressively block ads, but being a server admin, I still have to see ads frequently when in a customer server and I have to browse for anything. I hate it so much.
I second this
