The funny thing is, I’m nearly certain that it’s opt-in for their benefit (i.e. legal reasons) and not because it benefits the content creator, because it really doesn’t benefit the content creator at all! “Here’s my work. Do what you like with it, and don’t worry about paying.”.

And if you’re a content creator, you can opt in to allow your content to be used by AI… Without compensation. 🤡

As long as you can run the adguard browser extension in a mobile browser, then you can add new elements to block.

But if that’s not an option, you can create those rules on a desktop browser, then add them to Adguard on mobile (the app, not the browser extension).

As long as you have the rules in a filter list, it’ll work anywhere. These amazon specific sanitation rules may already be available on public adblocking lists, and in that case, they could work regardless of the adblocking app being used.

I’m using Adguard, but most will have element blocking as a feature.

Basically, I select “block ads on this website”, and I click on the element. A small box comes up where I can fine tune the selected element (I usually do this to get cleaner results), then I preview and confirm the setting.

I’m able to then take that filter, and use it pretty much anywhere else that I use adguard (Android phone, another computer, etc.). It’s awesome.

But like I said, most adblockers will have this feature, including the popular ublock origin. It might just be under a different name.

You can do this for any website :)

I’ve custom tailored my Amazon experience using my adblocker to delete pretty much any element that doesn’t serve me.

This includes any and all ads, “recommended” items, “customers also bought…” listings, banners for their business account, and anything that isn’t specifically relevant to the item I’m looking at.

I can’t image using it vanilla. They’d lose my business.

Just tried Grayjay on desktop last night. Syncing with mobile is awesome.

But on desktop, I’ll continue to use freetube because i can block channels (or even content by keyword) from showing up on my feed.

If you only watch content that you’re sibscribed to, then this shouldn’t even be a concern.

This isn’t “vomit-inducing”, it’s rage-inducing.

If someone can give away 99% of their hoarded wealth, and still be a MULTI BILLIONAIRE, you know that the global community needs to come together and put caps on personal wealth. Taxing them isn’t enough.

Yeah, likely right in front of the doors so she makes sure to poison everyone else, too.

The front of my local hospital always has people smoking, and you’ll always be breathing it in if you’re trying to enter the ER or main entrance or parking lot or the park beside it.

but otherwise it’s local if possible, or direct from the vendor if not.

The problem I find is that local usually means “you’re gonna pay a lot more for the same item you can get shipped for free off Amazon”.

So, who am I benefitting? It’s a horrible consumer dilemma that I hate to be caught up in.

And it’s not even an “Amazon” issue. Our local bike shop, as much as I really do like to support them, sells tires for 2-3x more than what I pay to get them shipped in from an online bike store out of Germany (I’m in Canada!). Supporting local only works when local isn’t trying to screw you over.

Also, check your local library for “creator” services. Our local libraries have 3d printers you can either use, or have them print stuff for you for dirt cheap. Really, really cool service.

Someone should tell them to definitely stay away from Curb Your Enthusiasm (created and starring the co-creator of Seinfeld). It’s like a rated-R version of Seinfeld that has absolutely no boundaries. LOL

This is what happens when you let AI write the job listing. It’s just word salad.

In Texas, owning more dildos than guns is a crime. Probably.

Yeah, I made the unfortunate mistake of taking one when I was unshaved, and totally didn’t look like what I usually do. Regretted it every time I had to show my ID for years until it came up for renewal! I feel your pain!

R.I.P. 😂

I don’t know how big your license photos are, or at what resolution they get printed at… but ours looks like a stamp printed with a dot matrix printer and laminated. You couldn’t tell a zit from an eyeball. LOL

When Canada Post was still alive, this used to happen a lot when using their parcel service.

I would check all available options, because the ones you’d expect to be cheap often ended up being more expensive and take longer to get to the destination, and the cheap options don’t give you perks like free parcel insurance.

OP, I also love how much you save by letting them deliver just a few hours later!

Here’s an interesting interpretation of the strategy in the context of modern, online shopping:

“…while ending‐9 prices exert a sizable impact on shopping cart additions (by nearly 20%), the impact on final purchases is marginal (by less than 4%). A possible reason could be that even if each individual product adopts its ending‐9 price, the cost of the shopping cart (which can involve multiple items) might still not preserve such a pricing structure.”

This “trick” may be easier at the retail level, when the customer really doesn’t know (or can be influenced) by the final total. But as the study suggests, when shopping online, we may fall for the trick initially, but have an easy enough way out to avoid making the final purchase.

Either way, that’s just one form of phycological warfare that retailers use. Online shopping comes with far more opportunities to trick us compared to a brick-and-mortal shop. Always have enough buffers before confirming your order, so you aren’t spending more than you need to (or buying things you don’t need!).

You’d be surprised how well “99” works compared to the whole number. It’s a marketing trick, which is why most items are listed as .99, .98, etc.

I’m not trying to convince someone to quit; that’s up to them to derive enough motivation to do so on their own.

I’m just pointing out that their disgusting habit affects everyone around them, if it’s not killing them through second-hand smoke.

I say this as someone who used to smoke 1–2 packs a day, and WISH that someone told me that I smelled as bad as I did. To me, smoking was never about impacting other people, so having known that, I would have at least been more mindful.