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But it is a perfect source to train spamassassin

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Amolith
the do not call list in the US doesn't even work for me. i added my number a long time ago and still get 3+ calls every single day
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Tim Wu - The Attention Merchants id an interesting read for this topic.
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The list in this country is called the telephone preference service and it's legally enforced! Yet still they call...
@shipp
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It wouldn't be so bad IMO if they made great effort to make their advertisements beautiful and pleasant, but no, they have to be the most obnoxious pieces of garbage the human mind can conjure up. Grr...
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grayrattus
some cities in Europe prohibit ad banners in city centers. It's soo much better to walk through old towns without ads.

You see there is always a way to stimulate mass of people to not do some stupid shit. Sometimes it's activists work and sometimes just the right law.
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The Ipswich Society somehow managed to get advertising billboards banned here some time in the 1980s (previously there were loads, many for cigarettes which were also made in a factory in the town).

This ban still exists today (to the point when I see ad billboards in other towns it seems unusual, although apparently its harder to sell space on billboards nowadays as companies want to use online marketing instead...
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we desperately need to establish new norms about how offensive it is to mess with someone's attention. good ideas and businesses should go viral because people we trust actually think they are worth our attention, not because they are being paid to promote them. so many problems arise from this manipulation.
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It is a normal result of a trade based society. Anything that is traded, is abused and trashed. Resources, people, information, data, attention. Ads are simply an exploitation of the attention trade. It is not a new thing, it was there since the invention of media, but the Internet exacerbates it. By a lot.

As long as the incentive is there, this abuse will always exist....

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Tio
Yes is true you can protect yourself. We added these tools, and more, by default to our TROMjaro Linux actually. But they work simply because they are not that popular. If they'd be and would threaten the trade business of those big platforms, they would make sure these tools are shut down or not work....unfortunately...

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As I recall, you need to re-register with the Telephone Preference Service every year or two. (At least, you used to have to.)

And, of course, it does nothing to deter scam calls. But it does serve to identify them: once you're registered with the TPS, every cold call is illegal and you can be as rude or devious as you like.
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crooks and swindlers the lot of them, they are a scourge on society.
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Yeah, remember when they wanted to ban youtube-dl? And also there used to be a FOSS alternative app for instagram called #Barinsta which removed all of the ads and tracking, even the UI was much better and the entire thing was lightweight. If there was a sane way to use instagram then that was it, but then of course these companies won't allow such things, the development has been shut down due to legal threats from Facebook. More info here - https://austinhuang.me/barinsta.html
@amolith @markusl
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Tio
Works quite well, I've been using it for many years now.
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Soy_Magnus
its a cloudfare service and they've publicly announced they're going to start censoring sites. If u want that go for it but it defeats the purpose of anonimity in searches if they use cloudflare and cloudfare blocks your access to the information your lookin for
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Soy_Magnus
they received no viable threats from any real kiwifarms members I assure u. This was a dedicated attack on many fronts but a person by the name of keffals to disassemble the kiwifarms for front ing him out as a pervert to children. During this attack he also employed someone to "swatt" a well known political personality in the name of the kiwifarms and then called back to tell on themselves when it didn't work. Don't be such a soggy cum bag
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Soy_Magnus
shush little soggy girl, no one cares about ur dumb sissy lala feeling
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Soy_Magnus
look no one cares about ur dumb tranny bullshit just cut it out man