rules for thee, but not for me (or those who give me money)

We are living in the state of Fuck it.

pretty much sums it all up right there.

and you could change him into something else. links the cat was mine.

real-life clickwrap.

‘kindly recite the full text of the terms of service before i choose whether push the button or punch your face’

i nuked my post history and haven’t logged-in to ‘that site’ in about two years. there is one sub i lurk in occasionally that hasn’t gained any traction on the lemmy equivalent. that’s it other than the (relatively infrequent) pointer to a post from a web search for which no other alternative was listed.

there is mv3 version of ubo here:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

dunno how well it works on yt, though. i use dlp on a pc for the time or two a month i ‘need to’ look at a yt vid.

adguard’s free browser extension is also mv3 compliant (for chrome). i think the old adblockplus (disable ‘acceptable ads’ and ignore offer to ‘upgrade’ to a paid version) is, too.

i can’t afford to be choosy, it’s whatever i got. whatever was on sale. whatever generic or store brand is cheapest. never jelly, though, unless it’s homemade. always jam or preserves. right now it’s from aldi with bread from the regional gas station chain.

but i will not ever again use walmart ‘great value’ peanut butter. the ‘new’ recipe introduced in the last year (along with the new ‘smaller’ 16oz jar that is really just the same exact size jar as the 18oz jar, just filled less) is worse-than-dollar-store trash.

2016, too. literally a convicted felon 34 times over from efforts to illegally influence that election.

here when i search for something or someone ‘newsworthy’ i get links to other sites ahead of msn, those links do go to the expected sites, and the favicons (that are all msn in the posted image) are also correct. in fact, only one first page out of the five searches i tried even had an msn link at all–at #9.

too often. but at least they’re $50-80 flippers and not $1000 slabs.

shit-filled and a huuuuge splash radius.

“86” means “ged rid of”, not kill.

the latter could be denoted by 18747.

i just finished a single month here, first one in a couple years. ran out of stuff by week three. it’ll be at least another 2-3 years before another binge month, if i ever go back at all.

they already make significantly more profits off of each ad-tier sub than they do the ad-free… yet it still isn’t enough. greedy fucking bastards.

already not looking forward to the next updates on a few systems.

we could have had bob or clippy instead of ‘cortana’ or ‘copilot’

you mean, doin’ what microsoft and their ai ‘partners’ do to others?

Also, as Microsoft appears to have recognized scraping for AI training as a problem, are you seizing your own scraping activities on public code and the larger web or is this a case of double standards?

that is not an acceptable ‘solution’ and opens up an entirely different and more significant can o’ worms instead.

i’ve hit it many times so far… even as quick as the second page view (first internal link clicked) after more than a day or two since the last visit (yes, even with cleaned browser data or private window).

it’s fucking stupid how quick they are to throw up a roadblock.

Move fast and break things

that’s really all they were after. fuck the system up and destroy as much as possible before anyone can stop them…

bonus points if something trashed benefited or supported women, lgbtq, immigrants, or anyone not white and male, in any way.

extra bonus points if campaign mega-donors or the ultra-wealthy or administration officials can personally profit off the destruction.