I opened youtube on a corporate PC the other day - viewing ads on the platform for the first time in I don’t even know how long, at least 8 years, probably a fair amount more - and was immediately repulsed. How do people live like this? I don’t understand it either.

Pihole, revanced, sponsor block, ublock, … Essential tools to access the Internet. My phones permanently connected to a self-hosted vpn that keeps it behind pihole wherever I am.

I swear god; If I ever look up at the night sky and see a billboard shining down at me from space, I’m bombing my nearest Google office.