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.
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
Just visit Rotten Tomatoes once a week or so
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For articles which won’t let you disable cookies there’s usually an archived version somewhere.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.
Absolutely agree. Site owners only get fined if someone reports them. The regulators aren’t actively scanning sites to ensure compliance.
Send money to me. I will dispose of.
In addition to this every device I use has an always on vpn
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.
Push Nestle and Goya products way back in the shelf / turn them around / grab non- Nestle/Goya equivalents and put them in front of the Nestle/Goya shit.
Goal is to make their products less visible to other customers.
That is godlike, not small!
This is my favorite comment so far.
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.
I second this
When I buy from a small business that I want to support, I will use cash. When I’m buying anything from a large company, I will always use the fanciest credit cards in my wallet.
In the United States, credit card processing fees are more expensive for fancy rewards credit cards and obviously there’s no fee for cash.
That’s why nobody takes Discover or Amex. Their fees are higher than Visa and Mastercard.
I literally cannot think of any places that don’t take Discover.
Hmm go figure your mom gives me a hard time about it every time.
It’s the most-commonly rejected card. It has high fees without the clout of Amex. Amex customers are typically pretty wealthy and places will accept them because of their high-roller status. But Discover doesn’t have that going for them, so there’s less reason to accept the card.
Where you’ll find it rejected most often is small shops and government agencies.
For instance, my career has been in government, and no organization I’ve worked for has ever accepted Discover. We aren’t allowed to “profit” from our fees, so we have to include credit card processing in the adopted fee schedule. But since we can’t profit, we have to set the fee at whatever Visa and Mastercard charge. That extra 1 or 2 percent Discover charges can be millions for a large government (large city, statewide agency, etc). So, agencies simply don’t take Discover (and frequently AmEx, though they’ll sometimes negotiate).
Large retailers are able to negotiate better deals with Amex and Discover, but for smaller shops it just isn’t gonna happen. And that 1-2% (of the total charge) extra taken by the card processor is huge when your margins are small.
Heck - even the Visa and Mastercard fees are a huge deal. When I worked in retail management, those fees were secretly the big reason we pushed our store-brand credit cards. It wasn’t the 80 dollar commission for the account the store got - it was that if someone used our card in our store, we didn’t pay the processing fee.
We’d give 2% in points back for using the card in the store, which was a great deal for us since we didn’t have to pay the 3-4% fee to the processor.
It is definitely not true that Discover interchange rates are significantly higher than Visa or Mastercard.
I’ve put below a list of the actual interchange rates for various personal Visa, Mastercard, and Discover cards types.
Debit:
- Visa Debit Regulated: 0.05% + 22¢
- Discover Debit Regulated: 0.05% + 22¢
- Mastercard Debit Regulated: 0.05% + 22¢
- Visa Debit: 0.8% + 15¢
- Mastercard Debit: 1.05% + 15¢
- Discover Debit: 1.1% + 16¢
- Visa Debit Prepaid: 1.15% + 15¢
- Mastercard Debit Prepaid: 1.15% + 15¢
Base credit tiers:
- Visa CPS Retail: 1.51% + 10¢
- Discover Consumer: 1.56% +10¢
- Mastercard Consumer: 1.65% + 10¢
- Mastercard Enhanced: 1.8% + 10¢
Rewards cards:
- Visa Rewards Traditional: 1.65% + 10¢
- Visa Rewards Signature: 1.65% + 10¢
- Discover Rewards: 1.71% + 10¢
- Discover Rewards Premium: 1.71% + 10¢
- Mastercard World: 1.9% + 10¢
Premium cards:
- Visa Rewards Signature Preferred: 2.1% + 10¢
- Discover Rewards Premium Plus: 2.15% + 10¢
- Mastercard World Elite: 2.3% + 10¢
You can plainly see that Discover tends to be more expensive than Visa but is cheaper than Mastercard. The only reason I could see that someone might refuse Discover is because Discover cards are all rewards credit cards that go into the higher tiers, whereas many Visa and Mastercard cards are debit cards which go into the lowest tier.
What is a regulated debit card?
A card which is subject to central bank regulations regarding the interchange fees which they are allowed to charge. According to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act 2011, the Federal Reserve has the power to limit debit card interchange fees for debit cards issued by large banks with over $10 billion in assets. A “regulated debit card” issued by a bank subject to the regulation is therefore tariffed at the maximum rate allowed by the regulation, which is 0.05% plus 22 cents.
Thanks, curious about this too.
The small retailer I worked for didn’t take Discover. We took Amex though, because it was high-end and wealthy people love their Amex.
Editing to clarify, had to dash off before: wealthy people love their extra-thick Amex Black Card made of titanium or whatever, that we used to have to type in by hand because it would damage the old slide readers. So as long as we were taking those we took regular Amex cards too.
amex is taken in 9 out of 10 places when I use it. it’s usually small places that don’t take it
over here, the extra cost that comes from handling cash is enough that small businesses don’t want to take it. counting till every day adds up.
Surprisingly not in the US. If you make 100 sales a day of $20 each, then over a six-day week, you’d pay roughly $360 in credit card transaction fees (assuming 2.5% + 10¢ per transaction which is average). If you instead spent half an hour a day counting cash in the till and then half an hour at the end of the week to go to the bank, that’s about $98 in labour cost (assuming a labour cost of $28 per hour, which is roughly $25 per hour in wages and $3 per hour in tax), so the savings are $262 per week, which is not insignificant.
yeah that 10¢ is 10x our transaction cost.
I used to do that, but here (Australia) passing on surcharges has sadly been normalised, and during covid heaps of businesses went cashless.
The salt in the wound is that there’s not really any reason for businesses to push payment gateways for a better deal. They don’t give a shit any more as they just pass it into the customer.
Some American states (not mine) have banned surcharging for credit cards in response to consumer backlash. But what’s not banned is marking up everything by 3% and then offering a 3% cash discount.
I’m nice to others.
“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” - Elon Musk
That’s how you know empathy is important. It apparently affects the rich’s bottom line. Plus, you know, if you have a brain, empathy is just a given…
We buy almost nothing new except consumables. I could spend an hour, probably two, showing you around our house and pointing out all the things I made, found on the road, bought used or was given, etc. Our vehicles are 2002, 2004 and 2014.
Not sure we’ve ever bought Christmas stuff. Our house is lit up like none other on the block this year. Wife toted home a milk crate packed with lights the other day, free. The nice tree in the living room? No idea where it came from, sure didn’t buy it at Walmart.
Tried a new coat today my wife got for $1, had to cut the tags off. Damn it’s soft and warm! Had to make myself stop buying shoes and clothes at the thrift, have way too many.
Just got done making my own soap. Still not curing for some reason. :( Got some borax and will try making my own laundry soap next.
This year I grew loofa sponges. Got at least a year’s supply of scrub pads, kitchen and shower, won’t spend a dime on that shit. I’d have a 3-year supply, but made mistakes learning. I’ll grow next year and probably skip a few years after that harvest. Also, the seeds sell for $5/20 on eBay. I have hundreds, if not 1000+.
That’s super cool, respect.
Hey got any ideas for vinegar? I haven’t searched it online but thought I would ask because its my ultimate cleaning solution
I make kombucha vinegar, it’s basically get a vinegar mother and feed it.
If my early homebrewing days taught me anything, it’s that vinegar is so easy to make you can do it by accident.
I feel like you should probably know where the tree in your living room came from? Did you steal someone’s tree?
I work in ads and I use ad blockers.
I couldn’t stomach working in marketing. Hats off to you. I took a marketing class in college, just felt icky.
I do my best to only promote to keywords with high intent. So people who search for words with the sole purpose to purchase. I avoid doing ads to people who wasn’t looking for someone.
This help me sleep at night.
Gross…
You literally couldn’t pay me enough money to do what you do, and you should feel bad for doing it.
I literally hate ads. I have a adguad at my house that blocks everything and I use a VPN. Because I’m in the industry, I know what they do. Its awful what they are capable of.
I do the same as @jaschen306.
Probably not the same life story, but I started as a Neuroscience PhD escapee (I was pressed by my supervisor to p-hack our results) and at the time, around 2012, this was an easy career to shift to from a scientific background.
I work more specifically in tracking implementation, and you should all become aware that for one year the ToS for the Google Marketing Platform have now allowed the use of browser/device fingerprinting for user identification aimed at remarketing, etc.
I am trying hard to go in-house at a company to work in BI, which is something I would be able to do, but not at the level of other people, since the marketing industry has accepted rejects like me setting the bar very low in order to have an army of people feeding Google and the others people’s data.
But the alternative for me is to be jobless AND careerless.
I suggest companies to evaluate Plausible and Piwik Pro as a solution, but the people they are as marketers have stopped being marketers more than a decade ago, they are just inside jobs planted by Google et al., and they regularly disregard the alternatives.
What’s “BI”?
Business Intelligence
Fair
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, thats why I poop on company time.
Oh I do way more than that.
“Shit on Debra’s desk!”
I’m doing this right now!
I ride my bike everywhere. Don’t buy gas, need no license or insurance, can’t be tracked easily, no parking passes, and I can go where the fuck I want.
Bike is the ultimate freedom vehicle
Always pirate content from large corporations.
I peer pressure many of my friends into using adblockers and other tech stuff that gives them more agency.
Something that I’m especially chuffed with is that a I actually caused a friend to switch to open source software for scientific research. She’s doing a psychology PhD was getting frustrated with the online experiment setup on the no-code experiment builder she had been advised to use. The platform didn’t allow her to input the experiment parameters she needed and she was complaining to me, and so I had a gander at it, out of curiosity.
I expected there’d be some documentation showing how to use the experiment builder, but there was nothing I could find. Everywhere I looked, there were just more sales pitches. It seems that my friend was only using it because the university had a license for it.
I exclaimed that the lack of documentation and features was ridiculous, given that there’s almost certainly an open source equivalent that does more, is free, and almost certainly better documented. I said that flippantly, but then went and researched that. I showed her a few different options and she ended up going for one called PsychoPy.
As one might be able to gather from the name, that’s not a no-code experiment builder, but rather one that uses Python. However, for my friend, this was a feature, not a bug; although she didn’t already know Python, she was keen to learn — “what’s a PhD for if not to learn how to do actual science?”.
I found it quite affirming because I don’t know if she would have had this thought if not for me. I’m very much a jack of all trades, master of none, due to having many different interests and being spread relatively thin between them. I’m a better programmer than the majority of scientists in my field that I’ve known, but probably worse than most people who actually write code for their jobs. However, gaining expertise in the more computery (and in some cases, philosophical) side of science makes me feel like I’ve “diluted” my scientific expertise compared to my peers. It’s nice that this problem was one at the intersection of my knowledge areas.
I have sex with my husband. He’s a man. I stick it to him. Does that count?
Counts!
I mute commercials.
My kids an I make farting noises over them.
Also fuck liberty mutual for their vast ad campaign
Living Spaces is the one that drives me nuts with the woman singing at the end. Plenty others are horrible, but that one in particular just hits a nerve for me.
I see, you must not have heard the Kars 4 Kids commercials before. 10x more annoying than the little Living Spaces jingle. :)
I love doing this.
this just takes more active attention though…why not just watch stuff without ads?
Y’all are seeing commercials? 🏴☠️
I mute live sports, mainly American football.
I’ll pay the extra football package price, but you couldn’t pay me to listen to the play by play.
And I might pay a bit more to hear the crowd noises isolated, with ref announcements, if it was offered.
I distinctly remember that the NFL tried that out once, where they broadcast a game with no announcers. My Dad and I thought it was amazing, but evidently we were far and few between as I recall they only did it the one time.
What I really don’t understand is how they end a football game and then have to sit around for 20 mins rehashing the game they JUST SAW…
“Remember that time the guy caught the ball and then ran?”
“Oh yeah, that was like 10 whole mins ago.”
“That was so good.”
“Yeah.”I’ve been saying this forever! I HATE the pointless idiotic commentary. I would gladly pay a premium to nuke that shit.
I investigated writing a plugin (maybe for plex or jelly fin?) that would filter out the commentary audio, did a little proof of concept on a recorded clip that worked, but then realized that fleshing it out and doing it for a live stream would be a ton of work. Which means I wouldn’t have time to watch football on mute.
My wife and I have recently started muting the tv and streaming local radio announcers for the team. SOOO much more enjoyable.
I pirate my media. The way I see it, I will pull one over on any company I can get away with that would absolutely swindle me given the chance.
You mean you don’t want to give the fascist David Ellison any money?!? Me either :)
Where do you start?
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (inaccessible from lemmy.world due to the instance’s anti-piracy policy)
Is that community blocked on .world? Can’t find any certain info on that, only the list of blocked instances — but Voyager doesn’t show anything in that community.
