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.
Start collecting physical and/or local digital copies of media that you enjoy. Build a library before all the streaming platforms get completely enshitified and the sale of physical media ends.
That’s what I’ve started doing. Blu-ray and DVD are pretty cheap (for now) at the local thrift stores and eBay. Totally worth it for our favorite movies.
It would be technically illegal for me to burn those movies and put them up on a dedicated Jellyfin server running Linux on a 4th gen MicroFF PC where we could stream them from the local lan, kinda like rolling your own totally offline Netflix with slick UI and cross platform support (Mac, android, Linux, windows). It would be cool and I’m sure it would work brilliantly, not that I would know.
I’m not sure of the legality of putting all my CDs on there as well along with copies of e-reader compatible books.
I haven’t left the dock and hoisted the Jolly Roger but I totally understand why one would. Last time I sailed I was not an adult and couldn’t afford all those great C64 games. With the bullshit streaming companies are pulling they deserve what they get.
I was just pumping gas at a random 76 station a couple days ago and the gas pump started blaring ads at me. Like, FUCK OFF! It made me want to go back at night and stab every single one of their pump screens with a screwdriver.
I don’t know if it’s still the case but you used to be able to press the 2nd button down on the right to mute the pump’s audio
It changes based on model but yeah generally holding one of em down mutes it
I pressed all of them and none of them did anything, so I just walked away. I will never go back to that gas station. I’m not going to be held captive to some bullshit advertising.
Obviously they obscure what button combo does it.
Well, I hope the $2 they got for those ads that played while I was pumping gas were worth losing my business forever to them.
- Avoid the internet.
- Pay for services so you’re the customer instead of the product.
- Pirate TV shows and movies if you can’t afford them.
Here is the problem: Even paying will not get you out of ads any longer. You bought a TV, well the manufacturer will show additional ads on it. You paid for Windows or a Mac, well Apple or Microsoft will advertise additional services on it, same with Android (Google services) or IPhone.
Just spending money to be ad free is no longer enough, because companies try to find ways to extract even more money (or information to sell others) from you, now that you have proven to have some. Either be it additional subscriptions or vendor lock in. They never have enough money, they just want all of it.
So to live ad free, you have to avoid using any product with profit interest or research every company you deal with on what its incentives are, which is very hard or impossible for many people.
Here is a tip though, try to find hardware that comes without bundled software, and find open source software to use it with.
Movies and TV shows are absolutely packed full of product placement advertisements.
If this is your level of ad avoidance you need to completely cut yourself off from all society and humans. Full social death.
No tips for physical ads, but you can set up a pi hole and route your home internet through it.
Browsing the web outside of my house now is horrendous. Pihole was the single best addition to my home network.
Adguard or mullvad dns filters, enjoy!
Stop using social media, go hike, and go somewheres you enjoy that has lots of new faces.
Stay off the internet.
