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Also who decided that #Ads on #TVs (as predicted by James Rolfe) should be even legal?
Seriously, everytime someone pays legitimately for content, they get treated worse than someone pirating it!
- As for the #Enshittification of #TV|s:
- Don't buy that garbage, get a "#DigitalSignage #Display" from like #illyama [#ProLite] or any "Stupid Screen", grab yourself some #NUC or whatever and put @Kodi / #Kodi on it and enjoy your media the way you like them, without #Adware and #SurveillanceTech spying on you!
#Mastodon on the #fediverse is the only #place in the #world that will #protect you from:
Never give up your rights for privacy, free speech and right to live as you are and build a legacy from that.
@linkachus17 you propably forgot:
- No #Algorithms
- No perverse incentives to maximize screentime like #ads, #RageBait, #ClickBait, #HateBait, …
- Organic (you don't get #celebrity recommendatios!)
- You discover your own followers and followers are discovering you!
- Decentralized
- Not a single person owns it.
- Not a big corporation owns it.
- If Mastodon enshittifies, people can just "fork off" and continue.
- Authenticity is rewarded over optics
- …
I have come to the realization that Bluesky is too normy for my taste. If corporations have taken over FB and propaganda has taken over X then it's reasonable to say that the fringe of normies still hangout on BlueSky - the same people that talk a lot about little things, but make few big ideas work to be possible. Long live #Mastodon now into our future! I will never ever force #age #verification or #ads on any server I ever run here.
this explains so much about recent ads i’ve seen on #tv :
the company in charge of the #ads blocks in #AMC movie theaters concocted a competition for the best AI short film. the winner would be shown during that ad time.
i’ve been spooked into uncanny valley territory with ads for betting & crypto companies. there’s one betting ad with a Black woman that am almost certain is all AI. it’s the skin & voice.
anyways, ads aren't regulated. am getting the feeling many are now #AIslop.
Amazon's Twitch enshittification reach a new step of ads hell.
> Twitch continues to deteriorate as a platform because what do you mean I can't tab out to my second monitor during the ad break.
How people tolerate twitch ? How influencers can impose this to their audience?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169748
Drink a verification can to continue...
#enshittification #technology #twitch #ads #amazon #gaming #video #streaming #peertube #owncast
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Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away. Acid minimizing or muting twitch for a better experience"
#Mozilla has lost their ground and is now in a free fall into a sinkhole. I doubt they'll ever get out if this again unless they do a 180-turn within the coming days. Mozilla has lost a lot of trust and credibility over the last couple of years. This accelerates that distrust even more.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/
It looks promising, until you hit the last paragraph (my highlight)
In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our privacy notice. Whenever we share data with our partners, we put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share is stripped of potentially identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).
In my book, that's indirectly selling data.
Goodbye, #Firefox.
WHAT IN THE EVER BURNING HELL
William Shatner in a Kellogg’s Raising Bran commercial being called WILL SHAT
@qgustavor @fluffykittycat @eff There is no way to "verify age" without basically self-doxxing.
- The only solution to that problem is either ban #AntisocialMedia (or rather the #antisocial aspects designed to maximize #screentime, incite emoptional reations [#RageBait] as well as #Ads and #Algorithms that are "skinnering " users into abusive patterns by exploiting #Gambling and other mechanics against them.
But since #regulation won't happen (instead only #Cyberfascism would), the only feasible option is to teach #TechLiteracy & #MediaLiteracy and get people off #CorporateAntisocialMediaPlatforms!
Immer mehr Erwachsene werden mit ADS oder ADHS diagnostiziert. Was steckt hinter der Krankheit und wie geht es nach der Diagnose für Betroffene weiter?
#ADHS #ADS #AstridNeuyLobkowicz #MentaleGesundheit #Neurologie #Forschungsquartett
Not shure if it's due to the #GeneralStrike that allegedly happened on 23.01.2026 in the #USA but I've seen #US #Corporations trying to #offset any reduction of #revenue with sudden #promotions and #discounts.
- Not just #Amazon, but also #BurgerKing and others seem to try their best to avoid any #dent on their revenue sheets!
OFC, #DontCrossThePicketLine and #RefuseToBuy in #solidarity with those resisting the #fascist #Trump Regime and the #AmericanGestapo aka. "#ICE"!
#FuckICE #USpol #tech #ads #Advertising #fascism
AodeRelay boosted#Amazon seems to realize that people don't like their #Spyware / #Snitchware / #Govware appliances at their doors, so they try to sell it to #TechIlliterates in #Germany...
- Well, nope!
#Camover #GAFAMs #AmericanGestapo #CloudAct #blink #ring #CamOver #sarcasm #commentary #USpol #DEpol #Ads #Advertising
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Amazon Germany pushing a promo for their blink & ring devices
#Amazon seems to realize that people don't like their #Spyware / #Snitchware / #Govware appliances at their doors, so they try to sell it to #TechIlliterates in #Germany...
- Well, nope!
#Camover #GAFAMs #AmericanGestapo #CloudAct #blink #ring #CamOver #sarcasm #commentary #USpol #DEpol #Ads #Advertising
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Amazon Germany pushing a promo for their blink & ring devices
Went to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune website - they’ve been doing tremendous coverage of ICE’s assault on the city and residents’ defense of their neighbors.
An ad popped up for fixing broken heating. Today it’s -20F (-30C) in Minneapolis, so that’s about the best-placed ad I can imagine.
#minneapolis #ice #ads
#SocialMedia #Ads #TargetedAds
Thnk goodnedd there's no ads in the Fediverse.
I hide/block a lot of ads on my FB feed. I wonder if anyone really looks at the reason I give.
I blocked a mens soap company and the reason I checked was "knows too much."
No way! This is a shocking development that nobody could have predicted.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/threads-rolls-out-ads-to-all-users-worldwide/
“When you advertise on Mozilla’s Firefox and MDN Web Docs, you’ll connect with over 210 million selective, discerning, brand-loyal users. Because they trust us, they’ll trust you.”
– Mozilla
🤣
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Comic drawing of a street with lots of billboard advertisement wherever you look. On one wall, there is graffiti. A person points at it and angrily shouts "Ah hah, graffiti!"
@katalogeur personally, I tend to only allowlist #JavaScript with #NoScript but that's just me hating #Cryptojacking and other #malware as well as #adware / #scams / #ads.
https://www.usluck.com/735746/planters-peanuts-ad-1953/ Planters Peanuts ad (1953) #Ads #Advertisements #OldSchool #Vintage #VintageAds #VintageAdvertisements
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Planters Peanuts ad (1953)
Next up is splitting out the #ADS-B #ulterfeeder from the #piaware pod so ultrafeeder runs on a node with a #RTL-SDR connected to it but the feeder pods (those that send to data to websites) can run anywhere since those don't have a hardware requirement.
Just for grins, I tested @Vivaldi and Google Chrome against the EFF's great tool, Cover Your Tracks (https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/). I used the latest version as of 2025-12-17.
Both browsers have @privacybadger installed, and both enjoy network-based DNS filtering from #NextDNS.
On Vivaldi, I have the most strict blocking and filtering enforced that I can have. In Chrome, the only thing I changed from the out-of-the-box defaults were relatively new Ad Privacy settings (https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/13355898)(all disabled).
Interestingly, Cover Your Tracks seems to detect that Google Chrome shares FEWER unique identifiers than Vivaldi. Interesting.
#privacy #googlechrome #vivaldi #browsers #ads
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Screenshot comparing Vivaldi's latest version (7.7.3851.66) against Google Chrome's latest version (143.0.7499.146) - dated 2025-12-17
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Screenshot comparing the Cover Your Tracks results from Vivaldi's latest version against Google Chrome's latest version - dated 2025-12-17
As reporters look into the #SocialMedia ban in #Australia they keep finding strange details.
The creators of uBlock Origin are the closest thing we have to internet superheroes
#meme #memes #shitpost #adblock #ads #ad #advertising #youtube
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"Youtube engineers watching their latest adblock detection program get defeated in fifteen minutes by a bunch of autistic code monkeys fueled by nothing but the desire to not see ads"
advertising and sexim [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
This is one of the most #stupid, #bad and #sexist #ads I've ever seen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pio5Uiupa8Q
No woman with self-esteem likes a moron that sprays #AXE or believes in the "#LynxEffect" cuz a #Lynx just pisses on a tree to mark his territory...
Smart TVs use ACR to track what you watch, sending screenshots and device data for targeted ads 📺
Turning it off on Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense, and TCL requires digging through menus but reduces profiling 🔧
Less data shared means fewer risks tied to ad networks and third-party access 🔒
#TechNews #Privacy #Security #Data #SmartTV #TV #Television #LG #Samsung #Sony #ConsumerRights #DigitalSafety #Cybersecurity #Ad #Ads #Tracking #Tech #Streaming #HomeTech #Awareness
@dmarti #NSAbook / #StasiBook proudly supports #Disinformation and #Scammers via their #Advertising!
- They just overcharge them for #ads...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm9cRcuiG2I
#Facebook #Meta #Scams #ScamAlert #OnlineAdvertising #MetaPlatforms
Facebook, Scammers, Moderation [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
@rayglittersoft it's the same reason why #NSAbook / #Stasibook aka. "#meta" nee #Facebook refuses to #ban #scammers or their #ads, because they account for $16B in ad revenue, or 43% of it in total on "#MetaPlatforms" #advertising...
www.linkedin.com##div[componentkey="newsAndGamesCard"]
#uBlockOrigin #LinkedIn #cruft #clutter #ads
This post is not an invitation to scold me for using LinkedIn or Microsoft products, nor to suggest I leave it or find alternatives.