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I see you like things that work. We’ve decided that we’ll break it, and sell you the solution. We call it service.

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Them: this is pretty good right? And affordable too!

Me: yeah it’s decent, don’t touch anything

Them: we’ve put in ads

Me: what? I don’t want ads, wtf

Them: bro, totally have you covered. No ads for $12.99 a month

Me: arr matey, don’t worry yerself 🦜🏴‍☠️

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This is why I felt like the best thing we all could do is reject every ounce of advertising we could. Marker up all the billboards. If you’re watching a video and x3 3 minutes ads play, Leave comments about how the product gave you a bad rash. Make it so all these companies remove themselves from spaces we enjoy. It would also help get rid of the fucking content creators trying to be a copy of the latest and greatest channel but instead waters down the internet with the 10000000 clone of the latest and greatest

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I agree. I also think ads do influence us way more than almost anyone would believe or admit. Why else would companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ads without batting an eye. Many products cost as much or less than their ad campaign cost to make.

So I try to avoid ads as much as possible. I haven’t seen or heard an ad in a long time aside from billboards and posters which are basically impossible to avoid.

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Why does winamp now require ads and $12.99/ month to run?! It was free back in 1997!

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Not sure if this is a serious comment, but in case it is, try foobar2k.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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Hmm, sorry my associate was meaning “temporary solution”, about every year you will need a new one. And we are so generous that if you buy two years in advance we will give you a 10% rebate and a big ole sticker with our brand in bold colors on it so you can give us free publicity.

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