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[–] 197 points 2 months ago (26 children)

Half of lemmy who have either been pirating or freebooting since the mid 90's:

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  • [–] 119 points 2 months ago* (18 children)

    I have managed to cut ads out of my life so completely that I am legitimately offended by ads

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  • [–] 42 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    When I go to the office instead of being on my home network with a pihole, and I go to show a website in a meeting, I'm just embarrassed by what shows up because the site didn't look anything like that when I was looking at it previously at home. I legitimately don't know how people actually use websites that are 80% ads

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    After my parents quit smoking, they ended up with this, IDK, "born again nonsmoker" attitude where they were completely disgusted by the smell of cigarette smoke and couldn't stand to be around it at all.

    I have the same attitude about ads.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    My parents quit smoking a few years ago, my mom had tried unsuccessfully to quit a few times, and what finally did it for her was getting a really bad cold during a really bad cold snap so she really didn't want to go outside to smoke. Then since she quit I think my dad just kind of hopped on the bandwagon with her.

    But I remember one time, a year or two later, being at a party at their house with some friends sitting outside, and my one friend who is a smoker lights up, and she told him to come sit next to her because she still really liked the smell.

    So different strokes for different folks I suppose.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I like the smell of certain brands of cigarettes, up close

    when they're further than 3 feet away you lose the enjoyable delicate tobacco scent and can only smell the burnt ass shitty cig smell

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    This! I have ZERO ad tolerance, in any form. Most annoying thing is that you can't get rid of them in podcasts, other than hammering the fast-forward button.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Are u referring to podcasts in spotify? You can circumvent ads here as well by downloading the episode, and then listening to it with wifi/cellular turned off. Or just use a third party website that let's you convert and download an episode into an mp3 file.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I love this idea but nowadays I’m actively looking for commercials in many shows—watching Sealab or Family Guy or Space Ghost or super old Pokémon and the like is infinitely better with original commercials from the late 90s or early 2000s, ripped in mediocre quality from an SP VHS.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    BUY KOOLAID, BUY TOYS R US TOYS, BUY VIDEO GAMES.

    They're ya go, champ.

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