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Naming and shaming all "recurring spending models" where a one-time fee (or none at all) would be appropriate and logical.

Expect use of strong language.

Follow the basic rules of lemmy.world and common sense, and try to have fun if possible.

No flamewars or attacking other users, unless they're spineless corporate shills.

Note that not all subscriptions are awful. Supporting your favorite ~~camgirl~~ creator or Lemmy server on Patreon is fine. An airbag with subscription is irl Idiocracy-level dystopian bullshit.

New community rule: Shilling for cunty corporations, their subscriptions and other anti-customer practices may result in a 1-day ban. It's so you can think about what it's like when someone can randomly decide what you can and can't use, based on some arbitrary rules. Oh what, you didn't read this fine print? You should read what you're agreeing to.

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Some other groovy communities for those who wish to own their products, their data and their life:

Right to Repair/Ownership

Some other useful links:

FreeMediaHeckYeah

Louis Rossman's YouTube channel

Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense:

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How Subscriptions RUINED the Internet (and everything else) (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ah, just run things through a pi-hole, run sponsorblock, and it's only costing youtube for you to watch it. I enjoy costing them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol at using the word "just" in your sentence, that can be out of reach for many users here.

Alternatively for less techy people. Just install grayjay: https://grayjay.app/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Tubular and Freetube are two other options. Tubular is a fork of NewPipe with sponsorblock and such added.

Just wanted to add some options for those that may not like GrayJay for whatever reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have you been able to get pi-hole to block Google ads? Mine always fails to update that blocklist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, my kid got pissed at any ads coming through so he updated the blocklists. No ads come through. Here's the list of what is running:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PolishFiltersTeam/KADhosts/master/KADhosts.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Spam/hosts	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt	
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Admiral.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/blacklist/master/adservers.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt	
https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/UncheckyAds/hosts	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigdargon/hostsVN/master/hosts	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Ads.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.2o7Net/hosts	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/spy.txt	
https://hostfiles.frogeye.fr/firstparty-trackers-hosts.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/Alternate%20versions%20Anti-Malware%20List/AntiMalwareHosts.txt	
https://osint.digitalside.it/Threat-Intel/lists/latestdomains.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Crypto.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Risk/hosts	
https://bitbucket.org/ethanr/dns-blacklists/raw/8575c9f96e5b4a1308f2f12394abd86d0927a4a0/bad_lists/Mandiant_APT1_Report_Appendix_D.txt	
https://phishing.army/download/phishing_army_blocklist_extended.txt	
https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-malware.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Malware.txt	
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Phishing.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Spam404/lists/master/main-blacklist.txt	
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AssoEchap/stalkerware-indicators/master/generated/hosts	
https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/downloads/hostfile/	
https://zerodot1.gitlab.io/CoinBlockerLists/hosts_browser	
https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/lists/ads-and-tracking-extended.txt	
https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/abuse.txt	
https://big.oisd.nl/domainswild2	
https://big.oisd.nl/simplednsplusdblpi	
https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/ads.txt

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the lists, I have added them to my gravity in my pihole

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I should have added a little warning. Having all those blocklists active does break a fair amount of the internet, but it's worth it for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

For now, the internet still works for me, I will change the settings if something breaks