Just trying to live with as little advertising as possible and curious what tips or tricks the community has aside from moving out to a cabin in the woods.
I can’t really get away from road side advertising for now. Public sporting events are completely infected, and for the ads I am forced to see I try to make a conscious effort not to buy their goods or services. I won’t subscribe to a streaming service if they have a sub+ad tier, if they’re separate free with ads or sub no ads I’ll support it.
Not really for any moral stance, but ad blockers are good at avoiding malware and some services are basically broken if you have to wait for an ad network, and I just feel mentally healthier in general without the extra propaganda.
In the world of streaming devices the AppleTV is the only one I’ve used with no ads on the homescreen.
You should def check out the privacy communities. I only vaguely follow otherwise I would direct link you to the best one.
Shh…
It’s private…
J/k
No tips for physical ads, but you can set up a pi hole and route your home internet through it.
Give Kagi a try if you haven’t already. It’ll cost you a little but you can try it for free (100 searches I think) and see how you like it. The advantage of paying for search is of course that you’re no longer the product, so no more selling your data to ad companies every time you search something, plus it’s actually in the providers’ interest to make searching a better experience for you. Just the fact that I never have to see Quora in my search results ever again (I can just block their site) would be worth the price for me. It’s just a little thing that made a huge difference for me since I search the web so many times daily, and for a long time now the results has been mostly useless.
I was just pumping gas at a random 76 station a couple days ago and the gas pump started blaring ads at me. Like, FUCK OFF! It made me want to go back at night and stab every single one of their pump screens with a screwdriver.
I don’t know if it’s still the case but you used to be able to press the 2nd button down on the right to mute the pump’s audio
It changes based on model but yeah generally holding one of em down mutes it
I pressed all of them and none of them did anything, so I just walked away. I will never go back to that gas station. I’m not going to be held captive to some bullshit advertising.
Obviously they obscure what button combo does it.
Well, I hope the $2 they got for those ads that played while I was pumping gas were worth losing my business forever to them.
No TV, radio, highways. Avoid things with ads and seek things without.Take the back way to your local library for free media. No movie theaters, no public transport, no cities, lots of DIY.
I started blocking ads on Facebook. Even ones I might be interested in at some point. I mean every single fucking ad I would hide, block that specific ad, block a user page or something of relevant, and then report the fucking lot of them. It takes a little while, but eventually you get zero ads (for some time). They will of course refresh their ad campaigns and push new stuff occasionally. A simple hide-block-report and it gets cleaned up again in short order.
Stop using social media, go hike, and go somewheres you enjoy that has lots of new faces.
Stay off the internet.
