You know the ads have gotten ridiculous when the advertising company says “hey, maybe we ought to cool it a little.”

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Yeah, could very well be. But corporations gonna corporate. If you don’t like the product, don’t buy it.

Five dollars’ increase. FFS

Pretty sure I can soak it. I mean that’s what, five bucks a month? If that’s a hardship, kill the subscription and get a goddamn library card.

Good. This is just theater for the knuckle-dragging Republican base anyway. The dems who went along with it can eat a bag of dicks.

Because broken as they are, people still come first before AI. Or they should, anyway.

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If this country actually goes for Trump a second time, then fuck the lot of you. You get what you deserve. I’ll be fine, but I’ll be done worrying about the rest of you. If you’re that fucking stupid then you deserve what you get.

That’s the most selfish shit. That’s people you’re talking about burning to the ground.

In what universe would Trump be a better alternative?

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And then they wonder why their sales are tanking, when it turns out AI’s can’t buy their products and everyone else is too poor to even consider it.

This seems deeply, disturbingly fucked up. “Fuck working with real people, who have their own goals and desires out of a career, we’re just gonna use an AI since no one can tell the difference.” It’s fucked up on multiple levels, not least since the fashion industry was already full of broken people before AI hit the scene.

Until people stop bitching about reposts.

If for some reason you can’t use a full-on ad blocker, “SponsorBlock for Youtube” is another Firefox extension you can install. It doesn’t block ads per se, but it will auto-skip segments of a video that have been reported as ad content. Kind of a grassroots thing, like reporting cops on Waze.

Hopefully this motivates a competitor to emerge.

There’s a case to be made for criminal negligence resulting in loss of life.

The article gives the game away. Just change your user agent and you’re golden.

Big same.