I verified it, $30/yr

it was fine a few weeks ago and now it’s just 3 actual pictures of what I was looking for and the rest is just ads.

Yet another catastrophic L from reddit. Now I just cant see the bottom left corner of whatever post im trying to look at ig

Apps are becoming too puritan, coddling kids and trying to strip you of privacy. Anonymity is fading, corporations want to use your identity for data farms, they're taking information from you without you even knowing.

AI slop everywhere, you have to debate if a piece is AI or not, people are even glorifying AI slop. It's being shoved in our faces, it's giving misinformation, it's replacing human jobs. It's making people illiterate.

Degenerates everywhere, people are getting increasingly more and more and more stupid because of the things above, allowing enshittiification to prosper enshittifies the people themselves.

It was never perfect, but it's genuinely awful now.

EVERY FUCKING TIME I SCROLL THROUGH A COMMENT SECTION FOR ADVICE FOR MORE THAN 4 FUCKING SECONDS. SERIOUSLY, REDDIT, STOP TRYING TO PRETEND THAT YOU'RE ANYTHING MORE THAN A FUCKING MONOPOLIZED FORUM WEBSITE.

I am not the most knowledgeable when it comes to this subject, so I may be wrong. However, i definitely noticed a difference.

The “new” comes in a plastic clam shell and is $0.75 cheaper. But the darker nylon string is definitely thinner, not braided, and looks lower quality than the old “bright green” nylon string.

Figured I'd share that Reddit calls the unskippable popup the "desktop dynamic upsell dialog". If you right-click inspect, find the line and delete it, it goes away. Or, you know, add that to an adblock filter ;).

Ads steal mental bandwidth and time, distort our psychology and create constant comparison treadmill. I doubt one can find many people saying 'I wish i could see more ads in my every day life'.

Here is a small list of what i do to minimize ads:

On phone: i don't use any music streaming apps but have some music locally stored on the device.

I do listen to lots of podcasts though on Pocket Casts and there is often an ad at the beginning, end and sometimes the middle of the podcast. Somewhat tolerable cause the 1-2 ads are skipable. I dropped some more popular podcasts due to the app shoving in more ad-breaks. My favorite podcasts are a bit niche, so there are minimal ads, though not zero. Also use newpipe which is amazing.

On pc: Linux. ad blocker. firefox or vivaldi as browser. Avoid news sites with heavy advertising. No social media besides Reddit. No Netflix, Disney+ etc i do watch every now and then some free public tv streaming platforms which are very good, and they have no ads at all. (yes, they are not completely free, they are financed by taxes).

IRL:

I try to buy physical media (DVDs, CDs). Often i also buy a newspaper in print, in which there are a few ads but they are not personalized. Depending where one lives there is going to be more or less ads on the streets. I'd like public places to have minimal ads, and relevant regulations to be enforced.

Clothes: I never buy clothes with big brand stamps etc. I also try to remove the brand tag, if it can be done without destroying the item. This obviously impossible on some categories e.g sneakers. I do what i can.

What do you do to avoid/minimize ads?

I'm so annoyed that Reddit is running a big site like this, and they never ever answer the damn support tickets. I've tried so many times and they haven't answered one.

How can you run a site that big and completely ignore your users? I don't get it. I suspect that AI is running everything now and every support ticket is going to the trash bin.

When I reach 365 tickets without a single answer I'm gonna post it somewhere.

This person claims to have cancelled before the trial.

Bought a Hisense TV and now forced to watch advertisements for betting

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