sirfancy

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[–] sirfancy 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They don't have a choice for some countries. If the item costs more to ship to somewhere and inport than it does to make it, then by selling the item they are losing money and it makes no sense to sell.

[–] sirfancy 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can understand frustration with a product not being available in your region, but wouldn't the anger be better directed at the transportation companies pricing up int'l trade and governments with import taxes and such? I don't totally understand the general sentiment that companies should sell products at a loss just to get it everywhere.

I'm not trying to defend companies or anything, I just never understand why they're the first to blame.

[–] sirfancy 4 points 1 year ago

The Wheel. C'mon, can you imagine

[–] sirfancy 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Just don't come back crying "how could anyone let this happen?!" and begging for help when the hens come home to roost.

Can you elaborate on what doomsday scenario you're referring to? I don't hear many arguments outside of "Google bad, they're gonna do a bad thing" without any evidence or description of what the big bad event is gonna be. And before you say "they sell your data," I know. So does literally everyone else. And I have no intention of living off the technological grid to mitigate that.

[–] sirfancy 1 points 1 year ago

Free adblock DNS sells your data, and I'm not interested in paying for it.

[–] sirfancy 1 points 1 year ago

I'm really just looking for a link to a game I can send my partner and not have to deal with getting an adblocking web browser or any other adblocking infrastructure.

[–] sirfancy 3 points 1 year ago

I will look at this, thank you

[–] sirfancy 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for an actual suggestion and not just saying I should get adblock, I will look into it.

[–] sirfancy 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They literally just gave Yahtzee a new segment. Actually unreal. Hope they find a new better job soon, we all know how talented they are.

[–] sirfancy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Paid ad-free, there are lots of options

Can you name some? I don't want to go the adblock route for reasons mentioned in another comment

[–] sirfancy 5 points 1 year ago

It's the cluttered, overly monetized apps that are the problem, not the ads. Adblock won't stop the pop-ups or banner ads, they'll just make them blank. Plus free adblock DNS are sketchy, and I'm not about to pay for one.

[–] sirfancy 12 points 1 year ago

It didn't work for Reddit, it won't work for Lemmy. All it does is incentivize bots to spam AI-generated comments and posts before they launch their campaign of whatever malicious links they intend to spam. It delays the goal at the expense of an influx of a bunch more garbage posts. Might as well ban them right when they post the malicious links or whatever.

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