• ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idM
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      29 days ago

      I felt like a right noobie when one of my colleagues said he’d got a Pixel tablet via the Play Store and asked him how he’d won it.

      Apparently I don’t install and play shittons of games like them.

      £500 was tempting to look into it further but as you say, that news pissed me off because I now know my mum is gonna install some bullshit that one of those guys might have picked up on.

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        29 days ago

        Reading this made me think about the amount of trackers your friend had in his phone during this process…

        • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idM
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          29 days ago

          Yep yep I bought a family member a couple of those fancy GLi routers that come with AdGuard built in.

          It’s scary what a household’s tracked without it would look like, and they are none the wiser to the shit getting sinkholed to this day thankfully.

          I’m down to 10% bollocks via NextDNS

          and aim to bring it down further by dumping any apps/services that want to bum fugg me.

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            28 days ago

            When I used to use Firefox forks on my mobile, ublock once blocked nearly 10k thing in a month or less … this was such a surprise to me …

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        28 days ago

        That hardware giveaway thing is only available in couple of countries right now, US being one. Otherwise, one can be a Platinum member in other parts of the world and they would get nothing.