Wait, how does Google make money off of paywalled contents?

My general approach to this tends to be to identify what makes me happy in life, splurge on those, save on everything else. For example, I love computers, so I’d splurge on parts, but religiously meal prep to save on food.

It doesn’t make sense too, like it’s bad enough even if just one died.

Even ignoring the surveillance aspect of ads, which I could go on a massive rant about, Google and other ad platforms themselves doesn’t seem to care about harming people with malvertising and scam ads. Why should I care about their revenue?

Are adblockers even illegal? I didn’t think it was.

Time to poison their data, I guess.

Neat, thanks! Makes me even more grateful that I decided to switch.

Is GrapheneOS affected?

Even if they do remove them from the official stores, you can always go straight to the source and sideload it.

I feel like common knowledge of all the shit big tech companies have pulled throughout their history is sufficient justification for giving massive fines.

Wish GDPR had the same kind of teeth.

Imagine banning books, at all. Sure doesn’t sound horrificly authoritarian to me /s

As it very well should be. Fuck Google.

I agree with the sentiment, but I think it’s important to remember that it’s the employers we should be mad at, not the employees.

You’re not wrong.

Who the fuck is downvoting this?

My use case isn’t too complicated, so your mileage may vary, but from my experience of using distros like Fedora (though I hesitate to recommend it due to Red Hat’s recent bullshit), it is no less usable than Windows (and it runs faster too, partly thanks to the evident lack of spyware). From what I’ve heard, games without egregious anticheat works fine under Proton as well. You could always set up a Windows VM inside Linux too (Chris Titus has some excellent guides on setting up QEMU/KVM) if you need to but I never needed to so far. Tldr, Linux is as simple or complex as you need to be.

Windows is spyware that you pay for, and that’s reason enough for me. I hate Google too, but I have to at least admit that they at least give you pretty good free stuff in exchange for being spyware (at least that was the case the last time I used any of their products anyways, been quite a while since and given the current enshittification of many big tech platforms, wouldn’t be all too surprised if they followed suit).

I really don’t see how adblockers would ever be illegal, that sounds like an absolute dystopia.

well, that’s the centralised implementation, which i also don’t like. iirc there’s a decentralised implementation where, instead of tracking your location and sending it to a central server, each device would have a uuid. whenever you come near someone, both of your devices would just swap uuids and take note of them, and if either of you catches covid, they can just open that list of collected uuids and use that to notify the people who came into contact with them. imo not only is this more privacy-friendly, but it saves infrastructure costs from not having to host centralised servers.