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How many communities do you have blocked?
(lemmy.world)
30ish
I don't know, but it's mostly memes and gay stuff.
None, the insanity I sometimes encounter can be entertaining. I'll just log off if its too much.
Here? Not many, I sub to things I find interesting and browse my subscribed feed.
Reddit? Hundreds of subreddits if not more. If it's full of rage or engagement bait, intolerance or it's a community devoted to punching down I've probably blocked it.
I've blocked 10 or so instances and over 500 individual communities. Mostly by browsing /new and just killing anything I don't have the slightest interest in.
The instances I've blocked are leftist, furry, porn and anime related, plus one that's hosting sports communities exclusively.
No specific communities, just the entire instance of hexbear.net (lemmygrad.ml is already blocked on my instance)
hexbear, lemmygrad and all news communities. Also turn off the NSFW post.
Only these 2:
Because they:
- Spam up your feed
- Spread depressing content (since it attracts more attention thus earns them more)
- Try to manipulate you
Earns them more what? There are no ads here unless you locked yourself into an app that pushes them.
Each article,
links to a news site,
which is riddled with data trackers,
which collects info about you,
which is sold.
In addition the sites contain advertisements.
The 'them' in your first comment was pretty obviously about the lemmy admins on those servers profiting from doom scrolling. Now you are talking about "news" sites selling your data.
This sounds like something you made up to not be wrong. It is ok to be wrong. Just incorporate the new info and move on.
How do you think news sites earn money?
They do not provide that content for free,
you are their product of which they benefit.
I use NoScript,
which tells me about each JavaScript piece a website has, most if not all of them contain trackers (= data collection).
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