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0 pointsshakna10mo ago0 comments

I block ads, everywhere, because I keep getting epilepsy-inducing ones.

The browser is my agent, just like my screenreader is.

Google is to blame here - and I'm saying that as an author who does advertise there because of marketshare.

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So is your DVD player but it doesn't mean you don't have to pay for the movies

No, but if someone is handing out free DVDs with adverts on them I can put a sticker over the adverts. If the adverts are in the movie, I'm allowed to skip them.

shaknaOP10mo ago

Google are free to ban me, free to not hand me the data. But if I tell them who I am, what agent I'm using, and then they hand me data... I'm also free to throw half that data in the bin.

Especially if I'm protecting myself.

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