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if you devalue trans people in any way, including nb people, please block me

I respectfully request that you not refer to me using slurs

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Just one more pack of Flarp

I can quit anytime

BruceTwarzen, to asklemmy

Is there a Spotify alternative that has no ads?

I pay for Spotify for 7 years or so now and i'm so sick of all the ads. After every update there seems to be an: oops, sorry, you have ads now. Podcasts are filled with ads. I was just listening to a podcast where they shoved in 3 ads mid-sentence. How long until musicians put ads in their songs. I'm just so sick of it.

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I second Spotube. I actually do pay for Spotify, but I’ve considered moving to Spotube entirely. I was really impressed when I tried it.

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Ok so if you connected your Spotify account, then it should have your saved playlists and so forth in your library. You can stream or even download these tracks, just like with Spotify Premium. You should also be able to create new playlists/save content to your library.

It even has some features that Spotify doesn’t have. For example, you can totally block specific artists. So like for me, I fucking hate The Dwarves, and Spotify always recommends them to me. On Spotube, I was able to block them. (I’d have to refresh my memory on how.)

The catch is, it doesn’t use actual content from Spotify at all. Instead, it grabs these tracks from YouTube’s API. At least, that’s how it worked when I used it. If you try to download too much content at once, it will make you confirm that you understand that your ISP or someone might notice and take action, so … download judiciously, I guess?

I usually have a pretty solid mobile data connection, so I never bothered with downloading.

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Seeing RiF makes me feel a bit nostalgic

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Same. A lot of the nice little people in my phone, I met on RiF

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Don’t do it

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Except sites deliberately break themselves if they can’t harvest your data. You can’t even browse reddit on Tor anymore.

Even merely using Fennec on my phone, I encounter shopping sites where I actually plan to spend money refuse to work because they can’t recognize “my device.” Or they refuse to sell me products where I live if I’m using a VPN. Creepy-ass behavior.

I suppose the only way out is through, and we should simply refuse to use sites that are designed in such a way, but it feels like a losing battle.

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What do you consider the other two big ones? Auto Zone and NAPA?

Just curious because there are so many auto parts stores where I live

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I forgot about O’Reilly!

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How could I forget this jingle

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Has it, though? I grew up in the 80s, and I feel like I simply didn’t have a clue how ignorant people were or what batshit things people believed behind closed doors. Even when people disclosed to me their inner narrative, I feel like I just assumed they were joking or using extreme hyperbole.

The internet has made me realize … they weren’t joking. At all. They really believe that shit.

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I’m ABORTION

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New Masters of the Universe hero dropped

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Horses are also privacy friendly, unlike your smart car

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However, pony express is somewhat less secure than email

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I find it takes no energy to hate him, so I’ll continue doing so; but I agree that prison violence should not be glorified, under any circumstances, no matter who is the target. I don’t care about Chauvin’s wellbeing, but prison violence is yet another symptom of the same systemic issue that caused Chauvin to murder Floyd. ACAB, and so is the entire “justice” system.

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I can’t believe 9gag is still up and running

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One of my co-workers does this from her office. I pretend I have really bad hearing and don’t ever respond, but she persists.

Thankfully, my husband and I are pretty good about actually approaching each other. If I ever heard my husband call me from another room, I’d know it’s an emergency.

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I get that sometimes, but I always win the war of attrition

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Not all of us are obese, and the obesity epidemic has more to do with daily overconsumption of calories from things like soda and other sugared beverages than it does with eating cool whip on your pumpkin pie once a year

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My co-worker goes to google.com and types URLs into the search field, sometimes not even the correct URL (e.g., when she’s trying to sign into her Zoom account, she’ll search for “zoom.com”)

I’ve tried gently persuading her to try typing it in the address bar, but then she will mistype it and tell me, “See, it’s not working!” and I’d like to show her how to use bookmarks and try to make her life a lot easier, but she insists she knows what she’s doing and isn’t having it.

Sadly, she’s also fallen prey to numerous obvious scams, including a pig butchering scam that drained her resources for years.

I’d really like to find a way to teach some basic tech literacy to older people. I’ve been able to help my parents recognize scams at least, but some people are aggressively unwilling to learn new things.

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www.wired.com/story/what-is-pig-butchering-scam/

Long-term type of romance scam so called because the scammer is “fattening the pig for slaughter,” building trust until they have drained the victim of everything they have.

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I have burn in on my s8+

Time to ditch #duckduckgo (lemmy.world)

In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened....

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You can do it that way if you grab that URL from the “cookies” section. Otherwise, it can save your preferences in a cookie.

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Good question! I wish I knew, but unfortunately this is outside the scope of my knowledge. Someone on !privacyguides could probably tell you immediately

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