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Paying bills at the end of the month has become so painful. Aside from the actual financial details, I still have to block ads from apartment complex, phone company, etc. after uBlock Origin does its thing. Some of these are really shameful, like offering to split rent payments to every two weeks if you take out a pay-day loan at crazy interest rates every month. Then I'm also blocking "AI answers" when I shouldn't have to search so hard to find "Pay Bill" in the first place. No, I'm too close to the edge to turn on autopay, just charge me $10 more a month to subject me to more ads, thanks. Then when I do pay it's "Looks like something went wrong! Please try again." and an email confirming payment in my inbox.

I found this slightly amusing. New, to me, anti-AdBlock efforts

Courtesy of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat newspaper: pressdemocrat.com/article/spec

The page appears to load normally at first. After a few seconds, the letters on the page visually jumbled into jibberish. (Hmm. After reloading the page a few times & switching from Reader View & back, it appears that I can now read the full article. Oh well. 🤣 )

Such a silly effort. IMO.

Wenn wer Ärger mit dem #NetworkManager im #AccessPoint Mode hat oder #DHCP, #DNS upstream, DNS port usw. individuell einstellen will...
...ich kann jetzt qualifiziert helfen...🙈

Kein Witz - ich habe sowohl im NetworkManager als auch #dnsmasq jede verfluchte Zeile im Code gelesen und verstanden die das Zusammenspiel beider Dienste im AP-Mode betrifft...

#piSpot...
(minimalistischer, mobiler #HotSpot #WLAN #WWAN #ETHERNET #VPN #Tor #AdBlock #ChildProtection #RaspberryPi #Raspberry #PiZero2)

Google Australia is increasing the price of youtube premium family plan to $40AUD a month. What a fucking joke. It was too expensive at the last increase ($32/month), but the wife begged me she didnt want to deal with adblockers.

This might be the end of it, no features or value in that increase.

Manchmal fühlt sich der Kampf für die (eigene) #informationelleSelbstbestimmung - den #Datenschutz - aussichtslos an,
ich möchte daher daran erinnern, dass auch kleine Schritte etwas bewirken können:
* Nutzt einen Ad- und Tracking-Blocker (#uBlockOrigin)
* Ändert die Standardsuchmaschine(auch wenn ihr diese nicht zu 100% nutzt) (#DuckDuckGo #Ecosia #Qwant #SwissCows)
* Wechselt den #Browser(#FireFox #Brave #LibreWolf)
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