Just trying to live with as little advertising as possible and curious what tips or tricks the community has aside from moving out to a cabin in the woods.

I can’t really get away from road side advertising for now. Public sporting events are completely infected, and for the ads I am forced to see I try to make a conscious effort not to buy their goods or services. I won’t subscribe to a streaming service if they have a sub+ad tier, if they’re separate free with ads or sub no ads I’ll support it.

Not really for any moral stance, but ad blockers are good at avoiding malware and some services are basically broken if you have to wait for an ad network, and I just feel mentally healthier in general without the extra propaganda.

  • @meco03211
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    73 months ago

    I started blocking ads on Facebook. Even ones I might be interested in at some point. I mean every single fucking ad I would hide, block that specific ad, block a user page or something of relevant, and then report the fucking lot of them. It takes a little while, but eventually you get zero ads (for some time). They will of course refresh their ad campaigns and push new stuff occasionally. A simple hide-block-report and it gets cleaned up again in short order.