And for those that are able to keep to just one subscription, switching to another when they’ve finished watching whatever show it is that said service had, they aren’t safe either.

One of the next steps that these corporations are going to take is to add fees for dropping their services, with year long contracts.

They don’t want competition, so they will try to force you to stay.

Legalize mad max cars! This murica, any car without a machine gun installed on the hood is for sissy liberals.

Real men run others off the road with their 80,000lbs Ford, with it’s hood 6ft up from the road.

That’s totally fair.

If you lived in my area I’d call you insane though lol. My city has so many hills it’s ridiculous.

On the other hand, EVs typically have regenerative breaking, reducing the wear on brake pads.

Still shit, but partially canceled out.

Good luck with the project!

Thanks!

This is why I’m a fan of vintage steel bikes. They can last multiple lifetimes, and not just a handful of years.

That’s why I’m doing a similar approach. I nabbed a $50 used bike from my local re-use center, and I’m gonna slap a mid drive upgrade kit on it. Worst case if the motor goes it’s replaceable. And the frame itself is never going to break on me.

Hoping to get it upgraded for spring.

So it’s just a coincidence that they ended up killing their competitors? Yeah right.

Then why did they once support XMPP?

I never said defeating them or out competing them should be the goal. The goal should be the survival of services. And corporations will kill these services.

So what?

Keeping users siloed in Facebook’s garden shouldn’t be seen as a win for us.

Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. If people hadn’t federated with google’s XMPP back in the day, google wouldn’t have had the same level of control it had to kill XMPP as a competitor.

We need to learn from the lessons of the past, and the past has resulted in the deaths of services when federating with corporations.

And for those that don’t:

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

You’re missing my point. I am saying that the “free market shall decide” is enough justification to boycott them, regardless of how long ago they were doing shitty things.

I’m aware that’s how it works in practice. I’m saying that even by conservative, capitalist idealism they should have been shut down for being bigots.

What ever happened to the free market deciding? I thought the whole point of capitalism is that if you do awful things your business dies?

They should have lost all of their customers the moment the public found out what they were doing. Some of us aren’t going back to such a business.

Sure they could. But that’s not going to stop me from circumventing their attempts if it is reasonably possible.

Why would I do that when it can be automated with a script that removes HTML and scripts responsible for ads?

I updated my original comment to make it more clear.

if you were able to ascertain with 100% accuracy that an ad was not a security or privacy violation

Security isn't the only part of this.

if viewing ads on your PC had as little potential for harm as viewing ads in the newspaper did, would you still block them?

I basically already do this with the radio. The moment an ad plays, the radio gets shut off. I turn it back on at the next 0 or 5 minute mark and it's over.

Advertisers do not have a right to force me to listen. The same applies for internet ad blocking. One of these is just automated.

therefore it kinda is piracy.

It's not an illegal form or copying though. It's the equivalent or turning off the radio when an ad comes on, then turning it back on once it's over.